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/...

"Why are some workers more likely to strike and bargain over 'common good' demands than others?" Sara Gia Trongone published "Working for the Public Good: Organizational Dilemmas & Strategy in Public-Sector Unions" in Work and Occupations. doi.org/10.1177/0730...

🎉Congratulations Jessica Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com) on your election as ASA's 2026-2027 Vice President!

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Congratulations, Dr. Madison Garcia! 🥳

📄 Ang Yu @ang-yu.bsky.social and Jiwei Zhao @jiweizhao.bsky.social‬ published "Counterfactual Slopes and Their Applications in Social Stratification" in Sociological Methodology. doi.org/10.1177/0081...

"Does intergenerational occupational mobility impact health and well-being net of occupational origins and destinations?" Hyeyun Jeong, Jiahui Xu, John Robert Warren, Liying Luo, Eric Grodsky, and Chandra Muller www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to Max Besbris on his selection as an H.I. Romnes Fellow for 2025-2026! research.wisc.edu/faculty-rece...

Who is seen as the “ideal victim” in workplace harassment narratives? Research from Chloe Grace Hart (@uwsoc.bsky.social) traces how cultural scripts shifted during the MeToo era, influenced by race, behavior, and power doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spad016

Holding It Together is currently ~1/2 off the regular price. If you want the backstory of how we got here--to the point where billionaires are destroying the social safety net and forcing women to be our crisis management team--I've got the book for you. www.amazon.com/Holding-Toge...

IDS affiliate Felix Elwert of @uwsoc.bsky.social and @ang-yu.bsky.social have uncovered a new approach to measuring the causes of inequalities between groups. Read about it at ids.wisc.edu/2025/07/08/y...

📃 Katherine Jensen published “Epistemological Vigilance as Ethnographic Practice” in Qualitative Sociology. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

James Rosenberg was awarded a grant from UW-Madison's Institute for Regional and International Studies to conduct summer dissertation research in Singapore. He was also awarded a Junior Visiting Fellowship at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna for Fall 2025.

Rising housing costs are forcing some Wisconsinites to delay medical care, according to a new report from Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social, Tessa Conroy @irpwisc.bsky.social, and Steven Deller @cdhauw.bsky.social of the Rural Livability Project. www.wpr.org/news/rising-...

📄 Grad student Benny Witovsky and undergraduate research scholar Carter Burg had a paper accepted to #ASA2025! Catch their presentation of "Stalwarts, Socialists, and Reformers: The Contested Meaning of Nonpartisan Politics in Progressive Era Wisconsin" this August in Chicago. @asanews.bsky.social

Congrats to Chloe Rosenstock (@crosenstock.bsky.social), who received an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition this year! sociology.wisc.edu/2025/05/08/c...

"Authoritarianism evokes phenomenal realities of different kinds: rules, behaviors, institutional settings, representations, dispositions, and attitudes." Ivan Ermakoff published “Conceptualizing Authoritarianism” in the Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics. doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

📖 Chloe Hart and Ivana Vranjes published "Ambiguously Sexual Interactions," a chapter in the book "What the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Workplace Sexual Harassment," edited by Anne M. O'Leary-Kelly and Shannon L. Rawski. books.google.com/books?hl=en&...

🏆 Molly Clark-Barol was selected as the recipient of the Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Graduate Award from @morgridgecenter.bsky.social for her collaboration with FREE, a statewide community organizing network of women impacted by the criminal justice system. sociology.wisc.edu/2025/04/25/1...

📄 Sadie Dempsey (@sadiemdempsey.bsky.social) published "In the Shadow of Sunshine Laws: Open Meeting Laws and Administrative Burdens" in Democracy, Governance, and Law. www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

The threats of global warming mean that local officials need to “rethink what a conventional home looks like,” said Max Besbris to @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/n...

📃 Avery Warner #published “Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts” in Social Science Research. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Research by Christine Schwartz was mentioned in The Atlantic article "The New Marriage of Unequals." www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...