Jordan Colosi | colosi@wisc.edu
Robert M. Chiles | rchiles@ssc.wisc.edu
Robert M. Chiles is a PhD candidate in the departments of Sociology and Community & Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Broadly, his research interests involve examining how institutions, discourses, and everyday lifestyles interdependently shape the key features of production/consumption relationships. Currently, he is exploring how the social legitimacy of meat has been disrupted and re-negotiated in light of growing controversies over health, sustainability, and animal treatment. He has also published research that analyzes the cultural politics of in vitro meat, a nascent technology whereby processed meat is grown from stem cells. He is the recipient of a Integrating Research Ethics and Scholarship (IRES) Fellowship and a Advanced Opportunity Fellowship, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School, and he has also served on the board of directors for Madison Community Cooperatives, a local nonprofit dedicated to affordable housing and multiculturalism. He received his undergraduate degree in philosophy and political science from Stanford University.
Katie Fallon | kffallon@wisc.edu
Heather J. Gordon | hjgordon@wisc.edu | website
Heather is a doctoral student in Community and Environmental Sociology at UW-Madison. Her main interests are research methods, the Arctic, indigenous studies, communities, and race and ethnicity. She is from Alaska and is Iñupiaq. Heather is currently finishing up her master’s. Her project is based on interviews with Arctic researchers and interviews and focus groups with Inuit members of a community in Greenland to understand relationship building between researchers and Arctic Indigenous community members.
Michael Halpin | mahalpin@wisc.edu
Michael Halpin is a doctoral student in Sociology at UW-Madison with a focus on medical sociology, science studies and social psychology. His dissertation research addresses how technological advances in the neurological sciences impact mental health care for both clinicians and patients. He is also conducting an ethnographic project on mixed-martial arts with Dagoberto Cortez. Michael’s previous studies have focused on a number of topics, such as Huntington Disease, suicide, prostate cancer and sex work. Michael received his M.A. in sociology from the University of British Columbia and his B.A. from the University of Calgary.
Matt Hollander | mholland@ssc.wisc.edu
Matt Hollander is a doctoral candidate at UW-Madison. His research interests include interpersonal relationships, obedience to authority in interaction, social psychology, and conversation analysis and ethnomethodology. His dissertation research examines directive/response sequences and resistance to authority in a large collection of recordings of the Milgram Obedience Experiment.
Jennifer Patrice Sims | jsims@ssc.wisc.edu | website
Jennifer Patrice Sims is a dissertator in the Department of Sociology at UW-Madison. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, with a minor in Spanish, from Hampton University. During the spring of her junior year, she studied abroad at the Universidad de Sevilla in Spain through the Council on International Education Exchange. In December 2006, Jenn completed a Master of Arts in Sociology, with additional course work in Gender Studies, at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include race/ethnicity and social psychology with an empirical focus on mixed race identity and experience.
Casey Stockstill | stockstill@ssc.wisc.edu
Casey Stockstill is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at UW-Madison. Her interest areas include social psychology, race and ethnic studies, gender, and the family. Casey has three current projects: (1) an experiment examining how multiracials’ presentations of their racial background affect their perceived status and competence; (2) a project with Katie Fallon about how single, heterosexual, professional women in New York City approach dating; and (3) an ethnography of the social lives of preschool children.