University of Wisconsin-Madison
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 political science. Myra received this award for her exceptional intellectual generativity and long-term vision. Myra said, “I am amazed and grateful …
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 4,177 adult participants in the Survey of Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) and spatio-temporally linked neighborhood conditions, we develop four operational …
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 (2024-25) at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, pictured on the left.
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 of Safe Haven in Brazil. In The Color of Asylum, Katherine Jensen offers an ethnographic look at the process of asylum seeking …
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 Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries,” published in the American Journal of Sociology in 2022. Abstract: Sociological research on …
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: Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology award, 2024 (ASA Section on Social Psychology) Melvin Pollner Prize, 2024 (ASA Section on …
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 and the effects of private tutoring. This study directly estimates the causal contribution of private tutoring to SES disparities in …
“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. to getting legal status, the lives of the entire family improve.” Kristina Fullerton Rico co-wrote “How Biden’s executive order to protect …
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, I use large-scale data to estimate unadjusted and inverse propensity weighted associations between a five-level measure of pregnancy intention and …
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 scientist Erik Olin Wright passed away in 2019 at the height of his intellectual powers, he left behind an unfinished …