Medical Care, April 2023 Abstract: Background- Pregnancy care coordination increases preventive care receipt for mothers and infants. Whether such services affect other family members’ health care is unknown. Objective- To estimate the spillover effect of …
Month: March 2023
Chiara Packard Awarded the 2023 SSSP Law & Society Division Lindesmith Graduate Student Paper Competition Award
Chiara Packard’s paper “Prosecution for Services: How Access to Services through the Criminal Legal System Shapes Prosecutors’ Decisions,” was selected as the award winner for the 2023 SSSP Law & Society Division Lindesmith Graduate Student …
Sociology Colloquium: From Jim Crow to Juan Crow: Blackness, Latindad, and Minority Linked Fate with Jennifer Jones, U Illinois-Chicago
Presenter: Jennifer Jones (U Illinois, Chicago) Title: From Jim Crow to Juan Crow: Blackness, Latindad, and Minority Linked Fate Date: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 Time: 2:30-4:00pm Location: 8417 Sewell Social Science Building
Graduate Student Abigail Letak Awarded Capstone PhD Teaching Award
2022-23 Teaching Assistant Award winners demonstrate educational excellence Twenty-one outstanding graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2022-23 UW–Madison Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their excellence in teaching. Abigail was awarded one of …
Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Spring Panel: Immigration in the New South: Latinxs, Asian Americans, and African Americans
Presenter: Perla Guerrero (U Maryland) and Jennifer Joines (U Illinois, Chicago) Title: Immigration in the New South: Latinxs, Asian Americans, and African Americans Date: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 Time: 4:00pm Location: 8417 Sewell Social Science …
Sociology Colloquium: Marital Dynamics and Health in Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Unions: A Dyadic Longitudinal Approach with Prof. Debra J. Umberson from UT Austin
Presenter: Prof. Debra J. Umberson from UT Austin Title: Marital Dynamics and Health in Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Unions: A Dyadic Longitudinal Approach Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 Time: 12:15 – 2:00 pm Location: 8417 …
Max Besbris awarded Eastern Sociological Society Early Career Public Sociology Award
Congratulations to Max Besbris for receiving the Eastern Sociological Society Early Career Public Sociology Award. This award recognizes sociologists who have done cutting-edge sociological research and engaged in meaningful public work using that research. From …
Peer effects on academic self-concept: a large randomized field experiment by Tamás Keller, Jinho Kim, & Felix Elwert (2023)
European Sociological Review, February 2023 Abstract: Social theories posit that peers affect students’ academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students’ ASC, …