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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 …
Associate Professor John Eason has been selected to be one of eight Equity Scholars at the Urban Institute. This two-year program provides opportunity for the scholars to deepen their own policy-oriented research on race, equity, and structural racism. Working with other researchers at the Urban Institute’s equity-focused policy centers and labs, scholars will develop research …
The Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured position at the assistant or associate professor rank beginning August 2022. The successful candidate will have a primary appointment and tenure home in the Department of Sociology. Applicants must hold a PhD prior to the start of the appointment. Research specialization is open; however, we …
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 …
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s undergraduate scholarships. Congratulations go out to: Yuxin Liu, Alicia Lorta, Madison Johnson, and Yumeng Wang for receiving the Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship; and Yahvi Mahendra for winning the Andrea Michelle Sperka Sociology Fund. The Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship is an undergraduate scholarship …
Congratulations to Marcy Carlson for receiving a Kellett Mid-Career Award, which recognizes and supports research conducted by faculty members who are seven to twenty years past their first promotion to tenure. Named for the late William R. Kellett, a former president of the WARF board of trustees and president of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the award was …
Congratulations to Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study Michal Engelman who received a Romnes Faculty Fellowship for academic year 2021-22. The Romnes fellowship is named in honor of Haakon Ingolf (H.I.) Romnes, late Trustee and President of the WARF Board. A lifelong friend of the university, his entire career was …
We were deeply saddened by the passing of Franklin Wilson, an exceptional scholar, teacher, mentor, and friend. Obituaries for Franklin can be read here and in ASA Footnotes here. We invite you to save the date to join in a memorial celebration of the life of Franklin Wilson: Saturday, September 25 at 1:00 – 3:00 pm CT University of Wisconsin–Madison Wisconsin …
Governor Tony Evers appointed Kalvin Barrett as the next Dane County Sheriff. Kalvin graduated with a BA from UW Sociology in 2004; he also played football for the Badgers during his time as a student. He has since served as Dane County deputy sheriff and as an officer with the Sun Prairie Police Department, where …
UW Sociology is well represented in In Business Madison’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2021. Congratulations, Kingsley Gobourne and Megan Diaz-Ricks! Kingsley Gobourne is a member of our Board of Visitors. His work at UnityPoint Health — Meriter as their first-ever Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager has garnered attention. Especially notable are his projects that …