University of Wisconsin-Madison
Assistant Professor Max Besbris has been in the media lately after Hurricane Ian. Along with his colleague Anna Rhodes, Besbris conducted interviews with dozens of homeowners in Houston over the two years after Hurricane Harvey. They found that disaster can increase inequality in a community, causing differences in wealth, mobility and vulnerability. They examined factors …
An opinion piece, titled “Losing Your Neighborhood to Climate Change is Sometimes Necessary” was published in “The New York Times” by Assistant Professor Max Besbris with Anna Rhodes, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice University. They are authors of the book “Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery From Disaster” which contains interviews of …
Congratulations to Mosi Ifatunji, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and Sociology, for being awarded funding for the pilot grant “Racial Context and the Relative Health of African Americans & Foreign-Born Blacks: Linking Health in Early Life to Health Later in Life Among Older Black Adults.” Ifatunji will research early life health status and its links …
The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) established its new dissertation research grants program to support innovative and high-quality research projects that are closely aligned with its funding priorities, contribute to RSF’s mission to improve social and living conditions in the United States, and demonstrate appropriate use of relevant theory, innovative data, rigorous research methods, and measures. …
In collaboration with Department of Sociology graduate students Chloe Haimson and Jienian Zhang and investigators at the UW–Madison’s Carbone Center, Associate Professor John Eason’s research on racial disparities in cancer treatment and survival has found that non-Hispanic Black patients in Wisconsin were half as likely as white patients to get any treatment for pancreatic cancer …
The La Follette School of Public Affairs, the Center for Demography of Health & Aging, and the Hilldale Lecture Series are pleased to host Anne Case, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus, at Princeton University, as the 2022 Hilldale Lecture in the Social Sciences. On April 14 from 7-8 pm, join …
Congratulations to graduate student Taylor Laemmli for having her paper, “Workers and Their Foes: Low-Autonomy Precarious Work in the Service Triad,” selected for the Harry Braverman Award by the Labor Studies Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Robert Manduca, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, presented a department colloquium “Wealth as Control of the Future” on Monday, February 21. Manduca’s research focuses on the rising income inequality in the United States. He also examines the role that national policy decisions play in determining the economic viability of cities and …
This week Pam Oliver, Professor Emerita, was featured in WalletHub’s recent piece about States with the Highest Wealth Gaps by Race/Ethnicity. Oliver explains “income inequality has increased sharply and the increase is due to rising income in the top 1%, which has very few Black or Hispanic people in it.” She also replies to questions …
Research from Ph.D. candidate Kelsey Q. Wright was featured in a new addition to the PRB Resource Library. Experiencing poverty shapes women’s access and use of contraceptives even when the services are free. Wright’s research on racial and socioeconomic factors that affect contraception selection and use was recently published in Social Science & Medicine.