Myra Marx Ferree was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Consortium for Political Research. This award is presented on a biennial basis to a scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to European …
Month: July 2024
The health implications of cumulative exposure to contextual (dis) advantage: Methodological and substantive advances from a unique data linkage by Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Megan Agnew, Amy Schultz, Sarah Salas, Kristen Malecki, and Michal Engelman (2024)
American Journal of Epidemiology Abstract: Deleterious neighborhood conditions are associated with poor health, yet the health impact of cumulative lifetime exposure to neighborhood disadvantage is understudied. Using up to five decades of residential histories for …
Research Fellowship takes James Rosenberg to Germany
James Rosenberg was awarded a Research Fellowship through the UW-Madison’s Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence for Populism and the Global Economy for 2024-2025. He will be a visiting researcher this upcoming academic year …
Katherine Jensen receives Honorable Mention for Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award
Katherine Jensen received an Honorable Mention for the Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award from the Law and Society Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for The Color Of Asylum: The Racial Politics …
RC-28 Significant Scholarship Award
Theodore Gerber, Jia Wang (PhD 2022), and Jane Zavisca won the RC-28 award for Significant Scholarship. Specifically, the award is for their article “Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid …
Autistic Intelligence wins book awards
Emeritus Professor Doug Maynard and alum Jason Turowetz (PhD 2016) have published Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis with University of Chicago Press in 2022. This book has won three recent awards: …
Inequality in the shadow: The role of private tutoring in SES achievement gaps by Qi Zheng and Ang Yu (2024)
Social Science Research Abstract: Despite the rapid growth of private tutoring, previous studies have not systematically addressed its implications for socioeconomic status (SES) disparities in education, as they have only separately examined differential access to …
How Biden’s executive order to protect immigrant spouses of citizens from deportation will benefit their families and communities
“When one family member cannot safely travel, work or access health care, all family members suffer. The opposite is also true. When a family member is able to shift from living without legal status in the U.S. …
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Relationships Between Pregnancy Intentions and Maternal Outcomes by Nicholas Mark (2024)
Maternal and Child Health Journal Abstract: Unplanned or unwanted pregnancies and births are linked to adverse maternal outcomes, but the extent to which such relationships hold for all racial/ethnic groups remains unknown. In this paper, …
Engaging Erik Wright: Between Class Analysis and Real Utopias
Engaging Erik Wright: Between Class Analysis and Real Utopias, with essays engaging Erik’s work by a wonderful group of Erik’s former students, colleagues, and friends, is now available from Verso Press. When the renowned social …