May 8, 2012:
- 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...
- Ted Gerber honored with Kellett Award
Eleven outstanding faculty members have been named winners of this year’s Kellett Mid-Career Awards. The Kellett award, supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), recognizes outstanding mid-career faculty members who are five to 20 years past the first promotion to a tenured position. Each winner, chosen by a Graduate School committee, receives a $60,000 flexible research award.
Theodore P. Gerber, sociology, has written 42 scholarly articles and numerous op-eds, policy briefs and book reviews on social, political, economic and demographic change in contemporary Russia. He directs the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia and recently received an Honored Instructor Award for his teaching in a first-year interest group core seminar. | Read more...
- Robert M. Hauser named Executive Director of NRC Division
Dr. Robert M. "Bob" Hauser, a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1983, has been appointed Executive Director of the National Research Council's Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE). Richard C. Atkinson, Chair of the DBASSE Advisory Committee said, "Dr. Hauser has had a brilliant academic career and has been a leader—nationally and internationally—in the social sciences. He is the perfect choice to lead DBASSE." | Read more...
- Cameron Macdonald book shines light on relationships between mothers, nannies
The most popular portrayals of the relationship between mothers and nannies are often extremes - think "The Nanny Diaries" or "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle."
In her new book, "Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering," Cameron Macdonald shows the reality is much more complex and what makes these relationships difficult is how tough American cultural norms are on working mothers. | Read more...
- Alex Hanna in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ever since the budget battle erupted in Madison, drawing parallels between Midwest and Mideast protest has proved irresistible to pundits and politicians.
But not to University of Wisconsin graduate student Alex Hanna, who has the unusual distinction of personally experiencing the protests in Cairo and Madison back-to-back. | Read more...
- Shamus Khan (PhD '08) book reviewed in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Columbia University's Shamus Rahman Khan is part of a new generation of academics profiled recently in the New York Times for focusing on elites rather than the poor. Instead of articulating the extra obstacles that disadvantaged students face, this research examines the special advantages provided to the children of elite.
This scholarship is important for people in higher education to help understand what Khan calls the paradox of "democratic inequality." | Read more...
- Bob Hauser named to AAAS national commission
As the American Academy of Arts & Sciences introduces a national commission to encourage research in the humanities and social sciences, the University of Wisconsin-Madison boasts strong representation.
Chancellor Biddy Martin will serve on the commission, joining alumnus John Rowe and sociology professor Robert Hauser. | Read more...
- Chad Alan Goldberg receives research fellowships
February 1, 2011:
- Chaeyoon Lim in USA Today
January 11, 2011:
- Matt Desmond wins 2011 Lumpkin Award
Matt Desmond has won this year's Lumpkin Award for his dissertation, "Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty," written under the supervision of Mustafa Emirbayer. Katherine DuPre Lumpkin received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1928. She had a career as a Professor of Sociology at Wells College with a focus on social justice and southern history. A fund in her honor supports an annual award for the best graduate student dissertation in the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at UW-Madison. | Read more...
- Wisconsin Longitudinal Study in the New York Times
Researchers have long known that education and good health are inextricably linked. Numerous studies have found that people with more years of schooling and higher education enjoy better health, over all, than those with less. But in a fascinating new report, investigators found that it is not just the number of degrees or years of education that make a difference, but another factor — class rank. | Read more...
- Study by Shane Sharp finds prayer can help handle harmful emotions
Those who choose to pray find personalized comfort during hard times, according to UW-Madison Sociology graduate student Shane Sharp. | Read more...
- WLS: Survey maps the life of a generation
A profile of some of the original Class of '57 graduates who for decades have formed the core of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a groundbreaking work that has charted a generation's rise from adolescence to older age. | Read more...
- Christine Schwartz in the Wall Street Journal
"Assortative mating"—the human urge to pair up with
someone who is similar to you—is on the increase in the U.S., according to research by
sociologists Robert Mare of UCLA and Christine Schwartz of the University of Wisconsin-
Madison. They found that those with college degrees are marrying people with college degrees at
higher rates than at any time in the last half-century. | Read more...
- Ivan Ermakoff receives the 2010 European Academy of Sociology Best Book Award for Ruling Oneself Out.
Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdication
Ivan Ermakoff
"What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute such actions to coercive pressures, actors' miscalculations, or their contamination by ideologies at odds with group interests. Ivan Ermakoff argues that these explanations are either incomplete or misleading. Focusing on two paradigmatic cases of voluntary and unconditional surrender of power—the passing of an enabling bill granting Hitler the right to amend the Weimar constitution without parliamentary supervision (March 1933), and the transfer of full executive, legislative, and constitutional powers to Marshal Pétain (Vichy, France, July 1940)—Ruling Oneself Out recasts abdication as the outcome of a process of collective alignment." –- Duke University Press | Read more...
- Cameron Macdonald on the "blurry line" between hospital and at-home care
When patients come home from the hospital after major surgery or a transplant, they often are not well enough to care for themselves, and more importantly, have complex medical needs that need to be monitored by others.
Family members and friends often step in as the "unrecognized long arm of the hospital," because specialized home nursing care can be too expensive, says Cameron Macdonald, an assistant professor of sociology and a scholar with the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. | Read more...
- Joel Rogers on Chancellor's "Meeting of the Minds" panel
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin will lead a dynamic conversation on Wednesday, Sept. 29, with four UW-Madison faculty at the top of their fields to cut through the chatter and tackle the issues at the core of what it means to live in a democracy in 2010. The inaugural Chancellor's Series: Meeting of the Minds at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York is open to UW alumni and friends. | Read more...
- Elizabeth Wrigley Field and Felix Elwert win Best Paper Award from the European Association of Population Studies
The 2010 Gunther Beyer Award for Best Paper by a Young Scholar was presented for their work entitled "Whose mortality decelerates? Multi-stage mortality selection and the poverty puzzle." | Read more...
- Robert Hauser receives Willard Waller Distinguished Career Award
The American Sociological Society's Sociology of Education section selected Robert M. Hauser for the 2010 Willard Waller Award. This award is given every three years to an individual who has had a career of distinguished scholarship in Sociology of Education. The award will be presented at the ASA Annual Meetings in August 2010. | Read more...
- Erik Olin Wright elected President of the American Sociological Association
Erik Wright has been elected to serve as the 103rd President of the American Sociological Association (ASA) for 2011-2012. | Read more...
- Cora Marrett named acting director of National Science Foundation
Marrett, who has a long history as a top administrator with the science agency, has been serving as acting deputy director of NSF since January of 2009. | Read more...
