CRLS student Ashley Casteneda shares her experiences and advice as a first-generation student
Dr. Erin Hoekstra's research featured in Conversations in Jesuit Higher Education
Catch up on all the new and exciting things happening in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences (SOCS). Read the 2021-2022 SOCS Newsletter here.
SOWJ Prof. Wendy Volz Daniels leads opposition to making Felmer O. Chaney Ctr. the site of new youth detention facility
SOWJ Student Lisset Perez Jaramillo named the 2022 recipient of the Rev. Andrew J. Thon, S.J. Award for Leadership
SOCS student Chris King ('22) creates men's discussion group during internship experience at MU Wellness Center
SOWJ Prof. Wendy Volz Daniels leads opposition to making Felmer O. Chaney Ctr. the site of new youth detention facility
Watch Dr. Jonah Birch's talk on The Politics of Working Time: Business, Labor, and the Fight over France's 35-Hour Work Week
SOWJ Student Lisset Perez Jaramillo named the 2022 recipient of the Rev. Andrew J. Thon, S.J. Award for Leadership
Dr. Heather Hlavka's research featured in documentary Justice in Movement: Reclaiming our Minds, Bodies, and City (by student filmmaker Tess Murphy). Learn more at @justiceinmovement (Instagram) and @justiceinmove (Twitter).
Watch SOCS alum Amber Powell's talk on Gender, Race, and Coercive Sexual Control
Congratulations to SOCS student Emma Hudson-Mairet, who has been selected as one of Marquette’s entries for the inaugural Big East undergraduate research symposium
Dr. Heather Hlavka's project helps women process trauma through exercise
COSC student Riley Keating ('23) describes research project completed with Dr. Aleks Snowden during summer data science REU
Dr. Aleksandra Snowden honored with Community Engaged Teaching Award
Listen here to a podcast featuring SOWJ professor Dr. Alexandra Crampton where she discusses the challenges of decolonizing social work.
SOWJ student Paige Stoeffler ('23) writes and illustrates a lyrical picture book, Sometimes Things Happen, designed to help young readers through the process of coping with emotions that result when things don't go their way or when events are out of their control.
SOCS student Alyssa Spies ('23 ) is completing her internship at Table of Saints and has led two Let’s Talk About It discussions (on eviction and accessible healthcare for the formerly incarcerated)
Watch Dr. Rodrigues' REIS colloquium presentation, "Supportive networks and equitable relationships: Creating an inclusive, decolonial culture of science"
Dr. Aleksandra Snowden and Dr. Heather Hlavka among 2021 recipients of the President's Challenge for Racial Justice and Equity
SOWJ alum Samira Payne selected as Marquette's first Director of Black Student Initiatives
Dr. Louise Cainkar honored with Community Engaged Teaching Award
Dr. Darren Wheelock and team are awarded $745k Mellon grant to support the Education Preparedness Program (EPP), an initiative that will help those impacted by incarceration succeed in higher education
Dr. David Nowacek's MOI course on climate change featured in Best Practices in Jesuit Higher Education magazine
Dr. Michael McCarthy wins prestigious Berggruen Institute Fellowship at USC for 2021-2022
Watch the Pere Marquette Award Ceremony featuring Dr. Darren Wheelock (2020 recipient of the University Excellence in Teaching award)
Dr. Michelle Rodrigues' research on the effect of friends on cortisol levels was featured in the Atlanta Journal Constitution
Dr. Aleksandra Snowden discusses factors contributing to the increase in alcohol-related deaths in Wisconsin
Dr. Cainkar discusses taking a stand against anti-Asian violence
Dr. Roberta Coles retires after 25 years
Meet Dr. Michelle Rodrigues and watch her trailer for ANTH 2201. Human Evolutionary Process
Ms. Volz Daniels featured in article about the needs of underpriveledged children
Dr. Cainkar's Islam Immersion trip featured in Wisconsin Muslim Journal.
