UW-Madison Sociology
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Official account for the Department of Sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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📖 Martin Eiermann, one of our newest faculty members, is celebrating the release of his book "The Limiting Principle: How Privacy Became a Public Issue," published by Columbia University Press.
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August 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
📖 Martin Eiermann, one of our newest faculty members, is celebrating the release of his book "The Limiting Principle: How Privacy Became a Public Issue," published by Columbia University Press.
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-lim...
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Congratulations to Max Besbris on his selection as an H.I. Romnes Fellow for 2025-2026! research.wisc.edu/faculty-rece...
July 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Congratulations to Max Besbris on his selection as an H.I. Romnes Fellow for 2025-2026! research.wisc.edu/faculty-rece...
James Rosenberg was awarded a grant from UW-Madison's Institute for Regional and International Studies to conduct summer dissertation research in Singapore. He was also awarded a Junior Visiting Fellowship at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna for Fall 2025.
June 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
James Rosenberg was awarded a grant from UW-Madison's Institute for Regional and International Studies to conduct summer dissertation research in Singapore. He was also awarded a Junior Visiting Fellowship at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna for Fall 2025.
🏆 Molly Clark-Barol was selected as the recipient of the Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Graduate Award from @morgridgecenter.bsky.social for her collaboration with FREE, a statewide community organizing network of women impacted by the criminal justice system.
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May 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🏆 Molly Clark-Barol was selected as the recipient of the Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Graduate Award from @morgridgecenter.bsky.social for her collaboration with FREE, a statewide community organizing network of women impacted by the criminal justice system.
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🌟 Congratulations to Jane Ahn (@kiggyville.bsky.social) for her @midwestsoc.bsky.social Scholarship Award! This award goes to help support Jane’s thesis, which focuses on how religion and science, as cultural actors, shape belief in climate change.
May 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🌟 Congratulations to Jane Ahn (@kiggyville.bsky.social) for her @midwestsoc.bsky.social Scholarship Award! This award goes to help support Jane’s thesis, which focuses on how religion and science, as cultural actors, shape belief in climate change.
🥳 Congratulations to Lyn Macgregor for being chosen as this year’s UW-Madison College of Letters & Science Mid-Career Advising Award recipient! #SociologyMajor #SociologyClasses #AcademicAdvising
May 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🥳 Congratulations to Lyn Macgregor for being chosen as this year’s UW-Madison College of Letters & Science Mid-Career Advising Award recipient! #SociologyMajor #SociologyClasses #AcademicAdvising
As Department Chair Eric Grodsky said, “You’d be hard pressed to find a truer moral compass than Joe and his late wife Joann, nor a pair of humans who lived their values more fully.”
Remember Joe Elder and support sociology majors this #DayOfTheBadger. dayofthebadger.org/campaign/soc...
Remember Joe Elder and support sociology majors this #DayOfTheBadger. dayofthebadger.org/campaign/soc...
April 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
As Department Chair Eric Grodsky said, “You’d be hard pressed to find a truer moral compass than Joe and his late wife Joann, nor a pair of humans who lived their values more fully.”
Remember Joe Elder and support sociology majors this #DayOfTheBadger. dayofthebadger.org/campaign/soc...
Remember Joe Elder and support sociology majors this #DayOfTheBadger. dayofthebadger.org/campaign/soc...
We're 20% of the way there! This #DayOfTheBadger, once the Joann and Joe Elder Undergraduate Fund in Sociology receives 25 gifts during Day of the Badger, $1,500 will be unlocked. If you give any amount, you can be a part of reaching this goal!
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April 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We're 20% of the way there! This #DayOfTheBadger, once the Joann and Joe Elder Undergraduate Fund in Sociology receives 25 gifts during Day of the Badger, $1,500 will be unlocked. If you give any amount, you can be a part of reaching this goal!
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Gifts to our Annual Fund support the students, faculty, and staff of our department.
