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- Professor Cary Costello speaks with Wisconsin Public Radio about a wave of anti-transgender activityProfessor Cary Costello was interviewed for the half-hour "Central Time" WPR segment, talking about a surge in violence against trans people, in legislation aimed at curtailing transgender civil rights, and the impacts these are having on trans youth and on the LGBTQ+ community as a whole.
- Sociology PhD Alumni Jenna Nitkowski interviewed about her research on telecontraceptionContraceptive Technology Update is a monthly publication read by reproductive health clinicians, leaders, researchers, and others across North America. "State-level conditions and telecontraception platform availability"
- Professor Jennifer Jordan discusses her Recent Publication with WUWM 89.7 FMProfessor Jennifer Jordan honors legacy of former student with posthumous book publication, called A Social History of Modern Tehran: Space, Power, and the City, and after two years of work, the book was published this past month. Listen to Prof. Jordan's interview
- Diana Illencik authors an article in New Media & Society about mental health experiences with the popular social chatbot application ReplikaDiana Illencik Congratulations to Diana Illencik for hitting the ground running and achieving her first publication a mere two months into graduate school. She is a co-author on a paper that will be published in New Media & Society, which has an impact factor above 5. The title and abstract appear below. Congrats Diana! Title: … Read more
- Professor William Velez to Receive the Ernest Spaights Plaza AwardProfessor William Velez Professor William Velez will receive the 2022 Ernest Spaights Plaza Award. This special recognition will be honored at the 2022 Annual Fall Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, October 19th at 3:00pm in the UWM Union Ballroom. Inclusion on the Spaights Plaza marker is one of the highest honors awarded by UWM to a … Read more
- Noelle Chesley featured on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Lake EffectRead the article How automated hiring systems could be contributing to the worker shortage or listen.
- 2022 PhD graduate Antonio Paniagua Guzman joins Memory Keepers Medical Discovery TeamAntonio Paniagua Guzmán (‘22, PhD Sociology) joined Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team in July. Memory Keepers focuses on collaborative research to improve dementia outcomes in Indigenous and rural communities.
- Sociology’s recent PhD graduate Michael Miner publishes an articleMichael Miner (‘20, PhD Sociology) argued the case for hiring sociologists both in academia and in the private sector in an article he wrote for Footnotes, the magazine of the American Sociological Association.
- Tim O’Brien’s recent work with graduate students is highlighted in the August 2022 edition of UWM’s In FocusProf. Timothy L. O’Brien and Graduate Students Stephen L. Hawkins, and Adam Loesch (all Sociology). 2022. Scientific Disciplines and the Admissibility of Expert Evidence in Courts. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 8.
- Phys.org reported on a study co-authored by Prof. Aki Roberts & Prof. John RobertsPhys.org reported on a study co-authored by Sociology Professor Aki Roberts and Professor John Roberts suggesting that police violence, especially against Black people, decreases police agencies’ effectiveness by reinforcing citizens’ cynicism with policing.
- Jennifer Jordan selected as a UW System Fellow to complete book on hopsSociology Professor Jennifer Jordan was selected as a UW System Fellow at the Institute for Research on the Humanities at at UW-Madison to complete her book on hops. In Focus May 2022 — Vol. 12, No. 5