University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fordham Law Review Abstract: This Essay examines the asymmetry of representation in poor people’s courts, specifically in child support enforcement cases involving the State. The asymmetry of representation is a common occurrence in various civil law fields, but it is notably prominent in family law, which has the highest number of unrepresented parties. As one …
Thirty-one exceptional graduate students have been selected as recipients of the 2023-24 Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Awards, recognizing their strengths and commitment surrounding the craft of teaching. Among them are Lucas Wiscons, who received a Capstone Teaching Award, and Kristen Billings, who received an Early Excellence in Teaching Award. Kristen Billings is a PhD student in …
American Sociological Review Abstract: The financialization of the U.S. economy has had important implications for household well-being, but the mechanisms connecting financialization and precarity have not been fully identified. This research identifies mortgage foreclosure as a nexus connecting macro-level financialization to an array of downstream consequences for homeowners and asks (1) how mortgage securitization, a …
On Friday, February 23, 2024, Monica Grant delivered the annual Sewell Memorial lecture, titled “Fertility Responses to Climate Change in Malawi.” Seventy members of the Sociology community attended the lecture, including faculty, staff, emeriti, students, and family members. A reception followed the talk. The annual Sewell Memorial Lecture honors William H. Sewell, for whom the …
Annual Review of Sociology Abstract: Real estate plays an essential part in various sociological theories of political economy, state capacity, racecraft, stratification, and urbanization. However, since foundational insights about the novelty of commodified, emplaced private property from theorists like Du Bois and Polanyi, these disparate threads have not been tied together into a coherent field …
During the summer after her first year as a grad student, Anupama Kumar traveled to Thiruvanathapuram, India to intern with Kudumbashree NRO as a part of her fellowship from the Institute for Regional and International Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC). Kudumbashree is an organization in Anupama’s home state, Kerala, which was set up by …
Chiara Packard has won the 2023-2024 UW Madison’s Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for Outstanding Research in the Social Sciences for her paper “Prosecution for Services: How the Blending of Coercion and Care Shapes Prosecutors’ Decisions.” Julia Thomas received an honorable mention for the 2023-2024 Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for her paper “The Legacy of Lynching: …
Gender & Society. Abstract: Invisible power—the ability to resist changing one’s behavior because of an unspoken consensus that the status quo is natural or inevitable—upholds gender inequality in different-gender marriages. Yet the “consensus” that Aafke Komter documented more than 30 years ago—one in which both men and women endorsed male primacy and believed it natural …
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Abstract: Trends in life expectancy and marriage patterns work together to determine expected lifetime years married. In 1880, adult life expectancy was short and marriages were more likely to end by death than divorce. Since then, although there have been substantial life expectancy gains in adulthood, marriage …
Alumnus Dom Ricks was featured in an article in the Wisconsin State Journal for his work as the first Black principal in the history of the Middleton-Cross Plains School District. Dom earned his BA in Sociology in 2014, and he returned to UW–Madison for his MS in Education Leadership & Policy Analysis.