UW-Madison Sociology

As a public university, @UWMadison 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. uwalumni.com/advocate/

.@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-magazi…

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 doi.org/10.1093/socpro…

.@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/SMR

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. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…

📃 Katherine Jensen published “Epistemological Vigilance as Ethnographic Practice” in Qualitative Sociology. doi.org/10.1007/s11133…

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.

🎉 Congratulations @JessicaCalarco on your election as ASA's 2026-2027 Vice President!

Major congrats to our scholarship winners this year!

📄Benny Witovsky and undergrad 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

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/2025/05/08/chl…

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

📖 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. #v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr…

🏆 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. sociology.wisc.edu/2025/04/25/126…

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

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

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

Research by Christine Schwartz was mentioned in @TheAtlantic article "The New Marriage of Unequals." theatlantic.com/family/archive…

Congratulations, #UWGrad Class of 2025! 🎓🎉🦡👐

🌟 Congratulations to Jane Ahn for her @MidwestSoc Scholarship Award! This award goes to help support Jane’s thesis, which focuses on how religion and science, as cultural actors, shape belief in climate change.