Congratulations to CDE graduate students Ellen Dinsmore and Catherine Doren, who completed their PhDs in sociology this summer. Dinsmore’s research focuses on crime, deviance, and social control. Her dissertation, “Blurring the Thin Blue Line: The Rise of the Military Model in U.S. Policing,” examined the increased use of military strategies and equipment by American law enforcement. Dinsmore’s work …
Welcome to John Eason (sociology), CDE’s newest faculty affiliate. Eason came to Madison from Texas A&M, where he was an associate professor of sociology. In his research, Eason challenges existing models and develops new theories of community, health, race, punishment, and rural/urban processes. In 2017, he published Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and …
On September 24, Bill Frey, a senior fellow at Brookings and research professor at Michigan’s Population Studies Center, was the keynote speaker at a special Demography Seminar (DemSem). Frey is an internationally-known demographer who conducts research on urban populations, migration, immigration, race, aging, and political demographics. At the event, co-sponsored by the La Follette School …
The 2017–18 academic year has come to a close, making it a great time to reflect back on what has been accomplished at CDE since September. “It’s an exciting time to be at CDE, with an exceptional interdisciplinary group of faculty, thoughtful and hardworking students and postdocs, and top-notch staff who support the Center’s various …
In February 2017, UW–Madison’s School of Education launched the Grand Challenges grant program to support research and practice in education, health, and creative expression. In its inaugural year, Grand Challenges funded four Transform Grants (up to $250,000) and eight Engage awards (up to $25,000). CDE affiliate Eric Grodsky (sociology) will collaborate on the project, “FOCUS …
Congratulations to four CDE students who completed their doctoral work in May 2018: Zack Barnett-Howell, Rachel Frattarola, Jinho Kim, and Stephanie Koning. Zack Barnett-Howell completed a joint PhD in agricultural and applied economics and political science. His dissertation, “Essays on Migration, Decision Making, and Optimization,” examines how states and individuals make decisions when outcomes are …
Eric Grodsky (sociology) received a grant from the Spencer Foundation for the project “The Madison Education Partnership: Collaborating around the Transition to Kindergarten.” Together with co-principal investigators Elizabeth Vaade, Caroline Racine Gilles, and Culleen Witthuhn of the Madison Metropolitan School District, Grodsky will lead a project to address the challenges facing children and families as …
Five CDE affiliates are taking part in new research funded by the UW2020 initiative, a competitive grant program that supports collaborative, highly innovative projects that have the potential to fundamentally transform a field of study. Katherine Curtis (community and environmental sociology) is a co-principal investigator for a project that will launch a campus-wide data science …
Each spring, extraordinary members of the faculty receive prestigious awards supported by the estate of William F. Vilas (1840–1908), a former UW professor and regent. This year, three CDE faculty affiliates were among those honored. Katherine Magnuson (social work) received a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship, an award recognizing distinguished scholarship and standout efforts in teaching …
CDE extends a warm welcome to three new affiliates, Lindsay Jacobs, Hyunseung Kang, and Jeffrey Smith. Jacobs joined the La Follette School of Public Affairs in January 2018 as an assistant professor. Jacobs specializes in labor economics, particularly among older populations, and her research focuses on retirement preparedness and the interactions among health, jobs tasks, …