University of Wisconsin-Madison
Term: Fall 2024 (Soc 320, Section 036), Prof Chloe Hart Status: CLOSED Contact: Please contact Nikki Nair nnair6@wisc.edu to apply for this position. See details below. It is available for 2 credits. Description: This is a voluntary research study about flirtation in media. Flirtation – expressing romantic or sexual interest in someone – isn’t a …
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, …
Work and Occupations Abstract: Why might women who experience gender-based bias and harassment at work shy away from efforts to address gender inequality in their workplaces? Drawing on data from 52 interviews with women working in the Silicon Valley tech industry, I show that efforts to address women’s marginalization in the men-dominated tech industry are …
Oxford University Press Sadie Dempsey co-authored a chapter with Jianing Li (Rutgers University) titled, “The Local Roots of January 6th: A Mixed-Methods, Multilevel Approach to Political Communication” that was recently published in Media and January 6th.
“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 …
Socius Abstract: Although rates of residential racial segregation and home prices are undoubtedly related, the temporal nature of the relationship has rarely been studied. Using fixed effects models in a cross-lagged framework, we examine how prior changes in segregation and home prices at the metro level predict changes in the other. Our findings suggest that …
Qualitative Sociology Abstract: Drawing on the human ecology framework, which describes social structure as dynamic and social action as environmentally contingent, this article examines behavior and attitudes around accepting help after disaster. Through two years of longitudinal in-depth interviews with 59 households in one community whose homes flooded during Hurricane Harvey, this study describes perceived …
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 …
American Journal of Epidemiology Abstract: Deleterious neighborhood conditions are associated with poor health, yet the health impact of cumulative lifetime exposure to neighborhood disadvantage is understudied. Using up to five decades of residential histories for 4,177 adult participants in the Survey of Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) and spatio-temporally linked neighborhood conditions, we develop four operational …
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.