Dr. Sarah “Frankie” Frank

Dr. Frank is a faculty lecturer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Legal Studies with the Center for Law, Society & Justice. She also founded and serves as the director of the Institute for Gender Research in Law & Litigation, the largest qualitative gender/sexuality law research lab for undergraduate students in the United States.

Courses include: Law, Sexuality & Society; Women & the Law; Sociology of Health and Medicine; Sociology of Marriage & Family; Sociology of Sex & Gender; Corrections; Gender, Crime & Justice; Criminology; Survey of Sociology; Sociological Enterprise

Research interests include: gender, sexuality, law, criminology, menstruation, queer theory, relationships, intimacy, sex roles, bodies & embodiment, institutions and regulation, intersectionality, qualitative methods, online ethnography, teaching

Publications & Writing

Public Sociology

Teaching & Curriculum

  • Courses Created & Developed, Instructor
    • Law, Sexuality & Society
    • Gender, Crime & Justice
    • Women & the Law
    • Introduction to LGBTQIA Studies
    • The Sociological Enterprise (Introductory Sociology)
    • Sociology of Sex & Gender
    • Pornography & Censorship
    • Corrections
    • Criminology
    • Law & Social Change
    • Sociology of Health & Medicine
    • Independent Study/Practicum Research with the Institute for Gender Research in Law & Litigation (iGRILL)
    • Senior Thesis, Department of Sociology and Center for Law, Society & Justice
  • Awards & Recognition
    • Consortium for Undergraduate Law & Justice Programs, 2023 Teaching Innovation Award in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Teaching
    • University of Wisconsin Center for Law, Society & Justice Nominee for CULJP Teaching Innovation Award (2023)
    • Elizabethtown College, Richard Crocker Scholarship Winner (2023)
      • Awarded to one faculty member per year by entire student body, staff, and faculty
      • Recognizes outstanding faculty or staff who have made a lasting impact on the college community and students.
    • Elizabethtown College, Emergent Scholars Mentor Award (2023)
      • Nominated by students who attained a 3.75 GPA or above by the end of their first 3 terms
    • Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society Teaching Fellow
  • Other Instruction Experience
    • Institute for Gender Research in Law & Litigation, Qualitative Gender Research Undergraduate Lab Founder (2018-present)
      • Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies Grant (2020)
      • UW Madison Dept. of Sociology Grants (2019-2024)
    • UW Madison Senior Theses Supervisor (Sociology, Legal Studies) (2020-present)
    • Alpha Kappa Delta Graduate Teaching Workshops, Midwest Sociological Society, 2019-2022
    • UW Madison Department of Sociology Teaching Assistant Instruction & Support 2017-2024

Memberships Include: American Sociological Association, National Women’s Studies Association, Sociologists for Women in Society, Midwest Sociological Society, Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honors Society, Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, Law & Society Association

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Daily Wisdom

To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of ‘commonsense’ ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.

-Patricia Hill Collins

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