University of Wisconsin–Madison

Junior Conference

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

10:00am – 12:00pm

Location: Multicultural Greek Council Room, Memorial Union

On Tuesday, June 16th, IDS will host the second annual spring IDS Junior Conference, a fast-paced interdisciplinary conference featuring research conducted by IDS Graduate Fellows.

Schedule
9:45-10:10 am: Registration, networking (coffee, tea, snacks)
10:10-10:50 am: First session of talks

  • Padideh Hassanpour, Jiwon Lee, L. B. Klein, Jeneile Luebke, Taylan Stulting, Sanika Panwalkar, and Kate Walsh (all UW-Madison) – Validating a Survivor-Centered Measure of Barriers and Facilitators to Sexual Assault Services.
  • Michelle Marji, William Wang, Matteo Cleary, Terry Evans, Jordyn Chesir, and Paula Niedenthal (all UW-Madison) – Belonging as a Mechanism Linking Metastereotypes to Black Americans’ Restoration and Vigilance in Parks.
  • Nahime Aguirre Mtanous, Sarah Effertz, Yesang Cho, Shaun Eack, Lauren Bishop (all UW-Madison, except Eack who is at the University of Pittsburgh) – Psychosocial Interventions for Autistic Adults: A Systematic Review
  • Benjamin Lebovitz (UW-Madison) – Pathways of Protection: LGBTQ+ Peer Density, School Climate, and Trans Youth Well-Being in Wisconsin.
  • Naomi Isenberg, Angela Byars-Winston, Jirs Meuris, So Hee Hyun, Markus Brauer, Jenna Griebel Rogers (all UW-Madison) – Developing a Disposition for Inclusive Leadership Scale: A New Tool for Research and Practice.

10:50-11:10 am: Break, networking (coffee, tea)
11:10-11:50 am: Second session of talks

  • Abbie Clapp and Sara Chadwick (all UW-Madison) – Associations between Men’s Perceptions of Sociocultural Gender Status Threat and Perpetration of Sexual Coercion in Relationships.
  • Randy Lee (UW-Madison), Gizem Surenkok (Cornell University), Stephen Baum (UC Berkeley), Clayton Critcher (UC Berkeley), and Vivian Zayas (Cornell University) – The Consequences of Social Preferential Treatment.
  • Sofia Briones and Ashley E. Jordan (all UW-Madison) – Young Children’s Evaluations of Binary and Nonbinary Identities.
  • Mariana Nozela Prado (UW-Madison) – Sexual Harassment Severity and Gender Identity
  • Ananya Ganesh, Kaycie Barron, and Shamya Karumbaiah (all UW-Madison) – When Collaboration Analytics Leaves Multilingual Learners Behind: Data-Driven Analysis of Collaboration Skills in Modern Classrooms.

12:00 pm Lunch on the Memorial Union Terrace