UW-Madison Sociology
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Official account for the Department of Sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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"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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November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"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 spoke on a National Academies panel entitled "Extreme Weather Events and Insurance: Households, Homeowners, and Risk." sociology.wisc.edu/2025/11/17/m...
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...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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...
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...
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
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November 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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...
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.”
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...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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.”
"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
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......
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November 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"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
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...
@asanews.bsky.social
@asanews.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
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November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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...
@asanews.bsky.social
@asanews.bsky.social
"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...
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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...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"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...
Chad Alan Goldberg was interviewed by WPR about lawmakers weighing the adoption of a controversial definition of antisemitism.
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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...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Chad Alan Goldberg was interviewed by WPR about lawmakers weighing the adoption of a controversial definition of antisemitism.
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"Expressions of gratitude and resentment revealed considerable divergence between men’s and women’s expectations." -Allison Daminger, Amanda Nerenberg, Rachel Drapper, Alexandra C. Feldberg, & Kathleen L. McGinn in @jmfncfr.bsky.social
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective This paper investigates contemporary household economies of gratitude and resentment, assessing how discrepancies between partners' expectations relate to their emotions and household labo...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"Expressions of gratitude and resentment revealed considerable divergence between men’s and women’s expectations." -Allison Daminger, Amanda Nerenberg, Rachel Drapper, Alexandra C. Feldberg, & Kathleen L. McGinn in @jmfncfr.bsky.social
Gullickson Fellowship recipient Morgan Henson serves on the L&S Teaching & Learning Advisory Council, the L&S TA Training & Support Team, and the new Graduate Student Advisory Council.
Morgan Henson receives Gullickson fellowship, serves on teaching support councils
Morgan Henson received the Gullickson Fellowship from the College of Letters & Science for the second year in a row. His research investigates how the far right in the US and Europe leverages social i...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Gullickson Fellowship recipient Morgan Henson serves on the L&S Teaching & Learning Advisory Council, the L&S TA Training & Support Team, and the new Graduate Student Advisory Council.
"Compared to other social scientists, social psychologists have been less involved in efforts to explain patterns of social class reproduction and social class mobility." @crosenstock.bsky.social and @jessicacalarco.com in Handbook of Social Psychology.
The Social Psychology of Social Class and Mobility
Compared to other social scientists, social psychologists have been less involved in efforts to explain patterns of social class reproduction and social class mobility, and when they have these consid...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"Compared to other social scientists, social psychologists have been less involved in efforts to explain patterns of social class reproduction and social class mobility." @crosenstock.bsky.social and @jessicacalarco.com in Handbook of Social Psychology.
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ASA’s TRAILS is a teaching resource free 4 ASA members! In “Ethnic Movements in the United States” (Emma-Claire LaSaine @uwsoc.bsky.social) you get guidance on goals & assessments to help students sociologically analyze historical & recent movements in the U.S. https://bit.ly/4nOBBfz
October 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
ASA’s TRAILS is a teaching resource free 4 ASA members! In “Ethnic Movements in the United States” (Emma-Claire LaSaine @uwsoc.bsky.social) you get guidance on goals & assessments to help students sociologically analyze historical & recent movements in the U.S. https://bit.ly/4nOBBfz
Congratulatoins to Jimin Gim, who received the Student Paper Award from the 2025 International Conference on the Sociology of Korea (I-CSK)!
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Jimin Gim receives Student Paper Award from International Conference on the Sociology of Korea
Jimin Gim received the Student Paper Award from the 2025 International Conference on the Sociology of Korea (I-CSK). She presented her paper “Optimizing Motherhood: How Mothers Understand and Manage C...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Congratulatoins to Jimin Gim, who received the Student Paper Award from the 2025 International Conference on the Sociology of Korea (I-CSK)!
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Congratulations to Pedro Moisés, who was awarded a fellowship from the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies at UW-Madison! sts.wisc.edu
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October 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Congratulations to Pedro Moisés, who was awarded a fellowship from the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies at UW-Madison! sts.wisc.edu
Allison Daminger #published "What's on Her Mind?: The Mental Workload of Family Life" with @princetonupress.bsky.social
The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of it.
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The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of it.
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What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life by Allison Daminger
Allison Daminger’s book, What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life, is now available through Princeton University Press. Mothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spendin...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Allison Daminger #published "What's on Her Mind?: The Mental Workload of Family Life" with @princetonupress.bsky.social
The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of it.
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The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of it.
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📢 UW-Madison's Social Science Research Services (SSRS) is coordinating with @uwsoc.bsky.social to hire a communications and events specialist! SSRS staff support the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Center for the Demography of Health and Aging.
Interested? Learn more and apply by Oct. 16 ➡️
Interested? Learn more and apply by Oct. 16 ➡️
Outreach Program Coordinator - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:Academic StaffEmployment…
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October 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
📢 UW-Madison's Social Science Research Services (SSRS) is coordinating with @uwsoc.bsky.social to hire a communications and events specialist! SSRS staff support the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Center for the Demography of Health and Aging.
Interested? Learn more and apply by Oct. 16 ➡️
Interested? Learn more and apply by Oct. 16 ➡️
Congratulations to Sarah "Frankie" Frank for receiving a Distinguished Honors Faculty Award!
