University of Wisconsin-Madison
Current Sociology Abstract The study of symbols has often focused on individuals who have achieved substantial and enduring iconic status among a large audience, such as Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. However, the focus on successful cases overlooks the contentious process of becoming an icon. To address this gap, I reconstruct a case study …
Ethnic and Racial Studies ABSTRACT Confederate memorialization is not limited to the United States. After the Civil War, thousands of former Confederates emigrated to Brazil where slavery continued. Santa Bárbara d’Oeste and Americana, in São Paulo State, long celebrated this Confederate heritage. Local memory politics, however, have become unsettled. This article examines local Black movement …
The British Journal of Psychiatry Abstract Background: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with high risks of adverse academic outcomes. A major motivation for initiating pharmacological treatment of ADHD is to mitigate these risks; however, the evidence regarding its long-term effects is inconclusive. Aims: Our objective was to investigate the long-term causal effects of pharmacological …
Gender and Society Abstract How do women navigate contradictory expectations about motherhood and employment as they cross national and cultural boundaries? This study explores how college-educated Chinese migrants in Singapore interpret the meaning of work throughout migration and motherhood, contributing to feminist scholarship on transnational mobility and the gendered division of labor. Analysis of 36 …
Population and Development Review Abstract: Current migration theories occasionally ignore the potentially negative aspects of scholarly migration as a form of high-skilled migration, largely viewing it in a positive light. Yet scholarly migration is not always a tale of freedom and innovation, as the labels “researchers at risk” and “scientists in exile” demonstrate. We document …
Sciences Po’s Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’évaluation des politiques publiques (LIEPP) Ecological planning in France remains ill-defined. Conceptually, it often serves as a canvas upon which we project different meanings — at times evoking a nostalgia for an earlier period, in other moments a vague placeholder for progressive politics. As Mathilde Viennot has written, “La planification écologique …
Congratulations to Nicholas Mark, Max Besbris, and their cross-campus team who are the recipients of an 2026 Igniting Interdisciplinary Innovation (I3) award. The team is developing a novel framework to better measure the immediate economic impact of flood events on households. By merging high-resolution satellite and meteorological data with real-time consumer spending metrics, the project …
Department of Sociology doctoral student Meiyi Li has been selected for the Institute on Aging’s (IOA) prestigious 2026 New Investigator Award. Li will present her award-winning research poster at the upcoming IOA Annual Colloquium. Li’s poster, titled “Parenting Children with Serious Health Conditions and Late-life Cognition: Life Course Associations and Gender Differences,” addresses a critical gap in …
Myra Marx Ferree, the Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (Emerita), was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in recognition of her pioneering contributions to the study of gender, politics, and social movements. She received the …
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Abstract Economic development theory and practice in the United States implicitly assume that because economic decline is linked to worsened deprivation, the inverse must hold: that growth generates socioeconomic prosperity. While regional economic decline and stagnation correlate with decreasing real income among lower- and middle-income families, income gains …