Sociology Professor Elizabeth Heger Boyle has received funding from the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the NICHD, and UNICEF to research and improve women and children's health in low- and middle-income countries.
"I was inspired to come to UMN Sociology because of all of the really great work happening at the Minnesota Population Center and in the department, and the amazing reputation of your program."
Associate Professor Elizabeth Wrigley-Field's study on racial disparities in the number of COVID cases reveal disparities in the health care system is featured in this UPI article.
This week on Dialogue Minnesota, a look at how sports became a platform for expressing ideological views and how today’s athletes are using their celebrity to promote racial equity. Joining us is Douglass Hartmann, a professor and chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Minnesota. He is an expert on the sociology of sport.
In America, how long you live depends on the color of your skin. Assistant professor of sociology Elizabeth Wrigley-Field helps reveal that if Black people were immune to the coronavirus, their mortality rate in 2020 would still likely surpass white people's.
University of Minnesota sociology Prof. Michelle Phelps says that other cities experienced unrest after a controversial police killing, not because police were being less proactive, but because a lack of community confidence created an atmosphere of lawlessness. Slower response times only further chipped away at public trust, she says, creating a “self-fulfilling cycle.”
"They respond to family disturbances, elder abuse, a culture of homelessness, traffic, all kinds of things they're not necessarily trained to do," said Page. "In many cases, they don't want to be doing a lot of these things. Police chiefs sometimes ask: 'Why are we expected to be a social worker, an elder specialist, a superhuman?" Professor Joshua Page is quoted in this Star Tribune article.
Whether it's raising chickens, building a "catio" or planting a pollinator garden, "there's a lot of joy in not postponing what you want to do." Professor Phyllis Moen is quoted in this Star Tribune article.
There are large disparities in COVID-related unemployment, with the largest proportional losses among Latinx and less-educated workers. The effects have been particularly felt among children. Professors Rob Warren and Ann Meier are co-authors of this article published in Econofact.
