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.
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“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 …
The Gender Gap in Life Expectancy in the United States and Deaths of Despair: Trends From 1979 to 2022 by Christine Schwartz and Rodrigo González-Velastín (2025)
Population and Development Review Abstract: The extent to which women outlive men in the United States has fluctuated over the 20th century, with periods of equalization, stagnation, and increase. Women’s life expectancy advantage declined for …
WPR interviews Chad Alan Goldberg about antisemitism
Wisconsin Public Radio interviewed Chad Alan Goldberg about a proposal for the Wisconsin state legislature to adopt an official definition of antisemitism. “The definition could be a useful tool to determine, if there is a …
Division of Labor, Multiplication of Gratitude? Gratitude and Resentment Within Households by Allison Daminger, Amanda Nerenberg, Rachel Drapper, Alexandra C. Feldberg, and Kathleen L. McGinn (2025)
Journal of Marriage and Family Abstract: Objective This paper investigates contemporary household economies of gratitude and resentment, assessing how discrepancies between partners’ expectations relate to their emotions and household labor allocation. Background Women shoulder greater …