This specialty is known for its vigorous program of research. There are several elective courses and seminars, as well as training experience in research apprenticeships on major studies. These projects run the gamut from historical and comparative studies of inequality to mathematical and econometric modeling of mobility and achievement processes; demographic approaches to stratification and inequality; the development of inequalities through schooling; and organizational treatments of racial and ethnic integration. The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study of the 1957 Wisconsin high school graduation cohort continues to enrich our knowledge about the process of social stratification. Studies of brothers and sisters in the cohort describe the complex pattern of family effects. The 1992 wave of the WLS expanded its content to include mental and physical health, social comparisons with significant others, and exchange relationships with kin. Many other areas of stratification are also studied.
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 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 …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Logan has completed development and testing of a new, two-sided probit method for jointly estimating the separate preferences of men and women for characteristics of partners that uses only data on each individual and the partner they may have. The method can also be used to investigate …
More information Curriculum Vitae Biography Education: Ph.D., New York University (2023) Departmental Areas of Interest: Demography and Ecology; Social Stratification; Family; Methods and Statistics; Education; Aging and the Life Course Other Campus Affiliations: Center for Demography and Ecology Interdisciplinary Training Program Research Interest Statement: My primary research agenda is focused on understanding how social policy …
Biography Research Interest Statement: Mike’s work focuses on the social consequences of the expansion of the penal system, the relationship between the use of legal controls and demographic change in the United States, and patterns and consequences of criminal behavior over the life course. Mike’s work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am a sociologist of gender, work, and family interested in inequality, culture, and demographic change. My research asks how gender inequality persists and changes form as women’s lives transform, and I pursue that question through contemporary South Korea and East Asia. Empirically, I study maternal employment …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Research Interest Statement: My research examines disparities in mental, physical, and material well-being. I am interested in both how these inequalities are influenced by macrosocial forces (including economic and political institutions), as well as how they are generated in proximate contexts via the interplay of biological …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Research Interest Statement: My core research focuses on the relationship between residential attainment and access to educational opportunity in the US, where I investigate connections between structural inequalities and individual choices: Education: Ph.D., New York University (2016) Departmental Areas of Interest: Communities and Urban Sociology; …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Research Interest Statement: My research interests fall at the intersection of family demography, stratification, and gender. Much of my work examines the causes and consequences of assortative mating to gain insight into the links between family change and inequality in the United States. Another line …