University of Wisconsin-Madison
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: My work, which lies at the intersection of cultural sociology, economic sociology, and stratification research, explores the making and unmaking of status hierarchies and how they sustain inequality in society. Empirically, I focus on unsettled fields, uncertain markets, and complex organizations, which …
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 Personal Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: My research focuses on education, families, and health decision-making. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the structures of power and privilege that maintain socioeconomic, racial, and gender inequalities in these settings, as well as the role that qualitative methods can play in uncovering …
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 …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Departmental Areas of Interest: Economic Change and Development, Economic Sociology, Law and Society, Political Sociology Classes: Soc 125 American Society: How It Really Works (Fall 2020)Soc 125 American Society: How It Really Works (Honors)Soc 210 Survey of SociologySoc 496 Globalization and Social ChangeSoc 641 Sociology of Law (Fall 2019)Soc 925 Sociology of Economic Change …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Alternate Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: My research focuses on gender inequality in family life. In much of my work, I ask a version of this question: as support for egalitarianism grows, why does gender continue to shape the benefits we enjoy and burdens we bear as members …
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 Education: Ph.D., Harvard University, 1989 Departmental Areas of Interest: Class Analysis and Historical Change, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Culture, General Social Theory, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnic Studies, Social Movements and Collective Behavior Classes: Soc 773 Intermediate Sociological TheorySoc 915 The Sociology of Pierre BourdieuSoc 915 Pragmatism and Social TheorySoc …