Jeremy Freese

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Jeremy Freese (born March 15, 1971 in Fort Dodge, Iowa) is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently on leave and holds a position as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University; he earlier earned a Master's degree from the same institution. In 2001, he was awarded the American Sociological Association Dissertation Award for “What Should Sociology Do About Darwin: Evaluating Some Potential Contributions of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology to Sociology.” Freese has also taught at the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods at the University of Michigan.

An Iowa native, Freese spent his childhood on the Freese Family Farm near the town of Manson. Upon graduating high school, Freese attended and graduated from the University of Iowa, which began his trek of employment or attendance through the schools of the Big Ten Conference.

In 2003, Freese created an popular eponymous weblog.