I am a graduate student in sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. My research interests include social and formal demography, political sociology, and the philosophy of social science.My current research, with Felix Elwert, is on how racial and economic inequality over the entire life course affects late-life mortality rates. We examine well-known demographic "puzzles" -- mortality crossovers and deceleration -- from the perspective of both contemporaneous and longstanding (expressed indirectly through mortality selection) inequality. I am also advised by Erik Wright.
Mom's Wrigley, dad's Field. (It's fun.)
Here's an article about being named "Elizabeth Wrigley-Field" by sportswriter Murray Chass (starts halfway down the page, finishes on the next page).
In 2004 in Mosul (the third largest city in Iraq), a 15-year-old girl started a blog detailing her life in the midst of the Iraq War. Her journal encompasses the day-to-day trauma the American invasion has caused her city, her family and friends. “Today is like every day in Iraq. No electricity, no fun, and no peace,” writes Hadiya (all Iraqi names in the book are pseudonyms). Poems and photographs accompany her thoughts on her academic struggles, Islam and growing up in a war zone; comments from her blog are interspersed, and Hadiya responds to others in several entries (“Another anonymous said, 'You certainly don't deserve this life.' I want to ask you something—is this really a life?”). Hadiya's authentically teenage voice, emotional struggles and concerns make her story all the more resonant.-- Publisher's Weekly
-- Elsa Marston, author of Santa Claus in Baghdad and Other Stories About Teens in the Arab WorldAn important addition to multicultural literature, which vivifies awareness of what has been happening in Iraq and puts American teenagers in touch with the world in a way that no other form of reporting could match.
"I heard the sound of bombing and bullets and I couldn’t concentrate." Despite all the news coverage about the war in Iraq, very little is reported about how it affects the daily lives of ordinary citizens. A high- schooler in the city of Mosul fills in the gap with this compilation of her blog posts about living under U.S. occupation. She writes in English because she wants to reach Americans, and in stark specifics, she records the terrifying dangers of car bombs on her street and American warplanes overhead, as well as her everyday struggles to concentrate on homework when there is no water and electricity at home.-- Hazel Rochman in Booklist
A book as relevant to adults as teenagers and children. Hadiya’s clear simple language helps, in addition to convey the feelings of a teenager, to have a glimpse into the daily life of a professional middle class Iraqi family in an ancient-modern city subjected to a brutal occupation.-- Haifa Zangana, author of City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance
Email me at efield@ssc.wisc.edu