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On February 18 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics released estimates that decreased life expectancy for Americans, and the drop was larger, depending on race and ethnicity. Michal Engelman, Associate Professor of Sociology, was interviewed for a news story on Wisconsin Public Radio and stated this data from the …
Ph.D. candidate Nona Gronert received the Hyde Dissertation Research Award for Graduate Students for her project, “The Promise and Peril of Title IX Addressing Sexual Violence: A University Case Study, 1972-2017.” Gronert’s research focuses on sexual violence and sexual consent in higher education. This competitive award is administered by the Center for Research on Gender …
Sociology Ph.D. student Masoud Movahed wrote an intellectual biography of his former advisor, the late Erik Olin Wright published in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Read it here.
Robert (Rob) D. Mare passed away on Monday February 1, 2021. Mare began his career in the Department of Sociology at UW–Madison as an Assistant Professor in 1977 and he served as Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) from 1989 to 1994. He moved to the University of California, Los Angeles in …
Congratulations to Monica Grant and Mike Light for their appointments as Vilas Associates! Recipients are chosen competitively by Divisional Research Committees of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education on the basis of a detailed proposal. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance …
Nathan received his Ph.D. in April of 2020 and is now a National Institute on Aging T32 Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, “The Population Effects of U.S. Deindustrialization,” was written under the supervision of Professor Jenna Nobles. Dr. Lumpkin earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from …
In an opinion piece published in the “New York Times” on January 13, 2021, Thomas B. Edsall explores the various motivations of the pro-Trump mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6. Edsall addresses “disgruntlement in many members of Trump’s white working-class base is their inability to obtain a college education, a limitation that blocks …
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 Studies (1984-87), as Chair of the Department of Sociology (1988-91), and as Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology …
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 Goldberg. The event will feature a short introduction to the book by Goldberg, brief remarks by the contributors, and an …
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 UW–Madison in her address to winter graduates. Read more…