University of Wisconsin-Madison
Every year, UW–Madison awards several professorships & faculty fellowships to support their excellent research. Christine Schwartz was awarded a Kellet Mid-Career Award, which to provides research support to faculty seven to twenty years past their first promotion to a tenured position. Christine’s research interests fall at the intersection of family demography, stratification, and gender. A …
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net, a new book from Jessica Calarco, chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the …
Benny Witkovsky and Madison Garcia received ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIGs), which support theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance understanding of fundamental social processes. Benny Witkovsky’s dissertation is titled “Fig Leaves or Fortresses: Nonpartisan Politics in a Polarized Time.” For more than a century, all city politics in Wisconsin—and in 75% of …
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 …
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 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 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 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.
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, …
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 …