April 30, 2013:
- Jane Piliavin on NBA player's coming out
Jason Collins becomes the first professional athlete to come out as gay -- Professor Jane Pilliavin, who is teaching "Sociology of Sport" in the upcoming summer session, comments. | Read more...
- Gary Sandefur steps down as dean of UW Madison College of Letters and Science
This summer, Gary Sandefur will step down as dean of the College of Letters & Science, after nine years at the helm of the UW's largest academic unit. He'll return to teaching in the Department of Sociology, where he arrived nearly 29 years ago with a set of values shaped by his humble upbringing in rural Oklahoma. | Read more...
- Ted Gerber on Chechnyan history and politics in the context of the Boston Marathon
Ted Gerber discussed Chechnyan history and politics in the context of the Boston Marathon bombings on Madison's local news program "Live at Five." The interview with Gerber starts at about 4:00 in the link included here. | Read more...
- Markus Gangl named elected member of German National Academy of Sciences
Prof. Dr. Markus Gangl has been named Elected Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina by the Academy's Directorate. In existence for more than 350 years, the Leopoldina Academy is one of the oldest academic societies in the world and serves as Germany's National Academy of Sciences. Election into the Academy follows from recommendations of peers and is considered a prestigious academic honor. Markus Gangl will serve as one of 33 current members of the Academy Chapter "Economics and Empirical Social Sciences." | Read more...
- Mike Massoglia's work (with others) featured in Huffington Post
In "How Mass Incarceration Threatens Public Health," Jason Silverstein explores the effects of incarceration on the health of former prisoners and their communities. Mike Massoglia's work in Law & Society Review is cited. | Read more...
- Adam Gamoran named President of William T. Grant Foundation
Professor Adam Gamoran has been named President of the William T. Grant Foundation. The foundation, located in New York City, funds research on programs and policies that improve the lives of youth. In his announcement to colleagues, Gamoran said, "I see this as a chance to shape the direction and quality of research on education and youth development, and am excited by the opportunity to pursue a new endeavor." | Read more...
- The Future of Social Science Data Collection
The Panel on a Research Agenda for the Future of Social Science Data Collection (of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council) has released its report: Nonresponse in Social Science Surveys: A Research Agenda, published by National Academies Press. Sociology Faculty member and UW Survey Center Faculty Director Nora Cate Schaeffer was a member of the Panel. | Read more...
- Schaeffer, Dykema, Maynard and Garbarski receive NSF grant
Nora Cate Schaeffer (Sociology and UW Survey Center), Jennifer Dykema (Ph.D. 2004, UW Survey Center), Douglas W. Maynard (Sociology) and Dana Garbarski (Ph.D. 2012, Center for Women's Health and Health Disparities Research) received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study Interactional Influences on Survey Participation. | Read more...
- Erin Hatton op-ed in the New York Times
2007 Sociology PhD Erin Hatton's op-ed "The Rise of the Permanent Temp Economy" was featured in the New York Times. Erin is now an Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY-Buffalo. | Read more...
- Felix Elwert wins Vilas Associate award
Felix Elwert has received a Vilas Associate award from the UW-Madison Graduate School. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and on-going research of the highest quality and significance. Elwert's award honors his work on statistical methods for causal inference from observational data with applications to neighborhood effects and the determinants of educational outcomes. | Read more...
- Palloni and Yonker contribute to National Academies report on US Health: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health
January 16, 2013:
- Michael Massoglia on the link between incarceration and psychiatric disorders
Psychiatric disorders are prevalent among current and former inmates of correctional institutions, but what has been less clear is whether incarceration causes these disorders or, alternatively, whether inmates have these problems before they enter prison. A study co-authored by Jason Schnittker, UW Sociology faculty member Michael Massoglia, and UW alum Christopher Uggen, shows that many of the most common psychiatric disorders found among former inmates, including impulse control disorders, emerge in childhood and adolescence and, therefore, predate incarceration. Yet, incarceration seems to lead to some mood related psychiatric disorders, such as major depression, which have important implications for what happens to inmates after their release. | Read more...
- Jordan Colosi op-ed on the Huffington Post
On the eve of election day, the Huffington Post published an opinion piece on Life's Race, by Sociology Ph.D. student Jordan Colosi. | Read more...
- Former grad Philip Brenner on NPR
Former UW Sociology grad student Philip Brenner was interviewed on NPR in a discussion on the difference between American citizens' actual and reported church attendance. The story, What We Say About Our Religion, And What We Do reported on Brenner's research and Brenner was interviewed by reporter Shankar Vedantam. Brenner is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts Boston. | Read more...
- Grad Sarah Bruch in The New Republic
Research by recent graduate Sarah Bruch, now assistant professor at the University of Iowa, is featured in a story in The New Republic | Read more...
