August 30, 2011:
- Faculty and students win awards at ASA, August 2011
June 9, 2011:
- Study finds that thin people earn more
In the video linked here, Steven Haas is interviewed on MSNBC about his research, which was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Haas, who earned his PhD from UW-Madison in 2004, worked with data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. | Read more...
- Senate confirms Cora Marrett as Deputy Director of NSF
Cora B. Marrett, professor emeritus of Sociology at UW-Madison, was confirmed by the Senate in May as the Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation. | Read more...
- Study examines impact of climate change
Katherine Curtis (Community and Environmental Sociology) and her colleague Annemarie Schneider (Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment) examine the impacts of rising oceans as one element of how a changing climate will affect humans. | Read more...
- Alberto Palloni named PAA Honored Member
Forty-five of Alberto Palloni's students and colleagues came together this Spring to honor his contributions to the field of demography. The honor was bestowed by PAA President David Lam on 1 April 2011 at this year's annual meeting of the Population Association of America.
Palloni joins other distinguished demographers so honored, including present and former UW Sociology faculty members Larry Bumpass, Judith Seltzer and Robert Mare. | Read more...
- Ted Gerber honored with Kellett Award
Eleven outstanding faculty members have been named winners of this year’s Kellett Mid-Career Awards. The Kellett award, supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), recognizes outstanding mid-career faculty members who are five to 20 years past the first promotion to a tenured position. Each winner, chosen by a Graduate School committee, receives a $60,000 flexible research award.
Theodore P. Gerber, sociology, has written 42 scholarly articles and numerous op-eds, policy briefs and book reviews on social, political, economic and demographic change in contemporary Russia. He directs the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia and recently received an Honored Instructor Award for his teaching in a first-year interest group core seminar. | Read more...
- Robert M. Hauser named Executive Director of NRC Division
Dr. Robert M. "Bob" Hauser, a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1983, has been appointed Executive Director of the National Research Council's Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE). Richard C. Atkinson, Chair of the DBASSE Advisory Committee said, "Dr. Hauser has had a brilliant academic career and has been a leader—nationally and internationally—in the social sciences. He is the perfect choice to lead DBASSE." | Read more...
- Cameron Macdonald book shines light on relationships between mothers, nannies
The most popular portrayals of the relationship between mothers and nannies are often extremes - think "The Nanny Diaries" or "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle."
In her new book, "Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering," Cameron Macdonald shows the reality is much more complex and what makes these relationships difficult is how tough American cultural norms are on working mothers. | Read more...
- Alex Hanna in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ever since the budget battle erupted in Madison, drawing parallels between Midwest and Mideast protest has proved irresistible to pundits and politicians.
But not to University of Wisconsin graduate student Alex Hanna, who has the unusual distinction of personally experiencing the protests in Cairo and Madison back-to-back. | Read more...
- Shamus Khan (PhD '08) book reviewed in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Columbia University's Shamus Rahman Khan is part of a new generation of academics profiled recently in the New York Times for focusing on elites rather than the poor. Instead of articulating the extra obstacles that disadvantaged students face, this research examines the special advantages provided to the children of elite.
This scholarship is important for people in higher education to help understand what Khan calls the paradox of "democratic inequality." | Read more...
- Bob Hauser named to AAAS national commission
As the American Academy of Arts & Sciences introduces a national commission to encourage research in the humanities and social sciences, the University of Wisconsin-Madison boasts strong representation.
Chancellor Biddy Martin will serve on the commission, joining alumnus John Rowe and sociology professor Robert Hauser. | Read more...
- Chad Alan Goldberg receives research fellowships
February 1, 2011:
- Chaeyoon Lim in USA Today
January 11, 2011:
- Matt Desmond wins 2011 Lumpkin Award
Matt Desmond has won this year's Lumpkin Award for his dissertation, "Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty," written under the supervision of Mustafa Emirbayer. Katherine DuPre Lumpkin received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1928. She had a career as a Professor of Sociology at Wells College with a focus on social justice and southern history. A fund in her honor supports an annual award for the best graduate student dissertation in the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at UW-Madison. | Read more...
- Wisconsin Longitudinal Study in the New York Times
Researchers have long known that education and good health are inextricably linked. Numerous studies have found that people with more years of schooling and higher education enjoy better health, over all, than those with less. But in a fascinating new report, investigators found that it is not just the number of degrees or years of education that make a difference, but another factor — class rank. | Read more...
- Study finds prayer can help handle harmful emotions
Those who choose to pray find personalized comfort during hard times, according to UW-Madison Sociology graduate student Shane Sharp. | Read more...
- Survey maps the life of a generation
A profile of some of the original Class of '57 graduates who for decades have formed the core of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a groundbreaking work that has charted a generation's rise from adolescence to older age. | Read more...
- Christine Schwartz in the Wall Street Journal
"Assortative mating"—the human urge to pair up with
someone who is similar to you—is on the increase in the U.S., according to research by
sociologists Robert Mare of UCLA and Christine Schwartz of the University of Wisconsin-
Madison. They found that those with college degrees are marrying people with college degrees at
higher rates than at any time in the last half-century. | Read more...
- Ivan Ermakoff receives the 2010 European Academy of Sociology Best Book Award for Ruling Oneself Out.
Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdication
Ivan Ermakoff
"What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute such actions to coercive pressures, actors' miscalculations, or their contamination by ideologies at odds with group interests. Ivan Ermakoff argues that these explanations are either incomplete or misleading. Focusing on two paradigmatic cases of voluntary and unconditional surrender of power—the passing of an enabling bill granting Hitler the right to amend the Weimar constitution without parliamentary supervision (March 1933), and the transfer of full executive, legislative, and constitutional powers to Marshal Pétain (Vichy, France, July 1940)—Ruling Oneself Out recasts abdication as the outcome of a process of collective alignment." –- Duke University Press | Read more...
- Cameron Macdonald on the "blurry line" between hospital and at-home care
When patients come home from the hospital after major surgery or a transplant, they often are not well enough to care for themselves, and more importantly, have complex medical needs that need to be monitored by others.
Family members and friends often step in as the "unrecognized long arm of the hospital," because specialized home nursing care can be too expensive, says Cameron Macdonald, an assistant professor of sociology and a scholar with the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. | Read more...
- Joel Rogers on Chancellor's "Meeting of the Minds" panel
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin will lead a dynamic conversation on Wednesday, Sept. 29, with four UW-Madison faculty at the top of their fields to cut through the chatter and tackle the issues at the core of what it means to live in a democracy in 2010. The inaugural Chancellor's Series: Meeting of the Minds at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York is open to UW alumni and friends. | Read more...
- Elizabeth Wrigley Field and Felix Elwert win Best Paper Award from the European Association of Population Studies
The 2010 Gunther Beyer Award for Best Paper by a Young Scholar was presented for their work entitled "Whose mortality decelerates? Multi-stage mortality selection and the poverty puzzle." | Read more...
- Robert Hauser receives Willard Waller Distinguished Career Award
The American Sociological Society's Sociology of Education section selected Robert M. Hauser for the 2010 Willard Waller Award. This award is given every three years to an individual who has had a career of distinguished scholarship in Sociology of Education. The award will be presented at the ASA Annual Meetings in August 2010. | Read more...
- Erik Olin Wright elected President of the American Sociological Association
Erik Wright has been elected to serve as the 103rd President of the American Sociological Association (ASA) for 2011-2012. | Read more...
- Cora Marrett named acting director of National Science Foundation
Marrett, who has a long history as a top administrator with the science agency, has been serving as acting deputy director of NSF since January of 2009. | Read more...
- Victoria Mayer (PhD '07) and Jane Collins publish new book Both Hands Tied on the working poor
Both Hands Tied studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin, it tells the story of their struggle to balance child care and wage-earning in poorly paying and often state-funded jobs with inflexible schedules—and the moments when these jobs failed them and they turned to the state for additional aid.
-- University of Chicago Press | Read more...
- Nora Cate Schaeffer named American Statistical Fellow
On May 20, 2010 The American Statistical Association (ASA), the nation’s preeminent professional statistical society, announced that Nora Cate Schaeffer has been named a Fellow of the Association. Recipients are recognized for their outstanding professional contributions to and leadership in the field of statistical science. The designation of Fellow has been a superlative honor in ASA for more than 90 years. According to the association by-laws, each year the Committee on Fellows can elect no more than one-third of one percent of the total ASA membership as Fellows. Individuals are nominated for the honor by fellow members and, to be selected, must have an established reputation and made outstanding contributions in some aspect of statistical work. | Read more...
- Chad Goldberg wins the 2010 Outstanding Book Award from the Theory Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for his book, Citizens and Paupers.
April 21, 2010:
- Cameron Macdonald featured on Wisconsin Public Radio's At Issue with Ben Merens (audio file)
This is the third of three segments of "healthcare reform 101" that Professor Macdonald has offered on the show, the first on the House Bill, the second on the Senate Bill, and this show on the broader implications of the bill that was recently signed into law. | Read more...
- Matt Desmond editorial in Chicago Tribune
"Housing crisis in the inner city:
Unchecked, foreclosures may lead to even harder times for poor renters" | Read more...
March 2, 2010:
- Kelly Musick (PhD '00) and Pamela Smock (PhD '92) in the New York Times
Two of our former graduate students, Kelly Musick (PhD '00) and Pamela Smock (PhD '92), were featured in a recent New York Times article on cohabitation and divorce. | Read more...
- Mara Loveman awarded a Letters & Science faculty development grant
She will use demographic methods on approaches to modeling racial and ethnic population changes. | Read more...
- Matt Desmond in the New York Times
"A Sight All Too Familiar in Poor Neighborhoods" | Read more...
