University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Alberto Palloni has been elected as the 2019 Laureate of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). This is a lifetime achievement award for contributions to the advancement of Population sciences and distinguished service provided to the IUSSP. Alberto will receive this award in a ceremony April 10, 2019 at 5:30pm, …
Assistant Professor Jordan Conwell discusses his research that examined how children of different races and genders, but from the same family income, fare in early educational measures in a podcast created with the UW–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty.
In it’s annual issue to feature “artists, innovators and thinkers” who died in the past year, The New York Times Magazine included a tribute to UW–Madison’s Department of Sociology alumnus, Devah Pager. The piece was written by Matthew Desmond, also an alumni of the department and who had previously been a colleague in the Department …
Associate Professor Michael Light’s article “Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Violent Crime?” published in the journal Criminology was the most popular article viewed of Wiley’s Sociology publications.
With the deaths of Barbara and George H. W. Bush being just eight months apart, the “widowhood effect” has been in the news. Professor Felix Elwert was interviewed by the Huffington Post about the loss of a spouse and health.
With prison inmates in California getting paid $1-an-hour for fighting fires, Wisconsin Public Radio explored the history of prison labor in America and the controversy that surrounds it. Associate Professor John Eason was the guest of the show and provided his view as a sociologist.
Devah Pager, a professor of sociology and public policy at Harvard University and a UW Sociology alumnus (PhD 2002), died on November 2, 2018. Devah was a highly respected researcher who examined racial discrimination in the labor market and in the criminal justice system. As a graduate student, Devah volunteered with a housing program for …
The Association for Jewish Studies has selected Professor Chad Goldberg’s book Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, as the finalist for the 2018 Jordan Schnitzer Book Prize in the category of Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore. Congratulations Chad!
Curtiss Engstrom and Ningyuan Ma, undergraduate students in the Sociology Department’s Concentration in Analysis and Research (CAR), had valuable internships this past summer which allowed them to apply knowledge and skills gained from CAR courses in research settings. Curtis was a fellow at the highly competitive University of Michigan-University of Maryland-Westat Joint Program in Survey …