University of Wisconsin-Madison
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 …
Social Science Research Abstract: Despite the rapid growth of private tutoring, previous studies have not systematically addressed its implications for socioeconomic status (SES) disparities in education, as they have only separately examined differential access to and the effects of private tutoring. This study directly estimates the causal contribution of private tutoring to SES disparities in …
“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 …
Maternal and Child Health Journal Abstract: Unplanned or unwanted pregnancies and births are linked to adverse maternal outcomes, but the extent to which such relationships hold for all racial/ethnic groups remains unknown. In this paper, I use large-scale data to estimate unadjusted and inverse propensity weighted associations between a five-level measure of pregnancy intention and …
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 …
Every year, UW–Madison awards several professorships & faculty fellowships to support their excellent research. Christine Schwartz was awarded a Kellet Mid-Career Award, which to provides research support to faculty seven to twenty years past their first promotion to a tenured position. Christine’s research interests fall at the intersection of family demography, stratification, and gender. A …
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net, a new book from Jessica Calarco, chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the …
Benny Witkovsky and Madison Garcia received ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIGs), which support theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance understanding of fundamental social processes. Benny Witkovsky’s dissertation is titled “Fig Leaves or Fortresses: Nonpartisan Politics in a Polarized Time.” For more than a century, all city politics in Wisconsin—and in 75% of …