University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Sociology department proudly recognizes three individuals, a faculty member, a student lecturer, and a teaching assistant, who have gone above and beyond to foster inclusive, challenging, and productive learning environments for our students. Faculty Teaching Award: Professor Christine Schwartz Christine Schwartz was honored with the department’s Faculty Teaching Award. In her long tenure at …
Sex & Sexualities Abstract: Scholars of sexual citizenship have articulated two rights—the right to pursue desired sexual activity and to avoid sexual harm—that may conflict when a person expresses romantic or sexual interest in a coworker. Although an advance may yield a desired relationship, it may also cause harm. To what extent is this tension …
The UW–Madison Sociology Board of Visitors is proud to announce that Matthew Desmond (PhD ’10) has been selected as this year’s Devah Pager Distinguished Alumnus. The award, named in memory of the late Devah Pager, a transformative sociologist and beloved colleague, recognizes alumni who have demonstrated extraordinary scholarship and a commitment to the Wisconsin Idea. …
British Journal of Psychiatry Abstract: Background Children and adolescents with attention–deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have a higher likelihood of contact with child welfare services (CWS). Evidence on whether pharmacological treatment of ADHD reduces such contact is limited. Aims To estimate the causal effect of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on CWS contact. Method In this quasi-experimental …
Léonie Hénaut was interviewed by Accounts, the ASA Economic Sociology section newsletter, for her work on occupational identities in the contemporary workforce. Léonie is an Associate Professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), a faculty member of the Center for the Sociology of Organizations at SciencesPo Paris, and an Honorary Fellow at …
npj Womens Health Abstract: Miscarriage is a common pregnancy complication that is difficult to study. Using information on 580,000 US pregnancies from a menstrual- and pregnancy-tracking app, we demonstrate that mobile device data can detect miscarriage and replicate patterns of miscarriage risk found in high-quality Norwegian administrative data and in US clinical cohorts. App data …
James Rosenberg was awarded a six month visiting fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies in Bochum, Germany. He was also awarded a DAAD Research Grant to fund dissertation research in Germany from September 2026 to August 2027. His research is motivated by an interest in the way digital technologies shape social processes and …
Low Fertilities in the Past and Present: Studies in Compositional Demography
Qualitative Sociology Abstract: How do nature and community formation intersect in quintessentially urban New York City? In this ethnographic case study of Central Park, I show that park-based communities act as a rich source of affective social capital in the lives of their members. This sort of social capital is oriented around emotional ties and …
The British Journal of Sociology Abstract: Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the transmission of …