University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: June 2024

Linking sequences of exposure to residential (dis)advantage, individual socioeconomic status, and health by Christina Kamis, Wei Xu, Amy Schultz, Kristen Malecki, and Michal Engelman (2024)

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Health & Place Abstract: Life course theories suggest that the relationship between residential (dis)advantage and health is best understood by examining the ordering and duration of cumulative exposures across the life course. This study employs sequence and cluster analysis on two decades of residential histories linked to the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin to …

Civic Lessons That Last? Religiosity and Volunteering on the Way to Adulthood by Chaeyoon Lim and Dingeman Wiertz (2024)

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American Sociological Review Abstract: Recent religious declines in the United States are for a large part driven by the growing number of Americans who were raised religiously but left religion in the transition to adulthood. Nonetheless, their views and behaviors may still be influenced by their religious upbringing. We explore such legacy effects by examining …

Kristina Fullerton Rico’s research about grieving from afar

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Kristina Fullerton Rico’s research on how grieving from afar impacts undocumented immigrants was featured in a new article in Yes! magazine about long-distance grief. Kristina is a PhD candidate who will defend her dissertation in August. Her dissertation is titled, “Aging Without a Safety Net: Unauthorized Immigrants in Later Life.”

Max Besbris receives Honorable Mention for ASA Community and Urban Section’s Jane Addams Best Article Award

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Max Besbris and Elizabeth Korver-Glenn received an Honorable Mention for the Jane Addams Best Article Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of ASA for their article, “Value Fluidity and Value Anchoring: Race, Intermediaries, and Valuation in Two Housing Markets,” published in Socioeconomic Review.

Eunsil Oh receives ASA Family Section’s Article of the Year Award

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Eunsil Oh and Eunmi Mun won the ASA Family Section Article of the Year Award for “Compensatory Work Devotion: How a Culture of Overwork Shapes Women’s Parental Leave in South Korea.” Gender & Society 36(4): 552-577.

The asymmetric effects of improving and declining marital satisfaction on cognitive function by Jinho Kim and Sungsik Hwang (2024)

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Journal of Marriage and Family Abstract: Objective This study examines the association between marital satisfaction and cognitive function, while distinguishing between the effects of improving and declining marital satisfaction. Moreover, potential differences in these asymmetric effects of marital satisfaction between middle-aged and older adults are explored. Background Marital satisfaction is known to promote cognitive function. However, …

Myra Marx Ferree receives Centennial Medal from Harvard

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Congratulations to Professor Emerita Myra Marx Ferree on being awarded the Centennial Medal, Harvard’s Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Science’s highest honor! “Myra Marx Ferree has become one of the most influential scholars of gender in the United States, and around the world,” says Frank Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences …

Toward an Ethnoracial Ontology for the Study of Race and Ethnicity: The Case of African Americans and Black Immigrants in the United States by Mosi Adesina Ifatunji (2024)

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Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Abstract: One of the central issues in the study of race and ethnicity is ontology. That is, after decades of scientific inquiry, we continue to debate definitions for race and ethnicity. Broadly speaking, the questions that frame this debate are: what is race, what is ethnicity, are they the same, …

Katherine Jensen wins Best Article Award

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Katherine Jensen won the Best Article Award from the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association for her article “From the Asylum Officials’ Point of View: Frames of Perception and Evaluation in Refugee Status Determination” in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.