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May 2022 Highlights
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- Congratulations, Graduates!
- Odyssey Students Take Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Course
- New Faculty Awards
- Allison Daminger to Join Department as Assistant Professor
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- Sewell Lecture by Chaeyoon Lim
- Undergrad Scholarship Winners
- New Members Join Board of Visitors
- Grad Student Speaks with Pope
- Tell Us Your Story
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Decency. Excellence. Diversity.
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Congratulations, Graduates!
Spring 2022 Commencement for Doctoral, MFA and Medical Professional Degree Candidates was May 13 at the Kohl Center. The Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Law Degree Candidate Commencement was May 14 at the Kohl Center. Guests, family members, and friends attended the festive, in-person ceremony in support of graduates.
Sociology had 71 students receive their Bachelor's degrees and eight candidates receive their PhDs. The PhD graduates and their dissertation titles are:
- Michael Billeaux: The Rise and Fall of Militant Interracial Solidarity on the Milwaukee Waterfront, 1934-42
- Chloe Haimson: Fear, Algorithms, and Re-Incarceration: Making it Home in the 21st Century
- Won-tak Joo: Social and Family Lives during Later Life Transitions
- Morgan Matthews: Gender Polarization: The Institutional and Discursive Roots of Gendered Partisanship in U.S. State Politics, 1975-2020
- Kerem Morgul: Muslim Nationalism and Public Attitudes toward Syrian Refugees in Turkey
- Jia Wang: Nonstandard Employment and Unequal Life Chances: Insights from Diverse Contexts
- Kelsey Wright: Three Perspectives on Stratified Reproduction
- Jienian Zhang: Hospice Education: An Ethnography of a Suburban High School in the Era of Racial Equity
Congratulations to everyone who received a degree this spring! Your tenacity and drive are admirable, and we are so inspired by your hard work and determination. You will do great things!
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Odyssey Students Take Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Course
The award-winning UW-Madison Odyssey Project takes a whole family approach to breaking the cycle of generational poverty through access to education, giving adult and youth learners a voice, and increasing confidence through reading, writing, and speaking.
Nidia Bañuelos is an Assistant Professor of Adult, Continuing, and Higher Education and a faculty affiliate of the Department of Sociology. In her Sociology 134 course on race and ethnicities for Odyssey students, she explores challenging topics with students identifying as Black, Latina/o, Hmong, and biracial. “Odyssey students are among the most talkative and engaged students I’ve ever taught,” notes Nidia. Read more here.
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New Faculty Awards
A big congratulations to faculty who have won major UW-Madison awards!
Mustafa Emirbayer received a WARF Named Professorship. As the John Dewey Professor of Sociology and Social Thought, Mustafa's career was influenced most deeply by the philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer John Dewey. WARF professorships honor faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors, but also as a result of their teaching and service activities. Read more here.
Jennifer Dykema received a large internal award to support a feasibility test for whether she and UW Survey Center collaborators can establish and maintain an online panel of Wisconsinites to survey for research.
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Allison Daminger to Join Department as Assistant Professor
Allison Daminger will join our department as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2022. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University and a Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Her research focuses on how and why gender continues to shape individuals’ experiences at home and at work, even as support for gender-egalitarianism grows. Allison's work has been published in two articles in the American Sociological Review and recognized with four awards from the American Sociological Association.
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Sewell Lecture by Chaeyoon Lim
Chaeyoon Lim presented the 16th Annual Sewell Memorial Lecture on April 22. The talk was titled, "Changing Religious Landscape in America: What Is Happening and How Does It Matter?"
When William H. Sewell became chair in 1960, he established a guiding principle of "decency, excellence, and diversity" that the department still aims toward today.
After he passed away in June 2001, we established an annual lecture to honor his memory.
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Undergrad Scholarship Winners
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Every year we award Undergraduate Scholarships. Congratulations to this year's winners: Rachel Litchman, Jordyn Jenjak, Kennedy Francois, and Cassidy Martin!
The Alfred Reschke Social Science Scholarship went to two recipients: Rachel Litchman and Jordyn Jenjak.
Rachel Litchman is a part-time student majoring in Sociology and Gender and Women's Studies. During her time as a student, she has worked locally with organizations such as Disability Pride Madison, the Dane County Youth Action Board, and the Dane County Homeless Services Consortium, which have provided her with a critical sense of community and support.
Jordyn Jenjak is a third-year Sociology undergraduate in the Concentration in Analysis and Research (CAR) program. She works as a CATI (i.e., Telephone Interviewing) Shift Leader in the UW Survey Center's phone room, where she has been since 2020. Her main research interest is in deviance and crime and the related systems of inequality. She hopes to become more deeply involved in research after she graduates.
The Andrea Michelle Sperka Award was awarded to Kennedy Francois, a sophomore pursuing a major in Sociology and a certificate in Health Policy. After graduating, she hopes to fulfill her childhood dream of working in healthcare by enrolling as a second-degree student in the School of Nursing. An aspiring nurse practitioner, Kennedy is committed to serving individuals from diverse backgrounds and making healthcare more equitable.
The first-ever Alex and Demiana Hanna Pride Scholarship was awarded to Cassidy Martin, a spoken word and visual artist from the city of Nashville, Tennessee. Her pronouns are Queen and Goddess and she is a fourth year Sociology major with certificates in Education Policy Studies, Educational Services, and Teaching Artistry. Her passion is teaching spoken word and theatre workshops to youth and creating curricula that use art as a pedagogy, that are intentionally anti-racist, and that are culturally inclusive.
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New Members Join Board of Visitors
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Five new members joined the Board of Visitors since 2021. Phil Chavez, Alex Hanna, Vanessa McDowell, Gary Sandefur, and Caitlin Suemnicht have all agreed to lend their unique expertise to the department. Read more about them here.
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Grad Student Speaks with Pope
Emily Burke, a first-year graduate student, was invited to speak with Pope Francis about climate change and its relationship to migration on February 24.
This event, “Building Bridges,” was hosted by Loyola University in Chicago and included students from Central, South, and North America. The focus of the dialogue was immigration and matters related to economic and environmental justice. The students shared concrete educational projects that seek to justly transform environmental and economic realities and share perspectives on these issues that impact their lives. More information about this event can be found here.
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This newsletter was created by Erin Skarivoda, Christine Schwartz, and Tina Hunter.
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