University of Wisconsin-Madison
Erin Gaede was awarded the Master’s Thesis Award by the Rural Sociological Society for her Master’s thesis titled “Housing Insecurity in America’s Dairyland.” Abstract: To explain the stigma around homelessness and housing insecurity, scholars tend to rely on urban samples and focus on the hypervisibility, what I call the physical hypervisibility, of people sleeping in public spaces, …
Work and Occupations Abstract: Why might women who experience gender-based bias and harassment at work shy away from efforts to address gender inequality in their workplaces? Drawing on data from 52 interviews with women working in the Silicon Valley tech industry, I show that efforts to address women’s marginalization in the men-dominated tech industry are …
Oxford University Press Sadie Dempsey co-authored a chapter with Jianing Li (Rutgers University) titled, “The Local Roots of January 6th: A Mixed-Methods, Multilevel Approach to Political Communication” that was recently published in Media and January 6th.
“Crime rates, offending rates and incarceration rates tend to be lower amongst foreign-born individuals.” That’s what research co-authored by Michael Light concludes. Michael’s research on crime and immigration has been featured in the news lately as November’s presidential election nears. Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) interviewed Michael for University of the Air, where they discussed racial …
Socius Abstract: Although rates of residential racial segregation and home prices are undoubtedly related, the temporal nature of the relationship has rarely been studied. Using fixed effects models in a cross-lagged framework, we examine how prior changes in segregation and home prices at the metro level predict changes in the other. Our findings suggest that …
Qualitative Sociology Abstract: Drawing on the human ecology framework, which describes social structure as dynamic and social action as environmentally contingent, this article examines behavior and attitudes around accepting help after disaster. Through two years of longitudinal in-depth interviews with 59 households in one community whose homes flooded during Hurricane Harvey, this study describes perceived …