- Barry Eidlin on the strikes at Walmart
The political newsletter/website CounterPunch has published an article by Barry Eidlin, "Back to the Future for Labor? The Walmart Strikes." Eidlin is an American Sociological Association-National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a Research Fellow at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. | Read more...
- Alice Goffman's research in The New York Times
Alice Goffman's research work in Detroit is mentioned prominently in the op-ed piece, "Is Poverty a Kind of Robbery?" by columnist Thomas B. Edsall, Sept. 16, 2012 | Read more...
- James Montgomery awarded Gould Prize by the American Journal of Sociology
Each year the editorial board of the AJS selects an article for the Roger V. Gould Prize that is empirically rigorous, theoretically grounded, and lucidly written. Congratulations to James Montgomery for winning the 2012 Gould prize for his article "The Population Dynamics of Black-White-Mulatto Racial Systems." | Read more...
- Ivan Ermakoff receives Coser Award from ASA's Theory section
Ivan Ermakoff received the 2012 Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda-Setting. This prize recognizes a mid-career sociologist whose work holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology. Ermakoff will deliver the Coser Lecture at the ASA
meetings in August 2013. | Read more...
- Grad Dana Garbarski receives research award
Dana Garbarski received an award from The Charles Cannell Fund in Survey Methodology of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. This award is granted to junior researchers to examine interviewer-respondent interaction during the survey interview and its effects on the validity and quality of survey data. Dana will use her award to study interviewer and respondent interactional rapport during the end-of-life planning section of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. The purpose of this study is to address two overarching goals: to investigate how interviewers and respondents interactionally deal with potentially sensitive or threatening topics, and to explore the interactional cues associated with concordant and discordant proxy reports of the end-of-life treatment preferences of one’s spouse. | Read more...
- Christine Schwartz quoted in The New York Times
The royal wedding of Kate Middleton to Prince William was exceptional in more than one way: the postwar phenomenon of "marrying up" is disappearing. These days, women tend to marry men from the same socioeconomic class. As women have overtaken men in education and are catching up with them in the job market, the rise of what sociologists and economists call assortative mating — people picking spouses with similar educational achievements and incomes — has been pronounced. | Read more...
- Anna Haskins wins best grad student paper from ASA Population Section
Sociology graduate student Anna Haskins just won the ASA Population Section's grad student paper award for her paper "Unintended Consequences of Mass Imprisonment: Effects of Paternal Incarceration on Child School Readiness." Congratulations, Anna! | Read more...
- Aliza Luft receives dissertation fellowships
May 8, 2012:
- Pamela Oliver receives Lifetime Achievement Award
The Notre Dame Center for the Study of Social Movements presented Pamela Oliver with the John D. McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Behavior on May 5, 2010. The McCarthy Award honors scholars who have made "outstanding contributions to the scholarly literature concerned with social movements, protest, collective violence, riots, and other kinds of collective behavior over the course of a career." | Read more...
- Joan Fujimura awarded NIH research grant to analyze how genome researchers define population groups
"Exploring population concepts in multiethnic gene-environment interaction studies" will analyze the challenges faced by researchers as they work with genomic data collected using different definitions of socio-cultural categories. The project examines the social and ethical dimensions of analyses and results generated by this new and growing arena of research. | Read more...
- Jenna Nobles wins NIH funding to study Tsunami effects
"Fertility after a large-scale disaster" will study the demographic effects of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, part of a larger effort to understand the demographic consequences of population trauma. Nobles will study changes in fertility in affected populations following the tsunami, comparing data collected before and after the disaster. | Read more...
- Sociology undergraduates recognized as Outstanding Returning Adult Students
The UW-Madison Outstanding Returning Adult Student Awards competition offers a way to recognize exceptional determination, perseverance, leadership, and community service among undergraduates who have begun or resumed work after an interruption in their formal education. This spring, Teresa Hernandez (Sociology) was nominated for the award, Josephine Lorya-Ozulamoi (Legal Studies/Sociology) and Cynthia Novak (Community & Environmental Sociology) were finalists, and Lachelle Jennings (Sociology) was one of only two overall winners of this campus-wide competion. Congratulations to Lachelle and the other nominees for their exceptional work. | Read more...
- Hae Yeon Choo wins award for department's best dissertation
Hae Yeon Choo has won this year's Lumpkin Award for the best dissertation in the Wisconsin Sociology Department. Hae Yeon's dissertation, "Citizenship at the Margins: Filipina Migrant Women and the Paradox of Rights in South Korea," was written under the supervision of Myra Marx Ferree.
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- Broton, Gorden, and McAuliffe awarded NSF graduate fellowships
Katherine Broton, Daanika Gorden, and Joshua McAuliffe have been awarded Graduate Research Fellowships by the National Science Foundation.
Jordon Colosi and Amanda McMillan received honorable mentions in this competition. | Read more...
