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Casey Stockstill (Ph.D. 2018) was recently interviewed for the newsletter “Culture Study” by Anne Helen Peterson about her research on race and early childhood care. Stockstill is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver, where she is finishing her book, Unequal Beginnings: Daily Life in Two Segregated American Preschools. The questions that …
Lisa Wade (Ph.D. 2006) will give the Keynote Address “Teaching Sociology after 2020: Sociology in an Unsettled Time” as part of Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society’s “Planning to Teach Post-Pandemic.” The event is June 16, 2021 at 1:00 pm Eastern Time and is free, but attendees must register here. Lisa Wade is an Associate …
Congratulations to Isabel Anadon who has been awarded an American Bar Foundation (ABF) / National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality. She is one of five outstanding scholars from a highly competitive application pool to receive a 2021-22 Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Isabel will study the intersection of punishment and migration with …
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s undergraduate scholarships. Congratulations go out to: Yuxin Liu, Alicia Lorta, Madison Johnson, and Yumeng Wang for receiving the Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship; and Yahvi Mahendra for winning the Andrea Michelle Sperka Sociology Fund. The Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship is an undergraduate scholarship …
Congratulations to Marcy Carlson for receiving a Kellett Mid-Career Award, which recognizes and supports research conducted by faculty members who are seven to twenty years past their first promotion to tenure. Named for the late William R. Kellett, a former president of the WARF board of trustees and president of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the award was …
Congratulations to Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study Michal Engelman who received a Romnes Faculty Fellowship for academic year 2021-22. The Romnes fellowship is named in honor of Haakon Ingolf (H.I.) Romnes, late Trustee and President of the WARF Board. A lifelong friend of the university, his entire career was …
We were deeply saddened by the passing of Franklin Wilson, an exceptional scholar, teacher, mentor, and friend. Obituaries for Franklin can be read here and in ASA Footnotes here. We invite you to save the date to join in a memorial celebration of the life of Franklin Wilson: Saturday, September 25 at 1:00 – 3:00 pm CT University of Wisconsin–Madison Wisconsin …
Governor Tony Evers appointed Kalvin Barrett as the next Dane County Sheriff. Kalvin graduated with a BA from UW Sociology in 2004; he also played football for the Badgers during his time as a student. He has since served as Dane County deputy sheriff and as an officer with the Sun Prairie Police Department, where …
UW Sociology is well represented in In Business Madison’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2021. Congratulations, Kingsley Gobourne and Megan Diaz-Ricks! Kingsley Gobourne is a member of our Board of Visitors. His work at UnityPoint Health — Meriter as their first-ever Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager has garnered attention. Especially notable are his projects that …
Three Sociology faculty members were selected as recipients of the UW’s Understanding and Reducing Inequalities Initiative, which is designed to support research to build stronger bodies of knowledge on how to reduce inequalities. Jason Fletcher, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and Eric Grodsky, Professor of Sociology, are Co-Principal investigators for the project “The Foundational …