Carillon Tower and the Sewell Social Science Building during autumn.

The Havens Wright Center is dedicated to promoting critical intellectual reflection & exchange, both within academia and between it & the broader society.

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Established in the Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1984, the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice is dedicated to promoting critical intellectual reflection and exchange, both within the academy as well as between it and the broader society. The Center is named in honor of the late Professors of Rural Sociology and Sociology, A. Eugene Havens and Erik Olin Wright, whose lives and work embodied the combination of progressive social and political commitment and scholarly rigor that the Center encourages.

From the Archive

Amahl Bishara on “Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence & Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression.”