University of Wisconsin-Madison
Book chapter in Advances of Social Demography This chapter describes complex parenthood experiences for men and women in the contemporary United States.
Journal of Religion and Society Abstract: The story of the rise and transformation of the American conservative movement largely characterizes the Religious Right as established, comprised, and led by evangelical and fundamentalist Christians. Through highlighting the impact of Catholic actors, institutions, and issue agendas in the years 1950–1990, however, this critical literature review illustrates that …
Erin Gaede received a 2025 Dissertation Grant from the National Institute of Social Sciences (NISS). This award recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in the social sciences. She also won the RSS Rural Poverty RIG Graduate Student Paper Award for her research on rural housing insecurity. Her research areas include poverty, racial inequality, housing, social …
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 …
Bijoyetri Samaddar has received a Data Analytics for Policy Research Fellowship from the Impact and Policy Research Institute based in New Delhi. This fellowship supports a four-month immersive online certificate training course designed to equip policymakers, researchers, and data enthusiasts with cutting-edge analytical skills. She has also received an Energy Analysis & Policy Student Scholarship …
Work, Employment, and Society Abstract: Drawing on Bourdieu’s theories of field and capital, this article proposes the concept of security capital for a better understanding of precarity in the field of work. Three indicators are put forward to characterise the level of precarity – employment-based security capital, citizenship-based security capital and embodied security capital. Additionally, …
The 120th American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting took place August 8-12, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Jessica Calarco has been elected the 2026-2027 Vice President of ASA. Fabien Accominotti has been elected chair of the ASA Section on Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society for 2025-2026. Eunsil Oh has been elected onto the Council for the …
So Yun Park received an ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) for the 2025–2026 academic year for her dissertation, Navigating Family Leave Usage in the Workplace: Unpacking Institutional, Cultural, and Social Influences. This research examines how workplace dynamics shape the utilization of family leave policies. Drawing on court cases involving family leave-related disputes, a …
SSM – Population Health Abstract: Living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with worse health. However, the biological pathways underpinning this association remain unclear. Using 1388 adults from Researching Epigenetics, Weathering and Residential Disadvantage (REWARD), an ancillary study to the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), we examined the contribution of cumulative neighborhood …
Martin Eiermann, one of our newest faculty members, is celebrating the release of his book The Limiting Principle: How Privacy Became a Public Issue, published by Columbia University Press. The concept of privacy is central to public life in the United States. It is the fulcrum of countless conflicts over reproductive rights and consumer protection, …