University of Wisconsin-Madison
Current Sociology Abstract The study of symbols has often focused on individuals who have achieved substantial and enduring iconic status among a large audience, such as Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. However, the focus on successful cases overlooks the contentious process of becoming an icon. To address this gap, I reconstruct a case study …
Ethnic and Racial Studies ABSTRACT Confederate memorialization is not limited to the United States. After the Civil War, thousands of former Confederates emigrated to Brazil where slavery continued. Santa Bárbara d’Oeste and Americana, in São Paulo State, long celebrated this Confederate heritage. Local memory politics, however, have become unsettled. This article examines local Black movement …
The British Journal of Psychiatry Abstract Background: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with high risks of adverse academic outcomes. A major motivation for initiating pharmacological treatment of ADHD is to mitigate these risks; however, the evidence regarding its long-term effects is inconclusive. Aims: Our objective was to investigate the long-term causal effects of pharmacological …
Gender and Society Abstract How do women navigate contradictory expectations about motherhood and employment as they cross national and cultural boundaries? This study explores how college-educated Chinese migrants in Singapore interpret the meaning of work throughout migration and motherhood, contributing to feminist scholarship on transnational mobility and the gendered division of labor. Analysis of 36 …
Population and Development Review Abstract: Current migration theories occasionally ignore the potentially negative aspects of scholarly migration as a form of high-skilled migration, largely viewing it in a positive light. Yet scholarly migration is not always a tale of freedom and innovation, as the labels “researchers at risk” and “scientists in exile” demonstrate. We document …
Sciences Po’s Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’évaluation des politiques publiques (LIEPP) Ecological planning in France remains ill-defined. Conceptually, it often serves as a canvas upon which we project different meanings — at times evoking a nostalgia for an earlier period, in other moments a vague placeholder for progressive politics. As Mathilde Viennot has written, “La planification écologique …
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Abstract Economic development theory and practice in the United States implicitly assume that because economic decline is linked to worsened deprivation, the inverse must hold: that growth generates socioeconomic prosperity. While regional economic decline and stagnation correlate with decreasing real income among lower- and middle-income families, income gains …
Social Science & Medicine ABSTRACT Research suggests that gene-environment correlation (rGE) is a central mechanism in the causation of depression. In particular, individuals with a higher genetic risk of depression also have a disproportionately high risk of experiencing adversities that may to some extent be attributed to one’s own behaviors. However, the specific behaviors implicated …
Rural Sociology ABSTRACT To explain the stigma around homelessness, scholars often focus on its physically visible forms in urban centers. However, in rural contexts, people experiencing homelessness are often unseen: they are doubling up with friends and family, living in vehicles or abandoned buildings, and camping in state parks. As such, rural homelessness is often …
Demography Abstract