Sociological Theory Abstract: Approaches to the study of markets in economic sociology have been converging with an approach to markets found in the field of evolutionary economics. In this view, markets are treated as sets …
Month: November 2025
Danielle Schmidt receives 2025 CIAS Graduate Student Summer Research Mini-Grant
Danielle Schmidt received a 2025 Graduate Student Summer Research Mini-Grant from the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS). She interviewed ranchers in northeastern Montana for her study on agricultural land transitioning to conservation reserves. Danielle …
How Does Life Course Exposure to Contextual Disadvantage Accelerate Biological Aging? The Role of Psychological Symptoms by Christina Kamis, Wei Xu, Amy Schultz, Joseph Clark, Michal Engelman, and Kristen Malecki (2025)
The Journals of Gerontology Series B Abstract: Objectives Recent research has found that life course exposure to contextual socioeconomic disadvantage may accelerate biological aging, providing key insight into an upstream driver of health disparities. However, …
Bijoyetri Samaddar receives Midwest Sociological Society scholarship
Bijoyetri Samaddar received a scholarship from the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) for her research into knowledge production in policy-oriented organizations. The next MSS Annual Meeting will be March 26-29, 2026 in St. Louis, MO.
“Nobody’s Children”: The Racial History of Parental Rights Law in Foster Care by Michaela Simmons (2025)
Gender & Society Abstract: While scholars show that child protection is tied to the regulation of motherhood, we know little about how mothers of color were treated in early child welfare history. To address this …
Max Besbris speaks on National Academies panel
Max Besbris spoke on a National Academies panel entitled “Extreme Weather Events and Insurance: Households, Homeowners, and Risk.” A recording of the event is available to view here. He discussed research published in his book …
Decriminalizing or reassembling schools? Implications of removing police from schools for racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice system contact by Catalina Valdez, Benjamin W Fisher, and Abigail J Beneke (2025)
Social Problems Abstract: Calls to remove school-based law enforcement (SBLE) have grown in tandem with widespread SBLE presence. Central to these calls are issues of equity, with the hope that removing SBLE will reduce racial/ethnic …
Youbin Kang named co-winner of Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award
Alum Youbin Kang (2024) was named one of two co-winners of the Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award from the Comparative Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. She’s currently a Moynihan Postdoctoral Fellow at the …
Dementia prevalence in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (2025)
Alzheimer’s & Dementia Abstract: Introduction While there is growing appreciation of the importance of sociobiological determinants of dementia, few lifespan cohorts offer well‐characterized dementia outcomes to explore these aims. We sought to identify dementia prevalence …
Featured article in ASA Journals Newsletter from Katherine Jensen and Benny Witkovsky
Katherine Jensen and Benny Witkovsky’s article “Human Rights as a Lay Category of Thought,” with co-author Monika Krause, was the featured Socius article in the ASA Journals Newsletter. You can listen to the accompanying podcast …