University of Wisconsin-Madison
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 financialization of the U.S. economy has had important implications for household well-being, but the mechanisms connecting financialization and precarity have …
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, and earnings. Though these environmental exposures become embodied via biological processes, they are fundamentally sociological phenomena: Their emergence, allocation, and …
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 of class mobility focus on enduring class movement. How might we reconceptualize class mobility to capture more shifting experiences of …
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 over time in the United States, much less is known about the relative cardiovascular health of second-generation Black immigrants. We …
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.”
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 Kin-Chong Chao Excellence as a Lecturer – Michael Topping Excellence in Teaching as a Faculty Member – Chloe Hart
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 at the process of asylum seeking in Brazil, uncovering the different ways asylum seekers are treated and the racial logic …
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 family obligations. Sociology grad student Ruby Bafu received this award in 2021. As a political sociologist, she studies democracy, social …
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 repetition of ‘bloody brilliant’ as the highest compliment he can offer to his dozens of grateful advisees. But despite his …
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: Julia Thomas received a poster award for her project, “Legacy of the ‘Forgotten Dead’: Lynching of Hispanics and Risk of …