Jennifer Sheridan

Credentials: PhD

Position title: Executive & Research Director, WISELI

Email: jennifer.sheridan@wisc.edu

Dr. Sheridan (she/her) received her PhD from the Department of Sociology at UW-Madison in August 2001, specializing in social stratification and quantitative research methods. Her graduate work focused on the social origins and implications of occupational sex segregation. Her publications cover topics such as measurement of occupational standing, long-term effects of childhood abuse, and her current line of inquiry, the status of women in science and engineering.

As WISELI’s former executive and research director, Dr. Sheridan developed and oversaw the workshops and grant programs administered by WISELI, as well as the research and evaluation produced by WISELI including seven waves of the Study of Faculty Worklife climate surveys. She is nationally recognized for having educated faculty about unconscious/implicit bias in academic settings, including the hiring process. The WISELI team designed and has delivered hundreds of faculty workshops related to implicit bias on the UW–‍Madison campus since 2004, and has delivered workshops or talks on the topic to over 40 campuses or groups of campuses outside UW-Madison since 2005.

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