Please help us remember Andrea Sperka and help other generous students like her this Day of the Badger. dayofthebadger.org/campaign/soc...

David Montalvo wins Early Excellence in Teaching Award David Montalvo has been selected to receive a 2025-26 Campus-Wide TA Award. He is one of eleven recipients of the Early Excellence in Teaching Award, which honors TAs with fewer than four semesters of...

Congratulations to David Montalvo, who has been selected to receive a 2025-26 Campus-Wide TA Award!

Nicholas Mark, Ethan J. Raker, and Gerard Torrats-Espinosa published "Severe Tornadoes and Infant Birth Weight in the United States" in Demography. doi.org/10.1215/0070...

The Role of Social Inequality in Parent Engagement This book highlights how social inequality shapes parent engagement, from resources available to parents and parenting logics to school responses to families and their engagement. It also provides mul...

Kaitlyn A. Orick and @jessicacalarco.com published the chapter "Not Your Mom, Teacher: How Parenting Logics Shaped School Enrollment Decisions in the Context of Covid-19" in The Role of Social Inequality in Parent Engagement: From Inequality to Social Justice in Education.

Sociology students present research findings about equity in education to MMSD leaders Students in the sociology class “Research to Enhance Equity in Education” studied real data from the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD). Their research question: Which families are opting not...

Students in the sociology class “Research to Enhance Equity in Education” studied real data from the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD). Their research question: Which families are opting not to enroll their children in the Madison school district, and why?

“The Hamster Wheel Is on Fire”: How the Pandemic Amplified Inequality in the Academy Institutional practices often recreate inequalities within organizations, especially in times of crisis like the COVID pandemic. Although early pandemic research expressed alarm that increased caregi...

Daniela Campos Ugaz, Catherine Albiston, Tonya Brito, and Cathy Hu published "“The Hamster Wheel Is on Fire”: How the Pandemic Amplified Inequality in the Academy” in Gender, Work & Organization. #AcademicSky
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Curtis Yarvin: Postliberalism with Computational Characteristics As the authoritarian right advances in the United States, developing an accurate understanding of its worldview is a task of some urgency. One way of doing so is by considering the writings of one of ...

James Rosenberg published "Curtis Yarvin: Postliberalism with Computational Characteristics" in the IWMPost. www.iwm.at/publication/....

Karl Vachuska and Meghann Norden-Bright published "Mobility patterns predict increasing polarization between neighborhoods" in Social Science Research. doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Rose Lavelle named Female Player of the Year by U.S. Soccer In 2017, Sociology major Rose Lavelle graduated from UW-Madison. Fast forward to today, and Rose has added another achievement to her impressive resume: she was named the 2025 Female Player of the Yea...

In 2017, Sociology major Rose Lavelle graduated from UW-Madison. Fast forward to today, and Rose has added another achievement to her impressive resume: she was named the 2025 Female Player of the Year by U.S. Soccer!

Morgan Henson selected for the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Morgan Henson has been selected for induction into the prestigious Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. This national society recognizes exceptional scholarly achievement and personal excellence ...

This national society recognizes exceptional scholarly achievement and personal excellence among doctoral students, and fosters a network of scholars committed to leadership, service, and advocacy in the academy. sociology.wisc.edu/2026/01/12/m...

Economic Abuse, Compared to Emotional Abuse and Physical Abuse, Is Minimized More, Victims Are Blamed More, and Victims Are Provided with Less Legal Advice Economic Abuse (EA) is an understudied phenomenon experienced by Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) victims. The purpose of this study was to examine how participants minimized IPV, blamed IPV victims, a...

“We discuss the need to raise public awareness of EA and the importance of extending more social resources to EA victims." -Alice Nuo-Yi Wangorcid, Niwako Yamawakiorcid, Yuki Nohagiorcid, Rachel Umphress, Jane Greenorcid, Catalina Valdezorcid in Psychology.
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James Rosenberg co-PI for “What’s in my e-wallet? Citizen perceptions of the EU digital identity wallet across Europe” James Rosenberg will be co-PI on a competitive WZB Cross-Sector Collaborations Grant entitled “What’s in my e-wallet? Citizen perceptions of the EU digital identity wallet across Europe,” which will f...

Congratulations, James Rosenberg! sociology.wisc.edu/2026/01/14/j...

"The outsized impact of behavioral causes of death underscores their strategic importance for improving longevity in the United States.” -Glenn Firebaugh and Michael T. Light in @sociusjournal.bsky.social
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Childhood fluoride exposure and cognition across the life course Childhood fluoride exposure is associated with higher academic achievement in high school.

"We find that children exposed to recommended levels of fluoride in drinking water exhibit modestly better cognition in secondary school...” -Eric Grodsky and colleagues in Science Advances.
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Jane Ahn selected as a TA Fellow Jane Ahn has been selected as a Writing-Across-the-Curriculum TA Fellow for her work as a Communication-B instructor, mentoring over 120 new communication assistants in courses from various discipline...

Congratulations to Jane Ahn, who was recognized for her work mentoring Teaching Assistants and named a Writing-Across-the-Curriculum TA Fellow. sociology.wisc.edu/2025/12/08/j...

Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarker Concentrations by Race and Ethnicity in Midlife This cohort study investigates race and ethnicity differences in plasma concentrations for biomarkers of Alzheimer disease and assesses the association between these biomarkers and medical conditions ...

"The incidence and prevalence of clinical Alzheimer disease (AD) are higher among Black and Latinx older adults than among White older adults.” -Eric Grodsky and colleagues in @jamanetworkopen.com doi.org/10.1001/jama...

"This would provide tools with which to grasp empirical phenomena of interest to economic sociologists, political economists, and policy scholars that elude existing sociological approaches.” -James Rosenberg, @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social
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"We find gender differences in associations between spousal cognitive decline and marital strain."

Meiyi Li, Yiang Li, and Michal Engelman in Social Science & Medicine. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

How does life course exposure to contextual disadvantage accelerate biological aging? The role of psychological symptoms AbstractObjectives. Recent research has found that life course exposure to contextual socioeconomic disadvantage may accelerate biological aging, providing

Christina Kamis, Wei Xu, Amy Schultz, Joseph Clark, Michal Engelman, and Kristen Malecki published "How Does Life Course Exposure to Contextual Disadvantage Accelerate Biological Aging? The Role of Psychological Symptoms" in The Journals of Gerontology Series B. doi.org/10.1093/gero...

The Oxford Handbook of Social Stratification Abstract. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot ad

"The heterogeneous inequality and social stratification trajectories of the countries in question suggest that there is still room to theorize divergent outcomes.” -Theodore P. Gerber & Michael Zaslavsky, "Inequality and Stratification in the Transitions from Socialism"
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Danielle Schmidt receives 2025 CIAS Graduate Student Summer Research Mini-Grant Danielle Schmidt received a 2025 Graduate Student Summer Research Mini-Grant from the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS). She interviewed ranchers in northeastern Montana for her study ...

Congrats to Danielle Schmidt, who received a grant for her research on agricultural land transitioning to conservation reserves. sociology.wisc.edu/2025/11/26/d...

Bijoyetri Samaddar receives Midwest Sociological Society scholarship Bijoyetri Samaddar received a scholarship from the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) for her research into knowledge production in policy-oriented organizations. The next MSS Annual Meeting will be M...

Congratulations to Bijoyetri Samaddar, who received a scholarship from the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) for her research into knowledge production in policy-oriented organizations! sociology.wisc.edu/2025/11/21/b...

"While scholars show that child protection is tied to the regulation of motherhood, we know little about how mothers of color were treated in early child welfare history." -Michaela Simmons in Gender & Society.
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Max Besbris speaks on National Academies panel Max Besbris spoke on a National Academies panel entitled “Extreme Weather Events and Insurance: Households, Homeowners, and Risk.” A recording of the event is available to view here. He discussed rese...

Max Besbris spoke on a National Academies panel entitled "Extreme Weather Events and Insurance: Households, Homeowners, and Risk." sociology.wisc.edu/2025/11/17/m...

Decriminalizing or reassembling schools? Implications of removing police from schools for racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice system contact ABSTRACT. Calls to remove school-based law enforcement (SBLE) have grown in tandem with widespread SBLE presence. Central to these calls are issues of equi

Catalina Valdez, Benjamin W. Fisher, and Abigail J. Beneke published "Decriminalizing or reassembling schools? Implications of removing police from schools for racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice system contact" in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/socp...

Youbin Kang named co-winner of Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award Alum Youbin Kang (2024) was named one of two co-winners of the Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award from the Comparative Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. She’s curren...

Ph.D. alum Youbin Kang (2024) was named one of two co-winners of the Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award from the Comparative Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association for her dissertation, “Underground Labor and the Politics of Money in Public Transit.”

Dementia prevalence in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study INTRODUCTION While there is growing appreciation of the importance of sociobiological determinants of dementia, few lifespan cohorts offer well-characterized dementia outcomes to explore these aims......

"While there is growing appreciation of the importance of sociobiological determinants of dementia, few lifespan cohorts offer well‐characterized dementia outcomes to explore these aims." @cdhauw.bsky.social @cdeuw.bsky.social

Podcasts | American Sociological Association Each month, several authors of articles published in ASA journals record podcasts in which they provide, through an interview format, an overview of their

Katherine Jensen, @bwitkovsky.bsky.social, and Monika Krause's article, “Human Rights as a Lay Category of Thought,” was the featured Socius article in the ASA Journals Newsletter. Listen to the accompanying podcast about the article here. www.asanet.org/publications...
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<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library The extent to which women outlive men in the United States has fluctuated over the 20th century, with periods of equalization, stagnation, and increase. Women's life expectancy advantage declined for...

"Women’s life expectancy advantage declined for roughly four decades but resurged after 2012." - Rodrigo González-Velastín and Christine Schwartz in Population and Development Review. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

WPR interviews Chad Alan Goldberg about antisemitism Wisconsin Public Radio interviewed Chad Alan Goldberg about a proposal for the Wisconsin state legislature to adopt an official definition of antisemitism. “The definition could be a useful tool to de...

Chad Alan Goldberg was interviewed by WPR about lawmakers weighing the adoption of a controversial definition of antisemitism.
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