University of Wisconsin-Madison
The La Follette School of Public Affairs, the Center for Demography of Health & Aging, and the Hilldale Lecture Series are pleased to host Anne Case, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus, at Princeton University, as the 2022 Hilldale Lecture in the Social Sciences. On April 14 from 7-8 pm, join …
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.
Assistant Professor Max Besbris’ book “Upsold” was selected by the Midwest Sociological Society for it’s Distinguished Book Award.
Unfortunately our speaker, Professor Tyrone Forman, has had to postpone his presentation that was scheduled for Wednesday, March 30 at 12:15pm. We will be working to reschedule his lecture for later this semester and will send out more information once a new date and time have been set.
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 …
Graduate student Anna Popovych, who came from Ukraine to study sociology, participated in a small protest of Russian and Ukrainian students and teachers on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus on Thursday February 24, to show their solidarity with Ukraine and to call for a stop to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the former Soviet republic. …
Three Sociology graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2021 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards to recognize their excellence of teaching in lecture halls, classrooms, and labs on campus or leading learning opportunities in the wider community. Congratulations to Soyun Park, Kurt W. Kuehne, and Kerem Morgül! So Yun Park was awarded the …