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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 …

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 …

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 …

Morgan Henson received the Gullickson Fellowship from the College of Letters & Science for the second year in a row. His research investigates how the far right in the US and Europe leverages social identities …

Jimin Gim received the Student Paper Award from the 2025 International Conference on the Sociology of Korea (I-CSK). She presented her paper “Optimizing Motherhood: How Mothers Understand and Manage Childcare Outsourcing in Contemporary South Korea” …

Congratulations to Sarah “Frankie” Frank for receiving a Distinguished Honors Faculty Award! Each spring, the L&S Honors Program solicits student nominations of faculty members who have had a special impact as instructors of Honors-designated courses, …

Allison Daminger’s book, What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life, is now available through Princeton University Press. Mothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on …

PBS News Hour interviewed Nicholas Mark about the pronatalism movement encouraging Americans to have more children. Even though the U.S. fertility rate is at an all time low, Nicholas Mark says that “People should not …

Research by Ang Yu and Felix Elwert about social inequalities caught the attention of the Institute for Diversity Science, who published a piece focusing on their work. It touches on the roots of inequalities, a …

Lisa Youngers, Vice Chair of our Board of Visitors, has been selected as one of the 50 Women to Watch for on Boards. Lisa earned her B.A. in Sociology and Communication Arts at UW-Madison, and …