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Frankie Frank Distinguished Honors Faculty Award
Congratulations to Sarah “Frankie” Frank for receiving a Distinguished Honors Faculty Award! Each spring, the L&S Honors Program solicits student nominations of faculty members who have had a special ...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Congratulations to Sarah "Frankie" Frank for receiving a Distinguished Honors Faculty Award!
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Emma-Claire LaSaine published a class syllabus for “Ethnic Movements in the United States” in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. trails.asanet.org/article/view...
Ethnic Movements in the United States
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September 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Emma-Claire LaSaine published a class syllabus for “Ethnic Movements in the United States” in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. trails.asanet.org/article/view...
"By focusing on mesolevel interactions between the family and school settings, this study expands research on the implications of family composition for students’ and parents’ experiences at school."
Emma Romell (@emmaromell.bsky.social) in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social
Emma Romell (@emmaromell.bsky.social) in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social
Family Composition, Race, and Teachers’ Perceptions of Parent-Teacher Alliance
Abstract. Both family composition and teachers’ perceptions of parents are important for student success. However, we know little about whether teachers’ p
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September 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"By focusing on mesolevel interactions between the family and school settings, this study expands research on the implications of family composition for students’ and parents’ experiences at school."
Emma Romell (@emmaromell.bsky.social) in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social
Emma Romell (@emmaromell.bsky.social) in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social
As a public university, @uwmadison.bsky.social is affected by the decisions of our state & federal governments. We need people to speak up about issues that affect our students & faculty and the critical work they do for the world. Find out how you can support UW Sociology at uwalumni.com/advocate/
September 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
As a public university, @uwmadison.bsky.social is affected by the decisions of our state & federal governments. We need people to speak up about issues that affect our students & faculty and the critical work they do for the world. Find out how you can support UW Sociology at uwalumni.com/advocate/
"...Our results reveal joint patterns of child maltreatment and foster care placement that cannot be detected with simple descriptive statistics..."
-Martin Eiermann, Garrett Baker, and Christopher J. Wildeman in @sfjournal.bsky.social.
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-Martin Eiermann, Garrett Baker, and Christopher J. Wildeman in @sfjournal.bsky.social.
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Discordant patterns and adulthood consequences of childhood maltreatment and foster care placement
Abstract. Child maltreatment and foster care placement are common, unequally distributed, and consequential for life-course outcomes. Yet, little is known
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September 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"...Our results reveal joint patterns of child maltreatment and foster care placement that cannot be detected with simple descriptive statistics..."
-Martin Eiermann, Garrett Baker, and Christopher J. Wildeman in @sfjournal.bsky.social.
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-Martin Eiermann, Garrett Baker, and Christopher J. Wildeman in @sfjournal.bsky.social.
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“People should not be concerned about the U.S. population into the future.”
PBS News Hour interviewed Nicholas Mark about the pronatalism movement encouraging Americans to have more children. @pbsnews.org @nickdemark.bsky.social
PBS News Hour interviewed Nicholas Mark about the pronatalism movement encouraging Americans to have more children. @pbsnews.org @nickdemark.bsky.social
A look inside the pronatalism movement encouraging Americans to have more children
The U.S. fertility rate reached an all-time low in 2024, according to the CDC. This trend has sparked fear among many on the right, from Elon Musk to Donald Trump, who believe Americans should have mo...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“People should not be concerned about the U.S. population into the future.”
PBS News Hour interviewed Nicholas Mark about the pronatalism movement encouraging Americans to have more children. @pbsnews.org @nickdemark.bsky.social
PBS News Hour interviewed Nicholas Mark about the pronatalism movement encouraging Americans to have more children. @pbsnews.org @nickdemark.bsky.social
Research by Ang Yu and Felix Elwert about social inequalities caught the attention of the Institute for Diversity Science, who published a piece focusing on their work. ids.wisc.edu/2025/07/08/y...
Yu and Elwert Develop Approach to Better Understand Causes Behind Group Disparities
IDS-supported research by sociologists Ang Yu and Felix Elwert has identified a statistical approach that allows social scientists to measure causes of group disparities.
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September 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Research by Ang Yu and Felix Elwert about social inequalities caught the attention of the Institute for Diversity Science, who published a piece focusing on their work. ids.wisc.edu/2025/07/08/y...
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A great day to visit WCER, ITP, and @uwsoc.bsky.social!
September 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A great day to visit WCER, ITP, and @uwsoc.bsky.social!
"This study investigates whether and how spousal similarity in outlook on life is linked to later-life well-being."
Yue Qin, Sara Moorman, and Michal Engelman (@michalengelman.bsky.social) in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.
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Yue Qin, Sara Moorman, and Michal Engelman (@michalengelman.bsky.social) in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.
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Perceived spousal similarity in outlook on life: implications for later-life well-being
AbstractObjectives. People tend to choose marital partners who are similar to themselves, and spouses become increasingly similar in some respects due to s
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September 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"This study investigates whether and how spousal similarity in outlook on life is linked to later-life well-being."
Yue Qin, Sara Moorman, and Michal Engelman (@michalengelman.bsky.social) in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.
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Yue Qin, Sara Moorman, and Michal Engelman (@michalengelman.bsky.social) in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.
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