Sociology PhD Student Graduation Celebration 8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building Friday, May 10 2:00pm – 4:30pm
Join us for this recognition of PhD students that takes place before the UW–Madison commencement at 5:30pm in the Kohl Center.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Join us for this recognition of PhD students that takes place before the UW–Madison commencement at 5:30pm in the Kohl Center.
Congratulations to these graduate students for having their teaching recognized! University Housing residents identified Maria Azocar, Kaan Jittiang, and Abby Letak as Outstanding classroom instructors. The College of Letters & Science chose Miriam Barcus for a Teaching Fellow Award. The Sociology Department’s Evaluation & Improvement of Instruction Committee selected Jungmyung Kim and Benny Witkovsky to …
Congratulations to Professor Mike Massoglia for being part of a Cluster Hire team who was selected for funding by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). An interdisciplinary group of investigators will conduct research that addresses individual and interpersonal aspects of sexual violence. They will also research legal and policy approaches to sexual violence. Read more…
It’s quite a challenge to summarize one’s thesis in 3-minutes! This contest, held by the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS), was won by graduate student Sarah “Frankie” Frank. She presented her research on Queering Menstruation.
Second-year graduate student Julia Thomas has been awarded a 3-year NSF fellowship for her project that examines whether, when, and how contemporary capital punishment operates as “legal lynching” in the United States. Congratulations Julia!
Sociology graduate student Sarah “Frankie” Frank’s paper “Queering Menstruation: Trans and Genderqueer Identity and Body Politics” has been selected as the first place winner in this year’s Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) Graduate Paper Competition. This award will be presented at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in New York City this summer.
Erik Olin Wright, Vilas Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, passed away on January 23, 2019 at age 71. There will be a memorial for Wright and a celebration of his life and work on August 9th, 7.30-9.30p.m, in New York at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. He was highly …
The Midwest Sociological Society’s Book Award Committee selected Professor Chad Goldberg’s book Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought as the winner of the 2018-19 Distinguished Book Award. Congratulations Chad!
The UW–Madison granted more doctorates than any other U.S Institution in 2017, according to the Survey of Earned Doctorates. Another survey found that UW–Madison graduate alumni felt that their program prepared them well for their careers. Sociology Department alumnus Jessa Lewis Valentine, (PhD 2015), states “My experience with the Interdisciplinary Training Program in the Education …
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy, a UW–Madison think tank lead by Professor Joel Rogers, just released a study which shows that if the state of Wisconsin could reduce it’s use of fossil fuels, the state economy would benefit.