News and Events
Congratulations to Amy Turim
Amy Turim, a recent graduate of the sociology department (2006), was just awarded UWM’s prestigious GOLD (Graduate of the Last Decade) Award for 2012. This award recognizes graduates who have achieved a measure of success in their field bringing credit to themselves and the University. As a professional in Community Housing Management, Amy works with families living below the poverty line on housing and other issues. She is the president of the Garden Homes Land Compact, which is an organization dedicated to urban revitalization and is also actively involved in Milwaukee in a number of other volunteer and leadership activities. In her professional and volunteer roles, Amy represents the best and the brightest of the UWM alumni community. Of her sociology education, she says she uses many of the things she learned in the sociology department on a daily basis. We are proud to count Amy among our graduates!
The UWM Graduate School recently honored winners of graduate fellowships with a luncheon and free tickets to a men’s Panther basketball game. Sociology was well- represented by honorees Karen Smith, Miguel Alvelo-Rivera, Jennifer Schopp, and Atiera Coleman, pictured here with friends, Sociology faculty members, and Victor E. Panther.
2011-12 EventsAugust: Prof Kent Redding, Associate Professor and Chair, Sociology Department, UWM, was a guest on Wisconsin Public Radio program At Issue with Ben Meren to talk about the mob incident at the Wisconsin State Fair.
September: Noelle Chesley, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UWM, Colloquium, Technology Use and 21st Century Employment Implications for Job Conditions and Worker Strain and Distress
October: Pat Rubio Goldsmith, Associate Professor of Sociology, UWM, Colloquium, Coleman Revisited: School Segregation, Peers and Frog Ponds
February: Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UW–M, Relationship Churning, Physical Violence, and Verbal Abuse in Young Adult Relationship
March: Sociology Graduate Student Lunch & Learn, Hosted by Noelle Chesley, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UW–M, Featuring Britta Johnson, recent UW–M MA Graduate
"From the Academy to the Job Market: Translating Your MA Skills for Potential Employers"
March: Kuang-chi Chang, Assistant Professor, UW–M, "A Path to Understanding Guanxi in China's Transitional Economy: Variations on Network Behavior"
March: Sociology Honor Society Alpha Kappa Delta Induction & Department Awards Ceremony
April: Graduate Student Colloquium–Panel presentations by Caitlin Hawley, Matt McCarthy, Katherine Quinn, and DJ Wolover
Sociology Undergraduate Awards
The following sociology majors (some pictured above) were honored at the 2012 Undergraduate Awards Ceremony and Alpha Kappa Initiation held in April, 2012:
Jesse J. Clark, recipient of the 2011-12 Joan W. Moore Service-Scholar Award
Cara Hoth, TaKeesha Scheel and Martha Willet, recipients of the 2011-12 Sociology Distinguished Scholar Award
2010-11 Events
September: Noelle Chesley, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UWM, Colloquium, Stay-at-Home Fathers and Breadwinning Mothers
October: Kent Redding, Associate Professor of Sociology, UWM, Colloquium, Incorporation from Above or Below? Paths to Citizenship for European Women and Men, 1848–1948
December: Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Franklin & Marshall College, Colloquium, It's Not Like I'm Poor: The Financial Lives of Working People
December: Department Teaching Colloquium
February: Jennifer Jordan, Associate Professor of Sociology, UWM, Biodiversity and Collective Memory
March: Sociology Honor Society Alpha Kappa Delta Induction and Awards Ceremony
April: Jane Collins, Evjue Bascom Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology/Gender & Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, presented the Spring Distinguished Lecture, Reconfiguring the Social Contract: What Welfare Changes Mean for Low-Wage Labor
April: Graduate Students Mark Caldwell, Britta Johnson and Pa Nhia Lee Research Panel
2010-11 Faculty in the MediaAssistant Professor Noelle Chesley comments on some new research linking technology and work/family boundaries in the article "Women Feel More Guilt, Distress About Work Intrusions at Home, Study Says" in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services on-line newsletter healthfinder.gov