The Sociology department honors two of their graduate students with Awards in 2025-26.

Congratulations to PhD candidate Elizaveta Lepikhova who received the sociology department’s 2025-26 Teaching Award and doctoral student Michelle Parks who received the 2025-26 Paper Award.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.