University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jill Richardson’s dissertation research examines how a Montana-based non-profit, Blackfoot Challenge (BC), facilitates the exchange of knowledge between experts and laypeople for carnivore management. Her article titled, “The Cows May Safely Graze: Placing Expert-Lay Relationships at the Center of Overcoming the Expert-Lay Knowledge Divide” was recently published in “Rural Sociology.” Her research was recently featured …
Sociology alumna Alex Hanna, Ph.D. 2016, came out as a transgender woman while at UW- Madison and recently created a scholarship to support undergraduate students committed to and engaged in activities that support the LGBTQ+ community. Her story was recently featured in the College of Letters & Science publication “Sift & Winnow.” Hanna now works …
The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) established its new dissertation research grants program to support innovative and high-quality research projects that are closely aligned with its funding priorities, contribute to RSF’s mission to improve social and living conditions in the United States, and demonstrate appropriate use of relevant theory, innovative data, rigorous research methods, and measures. …
On Tuesday, June 28, 6:00pm at Leopold’s Books Bar Caffè, Doug Maynard, Maureen T. Hallinan Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, will discuss his just published co-authored book “Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis.” Maynard will read or discuss three select passages ideas from the book, and then encourage questions or comments after each …
In collaboration with Department of Sociology graduate students Chloe Haimson and Jienian Zhang and investigators at the UW–Madison’s Carbone Center, Associate Professor John Eason’s research on racial disparities in cancer treatment and survival has found that non-Hispanic Black patients in Wisconsin were half as likely as white patients to get any treatment for pancreatic cancer …
This year the Department of Sociology had 71 students receive their Bachelor’s degrees and eight candidates receive their Ph.Ds. The ceremonies for the the doctoral candidates were held on Friday May 13 and the ceremony for the undergraduates was held on Saturday, May 14. Congratulations to everyone who received a degree this spring! Your tenacity …
In honor of his late advisor, Erik Olin Wright, graduate student Masoud Movahed wrote a commentary in “The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible” detailing Wright’s Real Utopias Project.
Congratulations to graduate student Taylor Laemmli for having her paper, “Workers and Their Foes: Low-Autonomy Precarious Work in the Service Triad,” selected for the Harry Braverman Award by the Labor Studies Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
The Chicago Ethnography Conference will be virtual Saturday April 2. This year’s theme is Ethnography and Qualitative Literacy: Communicating Research in Uncertain Times. There will be keynote presentations from @JessicaCalarco and @MarioLuisSmall and graduate student research from around the globe. Register here. The following UW–Madison graduate students have worked hard on the Organizing Committee: Sadie …
Affiliated Faculty Member Lewis Friedland, a widely respected sociologist of media and political sociology and valued affiliate of our department, retired from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication this past semester. Professor Friedland was a co-advisor and committee member for many of our graduate students over the past three decades. His research focused on …