University of Wisconsin-Madison
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am an economic, environmental, and urban sociologist interested in questions of stratification and decision making. Empirically, I study residential mobility and immobility, housing costs and housing market intermediaries, and how climate change is impacting housing markets more generally. In my work, I employ various methods and …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Alternate Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: Carlson’s primary research interests center on the associations between family contexts and the wellbeing of parents and children. She has explored the changing composition of families and aspects of their functioning. Her early work explored how family structure was associated with child …
Home Page Department of Community & Environmental Sociology More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Dr. Katherine J. Curtis is Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work is centered in demography and extends to spatial, environmental, rural, and …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Alternate website Biography RESEARCH INTEREST STATEMENT: My research focuses on survey research methodology, identifying sources of errors produced in the process of gathering standardized measurements and developing and implementing methods to reduce those errors. This work includes projects supported by extramural funding from NSF and NIH and examines three …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Website Biography Research Interest Statement: I study the politics of personal data and the consequences of becoming visible to—and being managed by—contemporary state institutions of care and social control. My work combines qualitative archival research with computational methods, including text analysis, network analysis, and statistical modeling. Recently published …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Felix Elwert, Ph.D., is a scholar of social inequality, social demography, and applied statistics. He develops methods of causal inference and conducts research on the contextual drivers of inequality, income, education, and health. Ever on the lookout for ways to coax causality from data, Elwert collaborates with …
More information Curriculum vitae Additional online resource Personal website Biography Research Interest Statement: Engelman’s research combines perspectives from the social sciences and public health to examine the social determinants of health and longevity. She is particularly interested in how social stratification (by socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, nativity, and geography) manifests in health and mortality inequities. Engelman is the …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Education: Ph.D., Sociology University of California-Berkeley, 1995 Departmental Areas of Interest: Demography and Ecology, Education, Methods and Statistics, Social Stratification Classes: Soc 360 Statistics for SociologistsSoc 496 Topics: Population and Society in Contemporary RussiaSoc 633 Social StratificationSoc 923 Social StratificationSoc 952 Log-linear, latent class, and finite mixture models.Soc 971 Migration and Migrants Other Campus Affiliations: Center for Demography …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Grant’s current research focuses on gender inequalities in early life course transitions–primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, with a focus on how increasing educational attainment and the HIV/AIDS epidemic influence other domains of life during the transition to adulthood. These interests have led to her most …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies, co-director of EdSHARe (Education Studies for Healthy Aging Research, an umbrella that includes the national cohort studies High School and Beyond and the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972) and Co-Director of the Madison Education Partnership, a research-practice partnership between the …