University of Wisconsin-Madison
Second-year graduate student Julia Thomas has been awarded a 3-year NSF fellowship for her project that examines whether, when, and how contemporary capital punishment operates as “legal lynching” in the United States. Congratulations Julia!
Sociology graduate student Sarah “Frankie” Frank’s paper “Queering Menstruation: Trans and Genderqueer Identity and Body Politics” has been selected as the first place winner in this year’s Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) Graduate Paper Competition. This award will be presented at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in New York City this summer.
With the deaths of Barbara and George H. W. Bush being just eight months apart, the “widowhood effect” has been in the news. Professor Felix Elwert was interviewed by the Huffington Post about the loss of a spouse and health.
With prison inmates in California getting paid $1-an-hour for fighting fires, Wisconsin Public Radio explored the history of prison labor in America and the controversy that surrounds it. Associate Professor John Eason was the guest of the show and provided his view as a sociologist.
The Association for Jewish Studies has selected Professor Chad Goldberg’s book Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, as the finalist for the 2018 Jordan Schnitzer Book Prize in the category of Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore. Congratulations Chad!
Curtiss Engstrom and Ningyuan Ma, undergraduate students in the Sociology Department’s Concentration in Analysis and Research (CAR), had valuable internships this past summer which allowed them to apply knowledge and skills gained from CAR courses in research settings. Curtis was a fellow at the highly competitive University of Michigan-University of Maryland-Westat Joint Program in Survey …