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Research from Wendy Li’s article, “Regulatory capture’s third face of power,” was featured in a recent New York Times op-ed: “How the Biden Administration Took the Pen Away from Meta, Google, and Amazon.” The op-ed author writes, “Last month, President Biden’s trade representative, Katherine Tai, notified the World Trade Organization that the American government no longer …
Chad Goldberg gave an interview with local news station Channel 3000 WISC-TV about rising antisemitism. The interview aired on November 20, 2023, two days after a neo-Nazi march on the Wisconsin State Capitol.
The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) helps researchers understand aging in Wisconsin. Local news source Madison.com recently published an article about the WLS. Read the full article here. The WLS is a long-term study of a random sample of 10,317 people who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957, providing an opportunity to study the life …
Katherine Jensen was interviewed by Mother Jones following the publication of her book The Color of Asylym: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil. From Mother Jones: “Drawing from 15 months of fieldwork and interviews, Jensen documents how government officials evaluate asylum claims and the ways in which “migrants have the human right to …
The American Society of Criminology (ASC) awarded Chiara Packard the third-place award in the 2023 Gene Carte Student Paper Competition for her paper “Prosecution for Services: How Access to Services through the Criminal Legal System Shapes Prosecutors’ Decisions.” The student paper award was established in 1971 and is given to recognize outstanding scholarly work of …
Congratulations to Morgan Henson, who was named a 2023-2024 Morgridge Fellow with the Center for Public Service and Community-Engaged Scholarship! The fellows were selected through a juried process to participate in the year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support Community-Engaged Scholarship. Congratulations, Morgan!
A new publication in the journal Demography “A Generational Shift: Race and the Declining Lifetime Risk of Imprisonment” by Jason P. Robey, Michael Massoglia, & Michael T. Light was featured in the Washington Post last week “Opinion: New data show a dire forecast about incarceration rates didn’t come true” by Charles Lane. Lane writes “The …
Taylor Laemmli was awarded an Honorable Mention from the ASA Sociology of Consumers and Consumption section for their graduate student paper award for her paper “Class Experience Mobility through Consumption, Work, and Relationships.” Congratulations, Taylor!
Fabien Accominotti was awarded the Morton Deutsch Best Article Award for 2022 by the International Society for Justice Research for his paper “Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality” published in Social Justice Research in April 2022. Accominotti co-authored the paper with Kate Summers, Tania Burchardt, Katharina Hecht, Elizabeth …
Sadie Dempsey has been awarded a 2023 Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant! This RSF initiative supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research projects that address questions relevant to RSF’s priority areas. Dempsey will investigate why many politically engaged citizens hold low levels of trust in the government. Read more about Sadie’s research supported by this grant …