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Focus is the Institute for Research on Poverty’s online collection of brief essays summarizing current poverty and policy research for non-researchers. Each issue is accompanied by Focus+, a college classroom resource, which includes additional information and web links. John’s essay, “Understanding the effects of the U.S. prison boom on rural communities” is part of the …
We are sorry to share the news that Sandy Ramer passed away on November 12th. Sandy was the Sociology Department’s graduate advisor from 1983 – 2010. She was adored by many faculty members and graduate students. Russ Middleton included a glowing tribute to Sandy’s work in his book on the history of the department (which …
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies, Jordan Conwell, recently participated in the Fall Colloquium Series at the Population Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Watch his talk, “Race, Gender, Higher Education, and Socioeconomic Attainment: Evidence from Baby Boomers at Mid-Life.”
Associate Professor John Eason was interviewed on the Wisconsin Public Television show “Noon Wednesday” about a recent report from 24/7 Wall St that reports Milwaukee and Racine to be ranked the first and second worst places for African Americans to live in the country.
The annual Archibald Haller lecture, “Whose Food, Whose Land? — a conversation on global food sovereignty” is being held on Tuesday November 12 at 7:00 – 8:30pm in the Deluca Room in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Panelists include Department of Community & Environmental Sociology Professor Monica White and Sociology alumna Sarah Lloyd who earned …
On Wednesday October 30 at 12:15pm Eviatar Zerubavel, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, will present the Department of Sociology Colloquium in room 8417 in the Sewell Social Sciences Building. His talk is titled: “Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology.” Professor Zerubavel’s main areas of interest are cognitive sociology and …
Benny Witkovsky, a Sociology graduate student, is the guest speaker at “Forward? The Wisconsin Idea, Past and Present” free lecture series on Tuesday October 22 from 6:00pm – 7:15pm in the Benetic-Biotechnology Center Building, 425 Henry Mall, Room 1111. His talk is titled “The Local Periphery: Small Cities and the Politics of Exclusion.”
A research article written by Professor Michael Light and graduate student Julia Thomas was discussed this fall on an episode of The Weeds podcast. Skip to 47:22 for the paper, “Segregation and Violence Reconsidered: Do Whites Benefit from Residential Segregation?”
Myra Marx Ferree, Professor Emerita, was recently interviewed about the nation state, gender and intersectional feminism for The Europe Desk podcast, produced by the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University. Myra was visiting the BMW Center as part of their lecture series “A Century of Women’s Struggle: From the Franchise to …