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Rose Lavelle named Female Player of the Year by U.S. Soccer In 2017, Sociology major Rose Lavelle graduated from UW-Madison. Fast forward to today, and Rose has added another achievement to her impressive resume: she was named the 2025 Female Player of the Yea...

In 2017, Sociology major Rose Lavelle graduated from UW-Madison. Fast forward to today, and Rose has added another achievement to her impressive resume: she was named the 2025 Female Player of the Year by U.S. Soccer!

Morgan Henson selected for the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Morgan Henson has been selected for induction into the prestigious Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. This national society recognizes exceptional scholarly achievement and personal excellence ...

This national society recognizes exceptional scholarly achievement and personal excellence among doctoral students, and fosters a network of scholars committed to leadership, service, and advocacy in the academy. sociology.wisc.edu/2026/01/12/m...

Economic Abuse, Compared to Emotional Abuse and Physical Abuse, Is Minimized More, Victims Are Blamed More, and Victims Are Provided with Less Legal Advice Economic Abuse (EA) is an understudied phenomenon experienced by Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) victims. The purpose of this study was to examine how participants minimized IPV, blamed IPV victims, a...

“We discuss the need to raise public awareness of EA and the importance of extending more social resources to EA victims." -Alice Nuo-Yi Wangorcid, Niwako Yamawakiorcid, Yuki Nohagiorcid, Rachel Umphress, Jane Greenorcid, Catalina Valdezorcid in Psychology.
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James Rosenberg co-PI for “What’s in my e-wallet? Citizen perceptions of the EU digital identity wallet across Europe” James Rosenberg will be co-PI on a competitive WZB Cross-Sector Collaborations Grant entitled “What’s in my e-wallet? Citizen perceptions of the EU digital identity wallet across Europe,” which will f...

Congratulations, James Rosenberg! sociology.wisc.edu/2026/01/14/j...

"The outsized impact of behavioral causes of death underscores their strategic importance for improving longevity in the United States.” -Glenn Firebaugh and Michael T. Light in @sociusjournal.bsky.social
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Childhood fluoride exposure and cognition across the life course Childhood fluoride exposure is associated with higher academic achievement in high school.

"We find that children exposed to recommended levels of fluoride in drinking water exhibit modestly better cognition in secondary school...” -Eric Grodsky and colleagues in Science Advances.
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Jane Ahn selected as a TA Fellow Jane Ahn has been selected as a Writing-Across-the-Curriculum TA Fellow for her work as a Communication-B instructor, mentoring over 120 new communication assistants in courses from various discipline...

Congratulations to Jane Ahn, who was recognized for her work mentoring Teaching Assistants and named a Writing-Across-the-Curriculum TA Fellow. sociology.wisc.edu/2025/12/08/j...

Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarker Concentrations by Race and Ethnicity in Midlife This cohort study investigates race and ethnicity differences in plasma concentrations for biomarkers of Alzheimer disease and assesses the association between these biomarkers and medical conditions ...

"The incidence and prevalence of clinical Alzheimer disease (AD) are higher among Black and Latinx older adults than among White older adults.” -Eric Grodsky and colleagues in @jamanetworkopen.com doi.org/10.1001/jama...

"This would provide tools with which to grasp empirical phenomena of interest to economic sociologists, political economists, and policy scholars that elude existing sociological approaches.” -James Rosenberg, @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social
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"We find gender differences in associations between spousal cognitive decline and marital strain."

Meiyi Li, Yiang Li, and Michal Engelman in Social Science & Medicine. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

How does life course exposure to contextual disadvantage accelerate biological aging? The role of psychological symptoms AbstractObjectives. Recent research has found that life course exposure to contextual socioeconomic disadvantage may accelerate biological aging, providing

Christina Kamis, Wei Xu, Amy Schultz, Joseph Clark, Michal Engelman, and Kristen Malecki published "How Does Life Course Exposure to Contextual Disadvantage Accelerate Biological Aging? The Role of Psychological Symptoms" in The Journals of Gerontology Series B. doi.org/10.1093/gero...

The Oxford Handbook of Social Stratification Abstract. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot ad

"The heterogeneous inequality and social stratification trajectories of the countries in question suggest that there is still room to theorize divergent outcomes.” -Theodore P. Gerber & Michael Zaslavsky, "Inequality and Stratification in the Transitions from Socialism"
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Danielle Schmidt receives 2025 CIAS Graduate Student Summer Research Mini-Grant Danielle Schmidt received a 2025 Graduate Student Summer Research Mini-Grant from the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS). She interviewed ranchers in northeastern Montana for her study ...

Congrats to Danielle Schmidt, who received a grant for her research on agricultural land transitioning to conservation reserves. sociology.wisc.edu/2025/11/26/d...

Bijoyetri Samaddar receives Midwest Sociological Society scholarship Bijoyetri Samaddar received a scholarship from the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) for her research into knowledge production in policy-oriented organizations. The next MSS Annual Meeting will be M...

Congratulations to Bijoyetri Samaddar, who received a scholarship from the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) for her research into knowledge production in policy-oriented organizations! sociology.wisc.edu/2025/11/21/b...

