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 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 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 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 …
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 …