A feature from UW News explores affiliate Christine Schwartz’s research documenting how opportunity and change in the U.S. occupational structure shaped patterns of occupational assortative mating between 1970 and 2015–17. Schwartz and her colleagues from Duke Kunshan University and UCLA published their findings in the September issue of Social Science Research.
We were deeply saddened by the passing of Franklin Wilson on December 22, 2020. Franklin was an exceptional scholar, teacher, mentor and friend, and he leaves behind a profound legacy in the Departments of Sociology and Afro-American Studies, in CDE/CDHA, and in the broader field. An obituary for Franklin was published in Footnotes of the American Sociological …
If you weren’t able to join this summer’s DemSemX sessions, recordings of each session are now available. The first session, “Life after Tenure” was held on July 23 and featured Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez (UCLA), Jennie Brand (UCLA), and Jack DeWaard (Minnesota). The July 30 session, “Later-Stage Career Choices,” featured Adam Gamoran (William T. Grant Foundation), Jennifer …
DemSemX is back this summer with two sessions on academic midlife on July 23 and 30, beginning at 1:00 Central. Within academia, there is a lot of focus and advice around getting tenure—understandably, as it represents a singular evaluation hurdle within tenure-granting institutions. Yet, academic careers can be long, and there are many decisions to …
Within the current context of global climate change, the study of how environmental changes are shaping individual behaviors related to human migration, mortality, and fertility is among the most pressing issues confronting population research and policy. To bring together scholars conducting research at the intersection of environmental studies and demography, CDE and the Applied Population …
CDE extends a hearty congratulations to the recent CDE/CDHA graduate students who completed their PhDs this spring! Sebastian Daza (Sociology) joined the ECHO project (Early Conditions, Delayed Adult Effects, and Morbidity, Disability, and Mortality in Modern Human Populations) at Instituto de Economía, Geografía y Demografía in Madrid as a Senior Researcher. Ellie Holzhausen Jin (Population …
To achieve maternal health equity, decision makers have implemented implicit bias training in perinatal care settings. Implicit bias refers to negative attitudes toward and beliefs about a group and its members that are spontaneously and automatically activated. In a recent article, “Rethinking Bias to Achieve Maternal Health Equity,” CDE affiliate Tiffany Green argues that legislative …
Congratulations to Michael Light who received funding from the Russell Sage Foundation for the project “Colorism and Criminal Case Processing.” Using arrest data from Texas’s Computerized Criminal History system, sociologist Michael Light will analyze arrests in the state’s 254 counties between 2006 and 2018 to examine the extent to which skin tone inequality is a …
Several CDE affiliates have received prestigious university-supported awards and honors. Malia Jones (Applied Population Lab) was named a recipient of an Academic Staff Excellence Award from the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents. These awards recognize exceptional service to the university and are the UW System’s highest recognition bestowed on members of its academic …
CDE and CDHA affiliates were busy at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America in May. At the virtual conference, 60 affiliates, including faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and scientists, appeared on the program 132 times as authors, presenters, chairs, or discussants. A list of appearances can be found here. Special thanks go to …