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December 2022 Highlights
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- Undergrads Meet Dogs before Finals Week
- Sociology Board of Visitors Distinguished Alumni Award
- Research Linking Education and Alzheimer's Disease wins NIA Grant
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- Mike Massoglia Co-authors Book on Prisons and Health
- Leafia Ye Wins Everett S. Lee Graduate Paper Award
- Conversations On Wisconsin
- Give to UW Sociology
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Decency. Excellence. Diversity.
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Undergrads Meet Dogs before Finals Week
Undergraduate Sociology majors in Academic Advisor and alum Lyn Macgregor’s (PhD 2005) innovative new Undergraduate Colloquium Series course were treated to a year-end visit by three registered therapy dogs from Dogs on Call. This non-profit group brings highly trained dogs and other animals along with their very patient handlers to a range of populations who benefit from interaction with animals. The visit was featured on Instagram's Dogs of Madison, the "pet project" of Sociology's own Jason Nolen (PhD 2020). Nolen also runs IG's Cats of Madison. As one of our permanent instructors, Nolen teaches hundreds of students each semester in important gateway courses like Race & Ethnicity in the US and Survey of Sociology. (Keep up with these local pets at @dogs.of.madison and @cats_of_madison).
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This new colloquium created by Macgregor featured speakers during the semester discussing different career paths for Sociology majors, with presenters including faculty, alumni, and staff from across campus and the community. Students attend individual events in the series on an a la carte basis, or enroll in the course for one credit. Says Macgregor, “Students love their Sociology courses, but sometimes are unsure where a major in Sociology will take them. This course presents a range of career paths and the many rewarding options open to sociologists.” Macgregor herself is proof that studying sociology can lead to great things as she continues using her broad skill set to implement new strategies that better serve our undergraduate students, across the major and beyond. The highlight to this semester-long colloquium inarguably occurred during the final week of classes, as the dogs were an overwhelming hit with the students. A few faculty and staff members crashed the course and joined the undergraduates in welcoming these furry stress reducers.
"The Colloquium Series would not be possible without the generosity of our alumni," says Macgregor. "Financial contributions to the Elder fund cover the cost of each event, and alumni have been incredibly generous in sharing their time coming to campus to speak with our students. We are very grateful for our generous alumni."
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Sociology Board of Visitors Distinguished Alumni Award
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The Sociology Board of Visitors created a new award to honor UW-Madison Sociology alumni who have made outstanding achievements in both their careers and communities that have significantly improved the lives of others. It is expected that the recipients will represent the highest ideals of the department and UW-Madison and be a role model for sociologists worldwide.
Applications are now closed; the inaugural winner will be announced in early 2023.
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Leafia Ye Wins Everett S. Lee Graduate Paper Award
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Leafia Ye won the Southern Demographic Society's Everett S. Lee Graduate Paper Award at its annual meeting. The winning paper is titled, "Persistent Legal Stratification: Undocumented Status and Socioeconomic Development throughout the Life Course."
Leafia is expected to earn her PhD in May 2023, and in July 2023, she will join the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor of Sociology.
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Research Linking Education with Alzheimer's Wins NIA Grant
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Research on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias is getting a big boost after the National Institute on Aging awarded scientists a $50M grant to study how education affects the development of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The grant brings together an interdisciplinary team of experts from eight universities. Eric Grodsky, Professor of Sociology and Chair of UW-Madison’s Sociology department is a co-Principal Investigator on this work. Read more here.
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Mike Massoglia Co-Authors Book on Prisons and Health
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Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration, published by Oxford University Press, focuses on the connection between incarceration and health. It's co-authored by Mike Massoglia with colleagues Jason Schnittker (University of Pennsylvania) and Christopher Uggen (University of Minnesota, PhD 1995). The book has received considerable attention and overwhelmingly positive reviews. Read more here.
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Conversations On Wisconsin
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Mike Massoglia was honored to sponsor dinner with a group of undergraduate students from Wisconsin Alumni Student Board (WASB) during their Conversations on Wisconsin. This is a bi-annual event in which distinguished UW-Madison alumni and/or faculty sponsor an evening of conversation for students. Mike and six undergraduates who are interested in sociology dined at Sardine, an award-winning Madison restaurant, hosted by owner and Sociology supporter, John Gadau.
Says Massoglia, “I have been fortunate to have had all of these students in class, some more than once. I knew them all by name and so we didn’t spend time on introductions. We chatted about career goals, the challenges of law school/graduate school (even just getting into law school and grad school), life as a professor, how sociological research (my research on prisons and health or immigration and sentencing) can inform pubic policy and our views on the importance of the Wisconsin Idea. We also just chatted about life -- music, movies, fun things to do in Madison -- over a great dinner."
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This giving season, please consider UW Sociology. You can help students who excel at their scholarship, volunteer in their community, advocate for LGBTQ issues, come from underrepresented backgrounds, experience emergencies like broken laptops that could possibly derail their education, and more. Choose your cause at sociology.wisc.edu/sociology-funds/ or use the teal button above to give to the department's general use Annual Fund.
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This newsletter was created by Erin Skarivoda, Tina Hunter, and Eric Grodsky.
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