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In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Franklin Wilson

Posted on January 13, 2021

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 …

Posted in Faculty & Lecturers, NewsTagged Faculty, News

Virtual Book Launch for Book on Wisconsin Idea

Posted on January 5, 2021

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 …

Posted in Faculty & Lecturers, News, PublicationsTagged Faculty, News

Winter 2020 Commencement Speaker: Sociology Alumna Rose Lavelle

Posted on January 1, 2021

Lavelle was a member of the U.S. Women’s soccer team that won the World Cup championship in the summer of 2019. Lavelle majored in Sociology in 2017.  She shared life lessons and her admiration for …

Posted in News, Student & AlumniTagged Alumni, News

Eunsil Oh’s Article Selected as Finalist for the 2020 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work and Family

Posted on December 22, 2020

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 …

Posted in Faculty & Lecturers, NewsTagged Faculty, News

Alex Hanna (Ph.D. ’16) Named One of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021

Posted on December 21, 2020

Hanna is a senior research scientist on Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) team and the Women in AI Ethics project named her to its list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021.  The …

Posted in News, Student & AlumniTagged Graduate Program, News

Opinion piece in Newsweek: John Eason States Need to Vaccinate the Prison Population

Posted on December 18, 2020

Eason, who wrote this article with 3 colleagues who also research criminal justice, points out how some of the counties in the U.S. that are most affected by COVID-19 are those where correctional facilities are …

Posted in Faculty & Lecturers, NewsTagged Criminal Justice, Inequality, News

John Eason and Colleagues Examine Wisconsin’s Changing Demographics

Posted on December 8, 2020

In collaboration with UW-Madison graduate students Chloe Haimson, Jungmyung Kim, and Benny Witkovsky, Associate Professor John Eason published an article in The Conversation, that was also featured in the Wisconsin State Journal, describing their research …

Posted in Faculty & Lecturers, News, Student & AlumniTagged Faculty, Graduate Program, News

Study by Michael Light Demonstrates Low Crime Rates among Undocumented Immigrants Compared to U.S. Citizens

Posted on December 8, 2020

Associate Professor Michael Light, and UW-Madison graduate student co-authors Jingying He and Jason Robey, had their research published in an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that compares crime rates between …

Posted in Faculty & Lecturers, Grants & Research Findings, News, Student & AlumniTagged Criminal Justice, Faculty, News

Felix Elwert Selected Editor-in-Chief for Sociological Methods and Research Journal

Posted on December 4, 2020

Felix Elwert, Professor of Sociology, will become the next Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Methods and Research (SMR). SMR is the top-ranked methodology journal in the social sciences by impact factor (4.51 in 2019), putting it ahead of …

Posted in Faculty & Lecturers, NewsTagged Faculty, News

Michal Engelman to be New Director of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

Posted on December 4, 2020

Associate Professor Michal Engelman will be the new director of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a long-term study of 10,317 men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957.  Engelman plans to enhance the …

Posted in Faculty & Lecturers, NewsTagged Demography, Faculty, News
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