Sociology

Gina Marie Longo, Ph.D., received her doctorate from the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research agenda contributes to knowledge about digital spaces, intersectional identities, citizenship, nationalism and inequality with implications for the sociologies of migration, gender, race and politics. She recently completed her postdoctoral research position on the Access to Justice Project at the University of Wisconsin, Madison’s Law School, which explores the challenges to self-representation that low-income, non-custodial parents experience throughout child support court. Her current project employs mixed methods to investigate how U.S. citizens negotiate immigration officials’ demands that they prove their marriages are authentic.

Her recent Gender & Society article, “Keeping it in ‘the Family’: How Gender Norms Shape U.S. Marriage Migration Politics,” has received awards for outstanding scholarship from ASA’s International Migration Section, the Eastern Sociological Association and the University of Wisconsin’s interdisciplinary Research Center on Gender and Women, and has been featured in Sage Publication’s Gender & Society Podcast and the London School of Economics’ US Centre blog.

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For the Spring 2020 semester, Professor Longo will be instructing a newly redesigned research methods course for the department's Digital Sociology graduate program. SOCY-656 Digital Research Methods and Design will introduce students to the tools needed for analyzing "native-born" data in order to explain how human behavior both shapes and is shaped by digital data. Methods taught in the course include digital ethnography, digital content analysis, data sampling from social media, and twitter hashtag sampling, all complemented by an introduction to the Python programming language.