"While scholars show that child protection is tied to the regulation of motherhood, we know little about how mothers of color were treated in early child welfare history." -Michaela Simmons in Gender & Society.
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Max Besbris speaks on National Academies panel Max Besbris spoke on a National Academies panel entitled “Extreme Weather Events and Insurance: Households, Homeowners, and Risk.” A recording of the event is available to view here. He discussed rese...

Max Besbris spoke on a National Academies panel entitled "Extreme Weather Events and Insurance: Households, Homeowners, and Risk." sociology.wisc.edu/2025/11/17/m...

Decriminalizing or reassembling schools? Implications of removing police from schools for racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice system contact ABSTRACT. Calls to remove school-based law enforcement (SBLE) have grown in tandem with widespread SBLE presence. Central to these calls are issues of equi

Catalina Valdez, Benjamin W. Fisher, and Abigail J. Beneke published "Decriminalizing or reassembling schools? Implications of removing police from schools for racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice system contact" in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/socp...

Youbin Kang named co-winner of Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award Alum Youbin Kang (2024) was named one of two co-winners of the Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award from the Comparative Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. She’s curren...

Ph.D. alum Youbin Kang (2024) was named one of two co-winners of the Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award from the Comparative Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association for her dissertation, “Underground Labor and the Politics of Money in Public Transit.”

Dementia prevalence in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study INTRODUCTION While there is growing appreciation of the importance of sociobiological determinants of dementia, few lifespan cohorts offer well-characterized dementia outcomes to explore these aims......

"While there is growing appreciation of the importance of sociobiological determinants of dementia, few lifespan cohorts offer well‐characterized dementia outcomes to explore these aims." @cdhauw.bsky.social @cdeuw.bsky.social

Podcasts | American Sociological Association Each month, several authors of articles published in ASA journals record podcasts in which they provide, through an interview format, an overview of their

Katherine Jensen, @bwitkovsky.bsky.social, and Monika Krause's article, “Human Rights as a Lay Category of Thought,” was the featured Socius article in the ASA Journals Newsletter. Listen to the accompanying podcast about the article here. www.asanet.org/publications...
@asanews.bsky.social

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library The extent to which women outlive men in the United States has fluctuated over the 20th century, with periods of equalization, stagnation, and increase. Women's life expectancy advantage declined for...

"Women’s life expectancy advantage declined for roughly four decades but resurged after 2012." - Rodrigo González-Velastín and Christine Schwartz in Population and Development Review. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

WPR interviews Chad Alan Goldberg about antisemitism Wisconsin Public Radio interviewed Chad Alan Goldberg about a proposal for the Wisconsin state legislature to adopt an official definition of antisemitism. “The definition could be a useful tool to de...

Chad Alan Goldberg was interviewed by WPR about lawmakers weighing the adoption of a controversial definition of antisemitism.
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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This paper investigates contemporary household economies of gratitude and resentment, assessing how discrepancies between partners' expectations relate to their emotions and household labo...

"Expressions of gratitude and resentment revealed considerable divergence between men’s and women’s expectations." -Allison Daminger, Amanda Nerenberg, Rachel Drapper, Alexandra C. Feldberg, & Kathleen L. McGinn in @jmfncfr.bsky.social

Morgan Henson receives Gullickson fellowship, serves on teaching support councils Morgan Henson received the Gullickson Fellowship from the College of Letters & Science for the second year in a row. His research investigates how the far right in the US and Europe leverages social i...

Gullickson Fellowship recipient Morgan Henson serves on the L&S Teaching & Learning Advisory Council, the L&S TA Training & Support Team, and the new Graduate Student Advisory Council.

The Social Psychology of Social Class and Mobility Compared to other social scientists, social psychologists have been less involved in efforts to explain patterns of social class reproduction and social class mobility, and when they have these consid...

"Compared to other social scientists, social psychologists have been less involved in efforts to explain patterns of social class reproduction and social class mobility." @crosenstock.bsky.social and @jessicacalarco.com in Handbook of Social Psychology.

ASA’s TRAILS is a teaching resource free 4 ASA members! In “Ethnic Movements in the United States” (Emma-Claire LaSaine @uwsoc.bsky.social) you get guidance on goals & assessments to help students sociologically analyze historical & recent movements in the U.S. https://bit.ly/4nOBBfz

Jimin Gim receives Student Paper Award from International Conference on the Sociology of Korea Jimin Gim received the Student Paper Award from the 2025 International Conference on the Sociology of Korea (I-CSK). She presented her paper “Optimizing Motherhood: How Mothers Understand and Manage C...

Congratulatoins to Jimin Gim, who received the Student Paper Award from the 2025 International Conference on the Sociology of Korea (I-CSK)!
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Congratulations to Pedro Moisés, who was awarded a fellowship from the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies at UW-Madison! sts.wisc.edu

What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life by Allison Daminger Allison Daminger’s book, What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life, is now available through Princeton University Press. Mothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spendin...

Allison Daminger #published "What's on Her Mind?: The Mental Workload of Family Life" with @princetonupress.bsky.social

The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of it.

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📢 UW-Madison's Social Science Research Services (SSRS) is coordinating with @uwsoc.bsky.social to hire a communications and events specialist! SSRS staff support the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Center for the Demography of Health and Aging.
Interested? Learn more and apply by Oct. 16 ➡️