UW-Madison Sociology
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Official account for the Department of Sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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"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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January 21, 2026 at 6:57 PM
"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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"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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Childhood fluoride exposure and cognition across the life course
Childhood fluoride exposure is associated with higher academic achievement in high school.
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January 21, 2026 at 4:53 PM
"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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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...
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...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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...
"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...
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 ...
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January 12, 2026 at 3:52 PM
"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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January 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
"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...
Meiyi Li, Yiang Li, and Michal Engelman in Social Science & Medicine. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Redirecting
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December 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"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...
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...
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
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December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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"
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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
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December 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"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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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...
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 ...
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December 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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...
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...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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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November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"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 spoke on a National Academies panel entitled "Extreme Weather Events and Insurance: Households, Homeowners, and Risk." sociology.wisc.edu/2025/11/17/m...
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...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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...
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
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November 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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.”
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...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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
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......
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November 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"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
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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
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November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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
@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...
<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...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"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.
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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...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Chad Alan Goldberg was interviewed by WPR about lawmakers weighing the adoption of a controversial definition of antisemitism.
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"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
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Objective This paper investigates contemporary household economies of gratitude and resentment, assessing how discrepancies between partners' expectations relate to their emotions and household labo...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"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.
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...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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.
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...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"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.
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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
October 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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)!
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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...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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
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October 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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.
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The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of it.
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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...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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...
The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of it.
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