About Research interests Science and technology studies (sociology and politics of science and technology) Social theories of power and government Biopolitics, Foucault Social theories of territory with a focus on borders Political and cultural geography Borders: This research is meant to be a book-length project on the history of the concept of borders in modernity, …
About I am a historian of the twentieth-century United States, with a particular focus and expertise in African American history. While I am interested in the history of social movements, urban history, and a range of other subjects, I am especially interested in the history of the criminal punishment system in the United States: how …
About I am a scholar of international and global history, with a focus on Europe. I investigate how European internationalist movements sought to grow their global reach, even as they remained ensconced within exclusionary understandings of social justice and solidarity. My work is centrally concerned with European imperialism and its legacies. A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The …
About My research focuses on school food politics and systems change at multiple scales from local to global. I bring a care economy and labor-centered perspective to this work, as in my award-winning first book The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools (University of California Press, 2019), and …
About Armando Ibarra is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the School for Workers/Department of Labor Education and holds a joint appointment with Chican@ and Latin@ Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He served as Director of the CLS Program from 2018 to 2021. Having earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University …
About Katherine Jensen is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She earned her PhD in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin in 2018, with a Doctoral Portfolio in African and African Diaspora Studies. Before joining the University of Wisconsin, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the …
About As a researcher, teacher and activist, Dr. Loustaunau has led multiple research projects focusing on job quality, public policy, and collective organizing. Her work has been published in Labor Studies Journal, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Sociological Perspectives. She has also been a Vice President at Large at the American Federation of Teachers-Oregon, …
About I am a feminist geographer whose work focuses on racism and state violence. One thread of my research focuses on health and the social production of health inequities. This focus can be seen in Health Rights Are Civil Rights on US-based health activism and more recent research and teaching on how health concepts and practices intersect …
About Viren Murthy’s work probes the historical conditions for the possibility of philosophy and politics in the modern world, and in East Asia in particular. He is broadly interested in attempts by East Asian intellectuals to resist modernity through reviving premodern philosophies and religions such as Buddhism. His recent monographs include The Politics of Time in …
About Joel Rogers is the Noam Chomsky Professor of Law, Public Affairs, and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He directs the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice and the High Road Strategy Center, a think-and-do tank on high-road development that also operates the Mayors Innovation Project, State Smart Transportation Initiative (with Smart Growth America), Government Performance Action & Learning (GPAL), and ProGov21. Rogers has written widely …