University of Wisconsin-Madison
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 …
Biography Research Interest Statement: My research agenda is centered on transition processes and collective situations in which individuals are confronted with decisions that challenge their sense of self-interest, preservation or identity. I have been investigating aristocrats facing new matrimonial regulations in Europe in the central middle ages, parliamentarians confronted with the prospect of their own …
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 Sociologists Soc 496 Topics: Population and Society in Contemporary Russia Soc 633 Social Stratification Soc 923 Social Stratification Soc 952 Log-linear, latent class, and finite mixture models. Soc 971 Migration and Migrants Other …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Education: Ph.D., Sociology, New School for Social Research, 2002 Departmental Areas of Interest: Comparative-Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Movements and Collective Behavior, Culture, General Social Theory, History of Sociology Classes: Soc 259 Forward? The Wisconsin Idea, Past & Present Soc 475 Classical Sociological Theory Soc/Jewish Studies 423 Modern Jewish Thought History …
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 …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: My research examines cultural beliefs about gender, romance, sexuality, and sexual violence in the United States. In one major stream of research, I consider how cultural beliefs about sexual harassment create challenges for people who have experienced it. A second, emerging line of research examines how people …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Mosi Adesina Ifatunji is a Philosopher, Social Scientist and Assistant Professor with joint appointments in the Departments of African American Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he also holds courtesy and research appointments in the Department of African Cultural Studies, African Studies Program, Institute for …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Personal Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: I am an Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As an ethnographer and qualitative sociologist, I research how race/ethnicity and immigration dynamics intertwine in Latin America, with a focus on Brazil and the Southern Cone. My work engages areas …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Alternate Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: Light’s work focuses on criminological consequences of immigration, the links between immigration and punishment, and the relationship between racial/ethnic stratification and crime. Current projects examine the collateral consequences of deportation and the relationship between colorism and punishment. Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State …