University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lindsay Cannon was selected to receive a Society of Family Planning Emerging Scholar grant to help fund research for her dissertation, “Abortion restrictions and pregnancy decision-making among people with the capacity for pregnancy with chronic health conditions.” Lindsay is a mixed methods scholar and social demographer interested in understanding how adverse early life experiences, such …
Erin Gaede was awarded the Master’s Thesis Award by the Rural Sociological Society for her Master’s thesis titled “Housing Insecurity in America’s Dairyland.” Abstract: To explain the stigma around homelessness and housing insecurity, scholars tend to rely on urban samples and focus on the hypervisibility, what I call the physical hypervisibility, of people sleeping in public spaces, …
“Crime rates, offending rates and incarceration rates tend to be lower amongst foreign-born individuals.” That’s what research co-authored by Michael Light concludes. Michael’s research on crime and immigration has been featured in the news lately as November’s presidential election nears. Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) interviewed Michael for University of the Air, where they discussed racial …
Myra Marx Ferree was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Consortium for Political Research. This award is presented on a biennial basis to a scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to European political science. Myra received this award for her exceptional intellectual generativity and long-term vision. Myra said, “I am amazed and grateful …
James Rosenberg was awarded a Research Fellowship through the UW–Madison’s Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence for Populism and the Global Economy for 2024-2025. He will be a visiting researcher this upcoming academic year (2024-25) at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, pictured on the left.
Katherine Jensen received an Honorable Mention for the Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award from the Law and Society Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for The Color Of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil. In The Color of Asylum, Katherine Jensen offers an ethnographic look at the process of asylum seeking …
Theodore Gerber, Jia Wang (PhD 2022), and Jane Zavisca won the RC-28 award for Significant Scholarship. Specifically, the award is for their article “Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries,” published in the American Journal of Sociology in 2022. Abstract: Sociological research on …
Emeritus Professor Doug Maynard and alum Jason Turowetz (PhD 2016) have published Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis with University of Chicago Press in 2022. This book has won three recent awards: Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology award, 2024 (ASA Section on Social Psychology) Melvin Pollner Prize, 2024 (ASA Section on …
“When one family member cannot safely travel, work or access health care, all family members suffer. The opposite is also true. When a family member is able to shift from living without legal status in the U.S. to getting legal status, the lives of the entire family improve.” Kristina Fullerton Rico co-wrote “How Biden’s executive order to protect …
Engaging Erik Wright: Between Class Analysis and Real Utopias, with essays engaging Erik’s work by a wonderful group of Erik’s former students, colleagues, and friends, is now available from Verso Press. When the renowned social scientist Erik Olin Wright passed away in 2019 at the height of his intellectual powers, he left behind an unfinished …