Walker Kahn won the ASA Economic Sociology Section’s Burt Best Student Paper Award for his article, “Safe as Houses: Financialization, Foreclosure, and Precarious Homeownership in the United States,” published in American Sociological Review. Abstract: The …
Month: May 2024
Early-Life Exposures and Social Stratification by Florenia Torche and Jenna Nobles (2024)
Annual Review of Sociology Abstract: Adverse environmental exposures—war and violence, natural disasters, escalating heat, worsening air quality—experienced in pregnancy are consequential for multiple domains of well-being over the life course, including health, cognitive development, schooling, …
Taylor Laemmli receives ASA Theory Section and ASA Culture Section Best Student Paper Awards
Taylor Laemmli‘s paper, “Class Experience Mobility through Consumption, Work and Relationships,” has won both the ASA Theory Section’s Best Student Paper Award and the ASA Culture Section’s Richard A. Peterson Award for Best Student paper. Abstract: Sociological analyses …
Second-Generation Decline: Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Between African Americans and Afro Caribbeans by Mosi Adesina Ifatunji, Yanica F. Faustin, and Deshira D. Wallace (2024)
Sociological Focus Abstract: Studies show that Black immigrants have better cardiovascular health than African Americans, but few have explored the reasons for these disparities. While we know that the cardiovascular health of Black immigrants worsens …
Alex Mikulas receives Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Award
Alex Mikulas received a Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Award for his dissertation project, “Trends in Housing Market Racial Integration and the Foreclosure Crisis: A Space-Time Analysis.”
Department Teaching and Mentoring Awards 2024
Every year, the Sociology Department’s Evaluation and Improvement of Instruction Committee gives out teaching and mentoring awards to the most impactful instructors and mentors. This year’s winners are: Excellence as a Teaching Assistant – Leonard …
The Color of Asylum nominated for C. Wright Mills Award
Katherine Jensen‘s book, The Color of Asylum, is a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). In The Color of Asylum, Katherine Jensen offers an ethnographic look …
Sadie Dempsey receives Graduate Student Service Scholarship
Sadie Dempsey received a Graduate Student Service Scholarship from the UW-Madison Graduate School! This scholarship recognizes and honors the graduate students who volunteer to take on service roles in addition to their research, work, and …
Michael Burawoy’s Path: From North to South, and Back Again by Gay Seidman (2024)
Critical Sociology Abstract: As anyone who has met Michael Burawoy can tell you, he remains very, very British – from his unflagging loyalty to Manchester United, to his very British ‘flat cap’, to his consistent …
Three PAA Awards
The 2024 annual meeting for the Population Association of America (PAA) took place in Columbus, Ohio. Demographers from around the world met to present and discuss their latest research. Three of our sociologists received awards: …