{"id":126,"date":"2014-08-05T17:42:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/?p=126"},"modified":"2014-08-05T17:42:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T17:42:57","slug":"welcome-kristen-lavelle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/2014\/08\/05\/welcome-kristen-lavelle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Kristen Lavelle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/files\/2014\/08\/Lavelle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122 alignright\" alt=\"Lavelle\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/files\/2014\/08\/Lavelle.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">It is the College\u2019s pleasure to welcome a new faculty member to the University of Wisconsin \u2013 Whitewater.\u00a0 Kristen Lavelle will begin her career as\u00a0an Assistant Professor of Sociology in our Department of the Sociology, Criminology &amp; Anthropology this fall.\u00a0 Kristen graduated with her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Arkansas, her M.A. in Sociology from the University of Florida, and her PhD in Sociology from Texas A&amp;M University.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><b>Here is some interesting information about Kristen:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Hobbies:\u00a0 Running, cooking, gardening, board games<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Research:\u00a0 I study the sociology of race and ethnicity and social inequalities.\u00a0 My research interests are: racism &amp; antiracism, whiteness and identity, social memory, and qualitative research methods.\u00a0 For my Ph.D. research I conducted interview with elder white southerners on their memories and perceptions of the legal segregation and civil rights eras.\u00a0 In my analysis I highlight how they reconcile historical realities (segregation as oppressive, civil rights as a justice movement) with their own need to maintain a positive identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Family: My partner Nick is the other pea in my pod.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the College\u2019s pleasure to welcome a new faculty member to the University of Wisconsin \u2013 Whitewater.\u00a0 Kristen Lavelle will begin her career as\u00a0an Assistant Professor of Sociology in our Department of the Sociology, Criminology &amp; Anthropology this fall.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/2014\/08\/05\/welcome-kristen-lavelle-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/uwwcols\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}