Early-Life Exposures and Social Stratification by Florenia Torche and Jenna Nobles (2024)

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Annual Review of Sociology Abstract: Adverse environmental exposures—war and violence, natural disasters, escalating heat, worsening air quality—experienced in pregnancy are consequential for multiple domains of well-being over the life course, including health, cognitive development, schooling, and earnings. Though these environmental exposures become embodied via biological processes, they are fundamentally sociological phenomena: Their emergence, allocation, and …

Taylor Laemmli receives ASA Theory Section and ASA Culture Section Best Student Paper Awards

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Taylor Laemmli‘s paper, “Class Experience Mobility through Consumption, Work and Relationships,” has won both the ASA Theory Section’s Best Student Paper Award and the ASA Culture Section’s Richard A. Peterson Award for Best Student paper. Abstract: Sociological analyses of class mobility focus on enduring class movement. How might we reconceptualize class mobility to capture more shifting experiences of …

Second-Generation Decline: Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Between African Americans and Afro Caribbeans by Mosi Adesina Ifatunji, Yanica F. Faustin, and Deshira D. Wallace (2024)

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Sociological Focus Abstract: Studies show that Black immigrants have better cardiovascular health than African Americans, but few have explored the reasons for these disparities. While we know that the cardiovascular health of Black immigrants worsens over time in the United States, much less is known about the relative cardiovascular health of second-generation Black immigrants. We …

Alex Mikulas receives Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Award

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Alex Mikulas received a Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Award for his dissertation project, “Trends in Housing Market Racial Integration and the Foreclosure Crisis: A Space-Time Analysis.”

Department Teaching and Mentoring Awards 2024

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Every year, the Sociology Department’s Evaluation and Improvement of Instruction Committee gives out teaching and mentoring awards to the most impactful instructors and mentors. This year’s winners are: Excellence as a Teaching Assistant – Leonard Kin-Chong Chao Excellence as a Lecturer – Michael Topping Excellence in Teaching as a Faculty Member – Chloe Hart

The Color of Asylum nominated for C. Wright Mills Award

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Katherine Jensen‘s book, The Color of Asylum, is a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). In The Color of Asylum, Katherine Jensen offers an ethnographic look at the process of asylum seeking in Brazil, uncovering the different ways asylum seekers are treated and the racial logic …

Sadie Dempsey receives Graduate Student Service Scholarship

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Sadie Dempsey received a Graduate Student Service Scholarship from the UW–Madison Graduate School! This scholarship recognizes and honors the graduate students who volunteer to take on service roles in addition to their research, work, and family obligations. Sociology grad student Ruby Bafu received this award in 2021. As a political sociologist, she studies democracy, social …

Michael Burawoy’s Path: From North to South, and Back Again by Gay Seidman (2024)

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Critical Sociology Abstract: As anyone who has met Michael Burawoy can tell you, he remains very, very British – from his unflagging loyalty to Manchester United, to his very British ‘flat cap’, to his consistent repetition of ‘bloody brilliant’ as the highest compliment he can offer to his dozens of grateful advisees. But despite his …

Three PAA Awards

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The 2024 annual meeting for the Population Association of America (PAA) took place in Columbus, Ohio. Demographers from around the world met to present and discuss their latest research. Three of our sociologists received awards: Julia Thomas received a poster award for her project, “Legacy of the ‘Forgotten Dead’: Lynching of Hispanics and Risk of …

Publications on Polyoccupationalism

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Fabien Accominotti, Léonie Hénaut, and Jennifer C. Lena published “Polyoccupationalism: the unexplored world of workers’ occupational identities” in Work In Progress. This article is a write up of their recent publication, “Polyoccupationalism: Expertise Stretch and Status Stretch in the Postindustrial Era,” which was published in America Sociological Review.