"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...

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 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" doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

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...

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. doi.org/10.1177/0891...

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...

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...

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.”

"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

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

"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...

Chad Alan Goldberg was interviewed by WPR about lawmakers weighing the adoption of a controversial definition of antisemitism. sociology.wisc.edu/2025/10/30/w...

"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

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.

"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

Congratulatoins to Jimin Gim, who received the Student Paper Award from the 2025 International Conference on the Sociology of Korea (I-CSK)! sociology.wisc.edu/2025/10/15/j...

Congratulations to Pedro Moisés, who was awarded a fellowship from the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies at UW-Madison! sts.wisc.edu

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. sociology.wisc.edu/2025/09/24/w...

📢 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 ➡️

Congratulations to Sarah "Frankie" Frank for receiving a Distinguished Honors Faculty Award! sociology.wisc.edu/2025/09/28/f...

Emma-Claire LaSaine published a class syllabus for “Ethnic Movements in the United States” in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. trails.asanet.org/article/view...

"By focusing on mesolevel interactions between the family and school settings, this study expands research on the implications of family composition for students’ and parents’ experiences at school." Emma Romell (@emmaromell.bsky.social) in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social

As a public university, @uwmadison.bsky.social is affected by the decisions of our state & federal governments. We need people to speak up about issues that affect our students & faculty and the critical work they do for the world. Find out how you can support UW Sociology at uwalumni.com/advocate/

"...Our results reveal joint patterns of child maltreatment and foster care placement that cannot be detected with simple descriptive statistics..." -Martin Eiermann, Garrett Baker, and Christopher J. Wildeman in @sfjournal.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

“People should not be concerned about the U.S. population into the future.” PBS News Hour interviewed Nicholas Mark about the pronatalism movement encouraging Americans to have more children. @pbsnews.org @nickdemark.bsky.social

Research by Ang Yu and Felix Elwert about social inequalities caught the attention of the Institute for Diversity Science, who published a piece focusing on their work. ids.wisc.edu/2025/07/08/y...

A great day to visit WCER, ITP, and @uwsoc.bsky.social!

"This study investigates whether and how spousal similarity in outlook on life is linked to later-life well-being." Yue Qin, Sara Moorman, and Michal Engelman (@michalengelman.bsky.social) in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. doi.org/10.1093/gero...

A study by Mariana Nozela Prado and IDS Affiliate Chloe Grace Hart is broadening our understanding of the sorts of sexual harassment faced by gender minorities in the workplace. cc: @uwsoc.bsky.social ids.wisc.edu/2025/09/11/s...

"Findings shed light on the changing relationship between parenthood and work for men and suggest continued steps toward gender equality." -Anita Li in @readdemography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/0070...

Erin Gaede (@eringaede.bsky.social) received the RSS Rural Poverty RIG Graduate Student Paper Award for her research on rural housing insecurity. sociology.wisc.edu/2025/08/16/e...

Congratulations to #UWSoc faculty member serving in ASA sections. Fabien Accominotti (@faccominotti.bsky.social) will chair the ASA Section on Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society, and Eunsil Oh has been elected onto the Council for @asa-family.bsky.social.

Congrats to UW Sociology Board of Visitors Vice Chair Lisa Youngers, who has been selected as one of the 50 Women to Watch for on Boards! 5050wob.com/honorees/lis...

"These findings recalibrate our understanding of the scope, target, and impact of national immigration enforcement programs." -Michael Light and Avery Warner in @amjsoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/736606

"...Americans may be accustomed to a certain kind of person who tells a certain kind of account of sexual harassment, while people whose experiences of sexual harassment deviate from this model may be less legible to the public as plausible targets." -Chloe Grace Hart

James Rosenberg conducted archival research in Singapore on the country’s “Singpass” initiative, and Michael Zaslavsky (@mzaslavs.bsky.social) studied the relationship between the Ukrainian and Russian communities in Türkiye.

Sara R. Ronnkvist @sararonnkvist.bsky.social, Zoé Haskell-Craig, Abbie Robinson, Risto Conte Keivabu, Mathew E. Hauer, Domenico Bovienzo & Emilio Zagheni published "What’s the TEE: Metrics of temperature Extremes in Europe NUTS Regions (1980-2024)" in Scientific Data. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Congratulations to Erin Gaede ‪‪@eringaede.bsky.social on receiving a 2025 Dissertation Grant from the National Institute of Social Sciences (NISS)! @socialsciencesinst.bsky.social ‬

"Sociodemographic characteristics differentiate the experience of fatherhood more than of motherhood." Paula Fomby @pfomby.bsky.social, Marcia J. Carlson @marcyc.bsky.social, and Ariane Ophir @arianeophir.bsky.social published a chapter on parenthood experiences in Advances of Social Demography.

Congrats to Bijoyetri Samaddar (@bijoyetri.bsky.social), who received two fellowships and a scholarship to help advance her sociological research! sociology.wisc.edu/2025/08/14/b...

📃 Emily E. Burke (@emilyeburke.bsky.social) published “A Faithful Force: Catholics as Pillars of the Conservative Movement” in Journal of Religion and Society. moses.creighton.edu/JRS/toc/SS26...

Research about housing and health by Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social, Tessa Conroy @irpwisc.bsky.social, and Steven Deller @cdhauw.bsky.social made an appearance in The Badger Herald. badgerherald.com/news/wiscons...

"Confederate memorialization is not limited to the United States. After the Civil War, thousands of former Confederates emigrated to Brazil where slavery continued.” -Katherine Jensen in @ersjournal.com doi.org/10.1080/0141...

📝 Yue Qin published "Security Capital in the Field of Work: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Precarity and Social Inequality" in Work, Employment, and Society (@wesjnl.bsky.social). doi.org/10.1177/0950...

So Yun Park received an ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) for the 2025–2026 academic year for her dissertation, "Navigating Family Leave Usage in the Workplace: Unpacking Institutional, Cultural, and Social Influences." sociology.wisc.edu/2025/07/28/s...

📄Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Joseph Clark, Amy Schultz, Michal Engelman, and Kristen Malecki published "Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial and geographic disparities in epigenetic aging" in SSM - Population Health. doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

📖 Martin Eiermann, one of our newest faculty members, is celebrating the release of his book "The Limiting Principle: How Privacy Became a Public Issue," published by Columbia University Press. cup.columbia.edu/book/the-lim...

"How can we better theorize collective defenses and their role in the social world?" Mustafa Emirbayer published "Collective Defense Mechanisms" in American Sociological Review. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...