Loka Ashwood received her PhD in Sociology in 2015. Less than a decade later, the McArthur Foundation has named her a Fellow in the Class of 2024. Her work develops action-centered methodologies that help frontline …
Month: October 2024
Manufacturing January 6: How Republican County Parties Mobilized Anger to Promote #StopTheSteal by Sadie Dempsey, Jianing Li, Benny Witkovsky, Yiming Wang, Lew Friedland, Mike Wagner, and Dhavan Shah (2024)
Politics and Society Abstract: The #StopTheStealMovement, which culminated in the January 6 attack, was part of a coordinated, months-long campaign to convince the public that the 2020 election was stolen through fraud and that Donald …
Avery Warner awarded 2024 ASC Gene Carte Student Paper Award (Second Place)
Avery Warner won second place in the Gene Carte Student Paper Award from the American Society of Criminology for her paper, “Noncitizen Punishment: Regional and National Origin as Stratification Mechanisms.” The student paper award was …
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2025: Transcription Assistant for Interviews About Flirtation
Term: Spring 2025 (Soc 320, Section 136) Status: CLOSED Contact: Please contact Chloe Hart chloe.hart@wisc.edu to apply for this position. See details below. It is available for 2 credits. Description: How have large societal shifts …
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2025: Cultural Scripts About Flirtation in American Media
Term: Spring 2025 (Soc 320, Section 036), Prof Chloe Hart Status: OPEN Contact: Please contact Mariah Lindsay malindsay@wisc.edu to apply for this position. See details below. It is available for 2 credits. Description: This is …
Happiness Scholarship and Redistributive Preferences by Tamkinat Rauf and Jeremy Freese (2024)
Social Psychology Quarterly Abstract: Despite a steep rise in income inequality over the past five decades, Americans’ preferences for redistribution have remained stagnant. Previous research suggests that redistributive preferences are rooted in stable institutional and …
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Criminal Charges and Convictions in Mid and Late Adolescence by a Hoppe Blaabæk, Daniel Juhász Vigild, Felix Elwert, Peter Fallesen, and Lars H. Andersen (2024)
JAMA Pediatrics Abstract: Importance Childhood exposure to mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is common. Individuals with a childhood history of mTBI experience more frequent criminal justice involvement in mid to late adolescence and adulthood. No study …
Eight Decades of Educational Assortative Mating: A Research Note by Noah Hirschl, Christine R. Schwartz, and Elia Boschetti (2024)
Demography Abstract: Recent social and economic trends in the United States, including increasing economic inequality, women’s growing educational advantage, and the rise of online dating, have ambiguous implications for patterns of educational homogamy. In this …
Uncertainty and Fertility in Ukraine on the Eve of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion: The Impact of Armed Conflict and Economic Crisis by Brienna Perelli-Harris, Theodore Gerber, and Yuliya Hilevych (2024)
European Journal of Population Abstract: While uncertainty has been a key explanation for very low fertility throughout Europe, few studies have analysed how macro-level uncertainty trickles down to shape how people think about having children. …
Jessica Calarco presents research at U.S. Capitol to House Democratic Caucus and the Democratic Women’s Caucus
Jessica Calarco was invited to the Capitol to present research from her new book, Holding It Together, at a dinner hosted by the House Democratic Caucus and the Democratic Women’s Caucus. The event also featured …