University of Wisconsin-Madison
Congratulations to the following graduate students on receipt of their fellowships and grants! Nona Gronert is a 2021 National Academy of Education’s Spencer Dissertation Fellow through August of 2022. Walker Kahn received the National Science Foundation’s Law and Science Dissertation Grant Award. Kurt Kuehne won a Multi-Country Research Fellowship from Council of American Overseas Research …
Leafia Zi Ye’s paper “Continuous Integration or Cumulative (Dis)advantage? U.S. Immigrants’ Economic Trajectories in Later Life” received the Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging & the Life Course. Ye began her graduate studies in the Department of Sociology in 2016 and her research uses quantitative methods to study immigrants …
Casey Stockstill (Ph.D. 2018) was recently interviewed for the newsletter “Culture Study” by Anne Helen Peterson about her research on race and early childhood care. Stockstill is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver, where she is finishing her book, Unequal Beginnings: Daily Life in Two Segregated American Preschools. The questions that …
Congratulations to Chiara Packard who recently received a Mellon-Wisconsin Summer Fellowship and a Student Research Fellowship from the Institute for Research on Poverty for 2021-2022. These fellowships will support her as she conducts ethnographic fieldwork in two District Attorney’s offices throughout the coming year. Chiara is a PhD candidate with research interests in the sociology …
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 …
Congratulations to Sociology PhD candidate Ruby Bafu, who was named a 2021 Graduate Student Service Scholarship awardee. The Graduate Student Service Scholarship recognizes and honors the graduate students who volunteer to take on service roles in addition to their research, work, and family obligations. While service can come in many different forms and all service …
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 …
Four Sociology/ Community, and Environmental Sociology graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2020 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards for excellence in teaching and instructional continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Huge congratulations goes out to: Elisa Avila (Community and Environmental Sociology), Early Excellence in Teaching Award Ruby Bafu (Sociology), Exceptional Service Award Jason Nolen …
Congratulations to Annaliese Grant for being one of 24 graduate students awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDRIG) for her research project “A Multi-Method Approach to Family Media Use and Social Class.” Grant will use the funds to help support the statistical analysis of nationally representative survey data, interviews, participant observation, time-use surveys of participants …
In an op-ed article titled “A Fix for More Affordable Housing” in the March 4 edition of the “New York Times” Baiocchi and Carlson propose a plan to promote affordable housing during the difficult economic period in the United States caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. After a review of what happened to housing after the 2018 …