This #GivingTuesday, consider giving to UW Sociology to help the next generation of sociologists thrive.
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This #GivingTuesday, consider giving to UW Sociology to help the next generation of sociologists thrive.
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December 2, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Gifts to our Annual Fund support the students, faculty, and staff of our department.
This #GivingTuesday, consider giving to UW Sociology to help the next generation of sociologists thrive.
supportuw.org/giveto/socio...
This #GivingTuesday, consider giving to UW Sociology to help the next generation of sociologists thrive.
supportuw.org/giveto/socio...
Chad Alan Goldberg was selected to be the 2024 Swarsensky Scholar-in-Residence at Temple Beth El in Madison, Wisconsin. He delivered the keynote lecture, “Antisemitism and American Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Place of the Postwar Era in US History.”
November 20, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Chad Alan Goldberg was selected to be the 2024 Swarsensky Scholar-in-Residence at Temple Beth El in Madison, Wisconsin. He delivered the keynote lecture, “Antisemitism and American Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Place of the Postwar Era in US History.”
Congratulations to Marcy Carlson who will be the President of PAA beginning January 1, 2025! #Demography #PopulationScience @popassocamerica.bsky.social
October 16, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Congratulations to Marcy Carlson who will be the President of PAA beginning January 1, 2025! #Demography #PopulationScience @popassocamerica.bsky.social
Erin Gaede was awarded the Master’s Thesis Award by the Rural Sociological Society for her Master’s thesis titled “Housing Insecurity in America’s Dairyland.” Congratulations!
September 11, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Erin Gaede was awarded the Master’s Thesis Award by the Rural Sociological Society for her Master’s thesis titled “Housing Insecurity in America’s Dairyland.” Congratulations!
📣 We're hiring for a tenure-track position at the advanced assistant professor or the associate rank in the field of demography/population research beginning in August, 2025. Research specialization within demography is open. Apply at a link below!
August 8, 2024 at 6:20 PM
📣 We're hiring for a tenure-track position at the advanced assistant professor or the associate rank in the field of demography/population research beginning in August, 2025. Research specialization within demography is open. Apply at a link below!
Katherine Jensen received an Honorable Mention for the Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award from the Law and Society Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for "The Color Of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil."
July 25, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Katherine Jensen received an Honorable Mention for the Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award from the Law and Society Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for "The Color Of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil."
"Autistic Intelligence" by Doug Maynard and Jason Turowetz (PhD 2016) has won recent awards from the ASA Section on Social Psychology, the ASA Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, and the International Conference on Conversation Analysis.
July 24, 2024 at 5:20 PM
"Autistic Intelligence" by Doug Maynard and Jason Turowetz (PhD 2016) has won recent awards from the ASA Section on Social Psychology, the ASA Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, and the International Conference on Conversation Analysis.
Max Besbris and Elizabeth Korver-Glenn received an Honorable Mention for the Jane Addams Best Article Award from the Community & Urban Sociology section of ASA for "Value Fluidity and Value Anchoring: Race, Intermediaries, and Valuation in Two Housing Markets."
June 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Max Besbris and Elizabeth Korver-Glenn received an Honorable Mention for the Jane Addams Best Article Award from the Community & Urban Sociology section of ASA for "Value Fluidity and Value Anchoring: Race, Intermediaries, and Valuation in Two Housing Markets."
Eunsil Oh and Eunmi Mun won the Article of the Year Award from the ASA Family Section for “Compensatory Work Devotion: How a Culture of Overwork Shapes Women’s Parental Leave in South Korea,” published in Gender & Society.
June 19, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Eunsil Oh and Eunmi Mun won the Article of the Year Award from the ASA Family Section for “Compensatory Work Devotion: How a Culture of Overwork Shapes Women’s Parental Leave in South Korea,” published in Gender & Society.
