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She joined the department of
Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980 and has twice served as the department's chair, from 2004 to 2007 and from 2013 to 2016. In 2012, she received the John D. McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and
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