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 …