Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin Madison
Department News
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On December 4, 2009, Jane Collins will begin her two-year term as President of the American Ethnological Society. Founded in 1842, the AES is the oldest professional anthropological organization in the United States. Today a section of the American Anthropological Association, the AES is a thriving group of nearly 4,000 anthropologists who organize an annual meeting, publish the journal American Ethnologist, and carry on a variety of activities to promote scholarship on "ethnology in the broader sense of the term."
Randy Stoecker has a new book out, entitled "The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning." The book is featured in Inside Higher Ed's online newsletter.
A study led by Jill Harrison on foreign-born laborers on Wisconsin dairy farms is featured in the summer 2009 issue of Grow Magazine.
Julie Keller, a doctoral candidate in the department, has won the 2009 Graduate Student Paper Award of the Rural Sociological Society. Julie's paper, entitled "Re-Framing 'the Closet' for the Rural: Queer Theory and Women Farmers in Wisconsin," is based on one of the papers she submitted for her preliminary doctoral exam in the Sociology of Agrofood Systems. Julie is co-advised by professors Michael Bell and Jill Harrison.
Sharon Adams has been selected to receive the Rural Sociological Society's Distinguished Service to Rural Life Award for 2009. Nominating her was a department effort, with support from the Dean's office and her many admirers around the state.
Heather O'Connell received an award for her poster at the Population Association of America meeting and an honorable mention on her pre-dissertation proposal to the National Science Foundation. Both focus on her master's project on racial inequality in southern poverty.
Katie Zaman was awarded a 2009-10 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship from Global Studies for Indonesian language training and migration studies.
Mike Dougherty was awarded the Thomsen Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship Award, which is based on excellent academic performance and research productivity during graduate study. This fellowship, offered by CALS, was established by Louis and Elsa Thomsen. Mike is currently in Central America collecting data for his dissertation, which is concerned with the development implications of the new mineral economies of Guatemala and El Salvador. The award is for the period September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
Becky Schewe was awarded the Senator Robert Caldwell Graduate Fellowship Award, which is based on excellent academic performance and research productivity during graduate study. This fellowship, offered by CALS, was established by Grace Caldwell Hopkins on behalf of her father, Senator Robert Caldwell. Becky is currently in New Zealand studying neoliberalizaton and reregulation of New Zealand's dairy industry. The award is for the period September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010.
