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The Exceptional Service Support Program acknowledges and supports faculty members, especially women and those from historically underrepresented groups, who are sometimes asked to service roles disproportionate to those of other faculty. Such service promotes the university’s interest in having a broad range of perspectives represented on important committees, engaging in governance, and taking on roles to support …
The Department of Sociology’s Evaluation and Improvement of Instruction Committee is pleased to announce this year’s teaching and mentoring awards: Lucas Wiscons, award for excellence in teaching by a teaching assistant Miriam Barcus, award for excellence in teaching by a graduate student instructor Michael Light, award for excellence in teaching by a member of the …
Associate Professor Mike Light’s study demonstrating the decline of racial inequality in federal drug-crime sentencing was recently published in “Social Forces” and is highlighted in Charles Lane’s editorial column in “The Washington Post.” Lane writes, “As the trial of ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd last year gets underway, the nation is …
The Carole Joffe and Stanley Henshaw Early Achievement in Social Science Research Award, given by the National Abortion Federation, honors an individual who has made exceptional contributions to generating abortion-related knowledge. Kelly researches how institutional changes to health care and the medical work force have shaped abortion work, using a framework that examines equity related …
Professor Emeritus Doug Maynard is the recipient of the 2021 Garfinkel-Sacks Award for Distinguished Scholarship in recognition of his distinguished lifetime career contributions to the fields of ethnomethodology and/or conversation analysis. The Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis section of the American Sociological Association confers this award. Maynard retired from the Department of Sociology this past summer.
On February 18 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics released estimates that decreased life expectancy for Americans, and the drop was larger, depending on race and ethnicity. Michal Engelman, Associate Professor of Sociology, was interviewed for a news story on Wisconsin Public Radio and stated this data from the …
Congratulations to Monica Grant and Mike Light for their appointments as Vilas Associates! Recipients are chosen competitively by Divisional Research Committees of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education on the basis of a detailed proposal. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance …
Franklin D. Wilson taught at the University of Wisconsin from 1973 until 2007, where he was most recently the William H. Sewell-Bascom Emeritus Professor of Sociology. He served as Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies (1984-87), as Chair of the Department of Sociology (1988-91), and as Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology …
A virtual book launch event will be held January 28, 4:15 – 5:15pm CST, for Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea, a new book from University of Wisconsin Press, edited by Professor Chad Alan Goldberg. The event will feature a short introduction to the book by Goldberg, brief remarks by the contributors, and an …
Oh is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian Languages and Cultures. Her article, Babies, Work, or both? Highly educated women’s employment and fertility in East Asia was selected as one of five finalists from over 2,500 articles published in 2019, from around the world. The Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work and …