University of Wisconsin-Madison
Every year, UW–Madison awards several professorships & faculty fellowships to support their excellent research. Christine Schwartz was awarded a Kellet Mid-Career Award, which to provides research support to faculty seven to twenty years past their first promotion to a tenured position. Christine’s research interests fall at the intersection of family demography, stratification, and gender. A …
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net, a new book from Jessica Calarco, chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the …
Benny Witkovsky and Madison Garcia received ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIGs), which support theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance understanding of fundamental social processes. Benny Witkovsky’s dissertation is titled “Fig Leaves or Fortresses: Nonpartisan Politics in a Polarized Time.” For more than a century, all city politics in Wisconsin—and in 75% of …
Kristina Fullerton Rico’s research on how grieving from afar impacts undocumented immigrants was featured in a new article in Yes! magazine about long-distance grief. Kristina is a PhD candidate who will defend her dissertation in August. Her dissertation is titled, “Aging Without a Safety Net: Unauthorized Immigrants in Later Life.”
Max Besbris and Elizabeth Korver-Glenn received an Honorable Mention for the Jane Addams Best Article Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of ASA for their article, “Value Fluidity and Value Anchoring: Race, Intermediaries, and Valuation in Two Housing Markets,” published in Socioeconomic Review.
Eunsil Oh and Eunmi Mun won the ASA Family Section Article of the Year Award for “Compensatory Work Devotion: How a Culture of Overwork Shapes Women’s Parental Leave in South Korea.” Gender & Society 36(4): 552-577.
Congratulations to Professor Emerita Myra Marx Ferree on being awarded the Centennial Medal, Harvard’s Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Science’s highest honor! “Myra Marx Ferree has become one of the most influential scholars of gender in the United States, and around the world,” says Frank Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences …
Katherine Jensen won the Best Article Award from the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association for her article “From the Asylum Officials’ Point of View: Frames of Perception and Evaluation in Refugee Status Determination” in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Walker Kahn won the ASA Economic Sociology Section’s Burt Best Student Paper Award for his article, “Safe as Houses: Financialization, Foreclosure, and Precarious Homeownership in the United States,” published in American Sociological Review. Abstract: The financialization of the U.S. economy has had important implications for household well-being, but the mechanisms connecting financialization and precarity have …
Taylor Laemmli‘s paper, “Class Experience Mobility through Consumption, Work and Relationships,” has won both the ASA Theory Section’s Best Student Paper Award and the ASA Culture Section’s Richard A. Peterson Award for Best Student paper. Abstract: Sociological analyses of class mobility focus on enduring class movement. How might we reconceptualize class mobility to capture more shifting experiences of …