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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 …
Mario Sims became a member of the Sociology Board of Visitors in 2025. Mario underscores that his training in sociology has been foundational to his research examining the influence of social determinants on cardiovascular disease inequities. You can read more about him in this UW Letters&Sciences feature.
Jessica Calarco is a professor of Sociology, the vice president-elect of the American Sociological Association, a non-resident fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and an expert on qualitative methods and on the role that privilege and power play in shaping inequalities in education and family life. Calarco has published four books, including “Holding it Together: How Women …
June 1, 2026 Congratulations to CDHA Director Michal Engelman who was chosen to lead the RISE-THRIVE Collaboration Headquarters (HQ), bringing together experts working at the forefront of research on the healthspan and immunology. The initiative supports cutting edge research on how the body defends against disease and how to extend the number of years people live healthy lives.
Jimin Gim was selected as a 2026 Emerging Scholar by Women & Wellbeing in Wisconsin & the World (4W) at UW–Madison. The 4W mission is to leverage the strengths of UW–Madison to be a convener and leading voice in education, applied research, and impactful engagement to promote global wellbeing and full participation of women in society. The Emerging Scholar …
Jessica Calarco’s research focuses on education, families, and health decision-making. Broadly speaking, she is interested in the structures of power and privilege that maintain socioeconomic, racial, and gender inequalities in these settings, as well as the role that qualitative methods can play in uncovering these mechanisms. Fox 5 interviewed her about how today’s parents are building …
Taimur Ahmad received a spot in the inaugural MOTH (more than human life) fellowship at NYU. It’s an interdisciplinary cohort focused on scholarship and advocacy around nature and the more-than-human world. Taimur’s research interests include environmental sociology, culture, qualitative methods, and social movements and collective behavior.
Allison Daminger was named a Frank F. Furstenberg Early Career Scholar by the Council on Contemporary Families. Through participation in the CCF Early Career Scholars Program, early career scholars attend a virtual summer-long program consisting of four professional development seminars and three one-on-one meetings with their mentors, including peer networking activities and training in public scholarship. In …