This year's UW-Madison Sociology Teaching and Mentoring Award winners are:
🏆 Excellence as a Teaching Assistant – Leonard
Kin-Chong Chao
🏆 Excellence as a Lecturer – Michael Topping
🏆 Excellence in Teaching as a Faculty Member –
Chloe Hart
🏆 Excellence as a Teaching Assistant – Leonard
Kin-Chong Chao
🏆 Excellence as a Lecturer – Michael Topping
🏆 Excellence in Teaching as a Faculty Member –
Chloe Hart
May 21, 2024 at 7:38 PM
This year's UW-Madison Sociology Teaching and Mentoring Award winners are:
🏆 Excellence as a Teaching Assistant – Leonard
Kin-Chong Chao
🏆 Excellence as a Lecturer – Michael Topping
🏆 Excellence in Teaching as a Faculty Member –
Chloe Hart
🏆 Excellence as a Teaching Assistant – Leonard
Kin-Chong Chao
🏆 Excellence as a Lecturer – Michael Topping
🏆 Excellence in Teaching as a Faculty Member –
Chloe Hart
Sociology graduate student Alex Mikulas received a Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Award for his dissertation project, "Trends in Housing Market Racial Integration and the Foreclosure Crisis: A Space-Time Analysis.”
May 21, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Sociology graduate student Alex Mikulas received a Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Award for his dissertation project, "Trends in Housing Market Racial Integration and the Foreclosure Crisis: A Space-Time Analysis.”
The Color of Asylum by Katherine Jensen is a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)!
May 20, 2024 at 8:20 PM
The Color of Asylum by Katherine Jensen is a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)!
Sociology grad student Sadie Dempsey received a Graduate Student Service Scholarship from UW-Madison's Graduate School! This scholarship recognizes and honors the graduate students who volunteer to take on service roles in addition to their research, work, and family obligations.
May 20, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Sociology grad student Sadie Dempsey received a Graduate Student Service Scholarship from UW-Madison's Graduate School! This scholarship recognizes and honors the graduate students who volunteer to take on service roles in addition to their research, work, and family obligations.
Three of our sociologists received awards at PAA 2024!
📑Julia Thomas received a poster award
📑Emma Romell received a poster award
📑Jenna Nobles received the Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement
📑Julia Thomas received a poster award
📑Emma Romell received a poster award
📑Jenna Nobles received the Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement
May 14, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Three of our sociologists received awards at PAA 2024!
📑Julia Thomas received a poster award
📑Emma Romell received a poster award
📑Jenna Nobles received the Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement
📑Julia Thomas received a poster award
📑Emma Romell received a poster award
📑Jenna Nobles received the Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement
Major congrats to our 2023-2024 sociology scholarship winners!
Alex and Demiana Hanna Pride Scholarship: Forrest Jensen
Andrea Sperka Award for Community Service: Nur Hidaya Binti Rostam
Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship: Raphael Jacobson and Rowan Seffans
Alex and Demiana Hanna Pride Scholarship: Forrest Jensen
Andrea Sperka Award for Community Service: Nur Hidaya Binti Rostam
Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship: Raphael Jacobson and Rowan Seffans
May 13, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Major congrats to our 2023-2024 sociology scholarship winners!
Alex and Demiana Hanna Pride Scholarship: Forrest Jensen
Andrea Sperka Award for Community Service: Nur Hidaya Binti Rostam
Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship: Raphael Jacobson and Rowan Seffans
Alex and Demiana Hanna Pride Scholarship: Forrest Jensen
Andrea Sperka Award for Community Service: Nur Hidaya Binti Rostam
Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship: Raphael Jacobson and Rowan Seffans
Sadie Dempsey and Sarah Farr were selected to present papers at the 2024 Junior Theorists Symposium, which will be held on August 8th in Montreal ahead of the ASA Annual Meeting.
May 13, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Sadie Dempsey and Sarah Farr were selected to present papers at the 2024 Junior Theorists Symposium, which will be held on August 8th in Montreal ahead of the ASA Annual Meeting.