SOCS faculty Erin Hoekstra and Sameena Mulla discuss Race, Immigration and COVID
SOCS Faculty release "Dear Students" letter in response to the George Floyd protests and calls for racial justice
Dr. Darren Wheelock receives Way Klingler Teaching Enhancement Award,is honored with University Excellence in Teaching Award
MU's Criminology program ranks in top 20 of Criminology bachelor's degrees nationwide
Dr. Jane Peterson's Bronzeville research featured in Marquette's A&S magazine
Dr. Jesse Cheng writes op-ed “How the new constitutional amendment should protect victims of police brutality”
Dr. Alexandra Crampton cautions against the use of war metaphors in efforts to combat the coronavirus
Dr. Louise Cainkar discusses her research on American Muslims
Dr. Michael McCarthy’s book wins multiple awards.
Apply for an Islam and Muslims interfaith immersion experience to travel to Dearborn and Hamtramck, Michigan over spring break. Deadline is 12/31/2017.
Dr. Lynch presented at the "Principles in Crisis" panel at the Conference by Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network
Social Welfare and Justice alum, Amanda Avalos, committed to helping Milwaukee's communities of color thrive
The book by Dr. Holstein and Dr. Jones won the Outstanding Book Award by the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Dr. Hlavka publishes a blog titled "How can a "Real man" be raped?"
The study abroad program led by Dr. Wheelock is featured on OIE website
Read about Emily Lynch's ongoing fieldwork with Congolese refugees
Applications now being solicited for CRLS Outstanding Senior. Apply here by March 6.
Social and Cultural Science New Hire- Dr. Aleksandra Snowden
Social and Cultural Science New Hire - Dr. Emily Lynch
Apply for an Islam and Muslims interfaith immersion experience to travel to Dearborn and Hamtramck, Michigan over the Spring break. Deadline is January 30, 2017
Please join us in the Grand Ballroom of the AMU, November 1 at 5pm for a special lecture by Dr. Michael Kimmel.
Take a written exam with the Madison Police Department
Apply now for two CRLS scholarships (the Jay Balchunas Memorial Scholarship and the Journal Foundation Francis G. and Jane Keogh Kelly Scholarship)
Dr. Michael Krzewinski wins the Outstanding Part-Time Faculty Award
Learn about our new interdisciplinary minor in Culture, Health and Illness
Explore our new interdisciplinary minor in Law and Society
Two Professors Observed Over 650 Court Cases to Write Book on Sexual Violence Research
New Director Angelique Harris says Center for Gender and Sexualities will Focus on Research
Dr. Meghan Stroshine quoted in a story on Time Magazine's website
Students, join Social and Cultural Sciences on April 28th for the Research Salon.
Hlavka and Mulla's Research Featured in Medical Anthropology Series
Dr. Dawne Moon receives $190,000 Templeton Foundation Award to study reconciliation between Evangelicals and LGBT people
Dr. Semukhina presented a lecture titled "Public-Police Contacts in Russia: Revisiting the Predatory Model of Policing "at the Center for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
CRLS Student Luis Feliciano Goes for Boxing Gold
Social and Cultural Sciences New Hire - Dr. Jesse Cheng
Two criminology scholarships are available for undergraduate students. Please apply by 9/21/15
Dr. Angelique Harris discusses community health initiative in Lindsay Heights neighborhood
Dr. Dawne Moon receives Way Klingler Sabbatical Award
Annual McGee lecture was conducted on April 27 at 3:30 p.m. in Raynor Library.
The second Annual Research Salon was conducted on April 23 from 5-7 pm in Lalumiere #177
Social and Cultural Sciences new hire – Wendy Volz Daniels
Social and Cultural Sciences new hire – Michael McCarthy
Dr. James Holstein receives Marquette University Research Excellence Award
Dr. Roberta Coles research on black fathers is featured online, written by Marquette student, Wyatt Massey
Dr. Hlavka’s research on sexual violence is featured on Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS)