Anna Milewski

Interest Areas

Political Sociology, Social Movements, Sociology of Religion, Comparative-Historical Sociology 

My current research focuses on the relationship between religion, partisan politics, and marginalized social movements with a particular attention to the temporal changes in this relationship. Across several research projects, I study how marginalized movements use religion to access the political apparatus in an increasingly secular and partisan environment in the transition to the 21st century in the United States. My past research on the role of the structure of social movement organizations in claim dynamics under authoritarianism is published in Mobilization. I am also interested in methods of protest event data collection and newspapers as a source of protest event data. My work leverages novel data sources, and I employ quantitative and mixed methods including protest event analysis, social network analysis, and content analysis to build new theory in social movement studies. My research is typically case-based and often historical.

Previous Degrees

• M.S. Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• B.A. Sociology and Anthropology and Economics, Washington and Lee University

Publications

Oliver, Pamela, Chaeyoon Lim, Anna Milewski. “Uncovering Process and Sequence in Event Data.” In Processes of Collective Action, edited by Lorenzo Bosi and Stefan Malthaner. Temple University Press. In press. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/3gtfh_v3.

Oliver, Pamela, Chaeyoon Lim, Anna Milewski, and Erin Gaede. The Jena 6: Of Nooses, Fights, Narratives, and Movement Building. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Elements in Contentious Politics. In press.

Milewski, Anna. 2025. “Diffuse Social Movement Organizations As Focal Points For Novel Demands Under Repression: East Germany’s Peaceful Revolution, 1989-1990.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly 30 (2): 207–26. https://doi.org/10.17813/1086- 671X-30-2-207.