- Graduate students win fellowships and grants
April 16, 2012:
- Elizabeth Wrigley-Field wins best paper by a graduate student award from the Methodology Section of the ASA
Sociology graduate student Elizabeth Wrigley-Field has won the 2012 Clifford Clogg Award for the best paper by a graduate student from the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association for her paper "Three Surprising Results About Mortality Deceleration."
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- Garbarski/Schaeffer/Dykema proposal "Measurement of Self-Reported Health" among 9 winners in RTI's 2012 Research Challenge
A proposal to study the "Measurement of Self-Reported Health," submitted by Sociology graduate student Dana Garbarski, Sociology faculty member Nora Cate Schaeffer, and the UW Survey Center's Jen Dykema was among the winning entries in RTI's 2012 Research Challenge. The research team will have their questions included as part of an in-person survey of Chicago residents this summer. The goal of their proposal is to examine whether the validity of self-reported health is improved by varying question context and the ordering of the response options. The intent of their experiment is to make important contributions to research on survey methodology, health outcomes and disparities, and any field interested in capturing indicators of health in their surveys. | Read more...
- Christine Schwartz quoted in the cover story of Time (March 15 issue)
Today's high-earning women are justly proud of their paychecks but they still often feel that men will be intimidated rather than attracted to them as potential mates. Included in the March 15, 2012 Time magazine cover article, The Richer Sex, by Liza Mundy, is a quote from Christine Scwartz and a reference to her recent work.
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- Erik Olin Wright on the Occupy movement
Erik Olin Wright was quoted in a KATV.com (Little Rock, Arkansas) article about the Occupy movement | Read more...
- Emma Shakeshaft wins UW Early Excellence in Teaching Award
Emma Shakeshaft, a TA nominated by the Sociology Department for an Early Excellence in Teaching Award, is among this year's winners. The reception will take place on Thursday, February 9, 2012 from 3:00-4:00pm in 911 Van Vleck Hall.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison employs over 1,700 teaching assistants across a wide variety of disciplines. Their contributions in the classroom, lab, studio, and field are essential to the University's education mission. In order to recognize excellence on the part of TAs across campus, each year the College of Letters and Science, with funding support from the Graduate School, administers four awards for exceptional teaching. This year, sixteen TAs will be recognized for their teaching excellence at UW-Madison. | Read more...
- Felix Elwert's Sociology 120 participates in UW e-Textbook pilot program
UW-Madison and four other major universities announced plans to try buying electronic textbooks in bulk, an experiment that officials say could help rein in burdensome textbook costs and bring e-textbooks into the mainstream.
Professor Felix Elwert's Sociology 120 class is one of five courses participating in the campus pilot program.
More information on the e-Textbook pilot program from other sources...
The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
The New York Times
UW Madison CIO Office
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- Global Health Institute awards seed grants to Grant, Green, and Palloni
Eight campus research projects received start-up funding from the UW-Madison Global Health Initiative, including projects from faculty members Monica Grant (Sociology): "Mobile Phone-Disseminated Health Information," Gary Green (Community & Environmental Sociology): "Pathways for Poverty Reduction in Haiti: Health and economic impacts of organic mango Production and Processing" and Alberto Palloni (Sociology): "Economic Growth and Inequality in Human Capital Formation." | Read more...
- Faculty and students win awards at ASA, August 2011
August 15, 2011:
- Contexts publishes article by Sociology grad students on the 2011 Wisconsin protests
A group of University of Wisconsin Sociology graduate students who are also members of the Teaching Assistants Association (TAA) share their experiences protesting Governor Scott Walker's moves to curtail collective bargaining rights in spring 2011. (Taylan Acar, Robert Chiles, Garrett Grainger, Aliza Luft, Rahul Mahajan, João Peschanski, Chelsea Schelly, Jason Turowetz, and Ian F. Wall) | Read more...
- Steven Haas (PhD '04) study finds that thin people earn more
In the video linked here, Steven Haas is interviewed on MSNBC about his research, which was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Haas, who earned his PhD from UW-Madison in 2004, worked with data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. | Read more...
- Senate confirms Cora Marrett as Deputy Director of NSF
Cora B. Marrett, professor emeritus of Sociology at UW-Madison, was confirmed by the Senate in May as the Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation. | Read more...
- Katherine Curtis study examines impact of climate change
Katherine Curtis (Community and Environmental Sociology) and her colleague Annemarie Schneider (Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment) examine the impacts of rising oceans as one element of how a changing climate will affect humans. | Read more...
- Alberto Palloni named PAA Honored Member
Forty-five of Alberto Palloni's students and colleagues came together this Spring to honor his contributions to the field of demography. The honor was bestowed by PAA President David Lam on 1 April 2011 at this year's annual meeting of the Population Association of America.
Palloni joins other distinguished demographers so honored, including present and former UW Sociology faculty members Larry Bumpass, Judith Seltzer and Robert Mare. | Read more...
