University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kingsley Gobourne, UW Sociology alumnus (2009) and member of the department’s Board of Visitors, is working to improve the culture and climate at UnityPoint Health-Meriter. As the program manager of diversity, equity and inclusion, Gobourne has applied his research and evaluation background with a 19-member committee that has divided into 4 sub-committees focusing on policy, …
A guest column by Professor Emerita Pamela Oliver was published in the July 25 edition of the Wisconsin State Journal that describes how the money bail system unfairly affects decisions on guilt and punishment in our legal system. She discusses two local cases in Madison that demonstrate this disparity. Oliver writes, “A legal system that treats …
On June 3 the Dane County Criminal Justice Council announced a new research partnership with John Eason, Associate Professor of Sociology, to determine the impact of jail population reduction on the incidence of COVID-19 in the jail, as well as a projection of COVID-19 infection if the reduction had not occurred. Eason’s research focus has been …
“Medical News Today” is hosting a series of articles that explore the racial health disparities exposed by COVID-19. In a recent interview, John Eason discussed the role that incarceration plays in the uneven effect that COVID-19 is having on Black and Latinx communities. John’s research has shown that Black and Latinx people are over-represented as …
Pam Oliver recently provided comment about current and historical protests against police brutality in an interview with Madison’s NBC 15 news. She is working on a research project analyzing how racism and black protests against police violence have been changing since the 1990s in the United States. Oliver said, “Was I shocked about what happened …
Josh Garoon, an assistant professor in the UW–Madison Department of Community & Environmental Sociology, studies the sociology of public health. He can address the social, economic, and political dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially health inequalities, and he can speak about how we’ve handled preparedness, planning, and response to COVID-19 and how that has affected …
COWS, the economy and jobs policy think tank at UW–Madison, just released their annual State of Working Wisconsin report. While low unemployment and modest job growth continues, problems persist. “The richest Wisconsinites increasingly reap the greatest rewards of growth,” stated Joel Rogers, COWS director and professor of sociology. Read more…
Assistant Professor Jordan Conwell discusses his research that examined how children of different races and genders, but from the same family income, fare in early educational measures in a podcast created with the UW–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty.