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.@madison_mag sat down with @UWSoc's Allison Daminger for a Q&A about her new book "What's on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life," which explores the imbalance of cognitive labor in families. channel3000.com/madison-maga…
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Who is seen as the “ideal victim” in workplace harassment narratives? Research from Chloe Grace Hart (@UWSoc) traces how cultural scripts shifted during the MeToo era, influenced by race, behavior, and power
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.@SageJournals Sociological Methods & Research—housed at DSI—achieved a one-year impact factor of 6.5, ranking #3/210 among all sociology journals worldwide. Congrats to editor Felix Elwert, @UWSoc, and the @UWMadison students who have worked on SMR. journals.sagepub.com/home/SM…
We're hiring! Please share with your networks!
The Department of Sociology at @UWMadison 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.
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📃 Katherine Jensen published “Epistemological Vigilance as Ethnographic Practice” in Qualitative Sociology. doi.org/10.1007/s11133-025-0…
James Rosenberg was awarded a grant from @uw_iris 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.
ALT Photo of James Rosenberg. Text: James Rosenberg. Institute for Regional and International Studies Grant and Junior Visiting Fellowship.
🎉 Congratulations @JessicaCalarco on your election as ASA's 2026-2027 Vice President!
We are pleased to announce that Alford Young, Jr. @umichLSA @UMich has been elected the 2026-2027 ASA President, and Jessica Calarco @UWSoc @UWMadison has been elected Vice President. Read full election results: bit.ly/3mFBhFz.
Congrats to Chloe Rosenstock (@ChloeRosenstock)! She plans to investigate how elite parents make sense of poverty and how they make decisions for their families based on these beliefs. sociology.wisc.edu/2025/05/0…
"Authoritarianism evokes phenomenal realities of different kinds: rules, behaviors, institutional settings, representations, dispositions, and attitudes."
Ivan Ermakoff in the Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics
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📖 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.
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🏆 Molly Clark-Barol was selected as the recipient of the Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Graduate Award from @MorgridgeCenter for her collaboration with FREE, a statewide community organizing network of women impacted by the criminal justice system.
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📄 Sadie Dempsey (@sadiemdempsey) published "In the Shadow of Sunshine Laws: Open Meeting Laws and Administrative Burdens" in Democracy, Governance, and Law.
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The threats of global warming mean that local officials need to “rethink what a conventional home looks like,” said Max Besbris to @nytimes.
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📃 Avery Warner #published “Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts” in Social Science Research.
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Research by Christine Schwartz was mentioned in @TheAtlantic article "The New Marriage of Unequals." theatlantic.com/family/archi…
