September 2016 News
Graduate Student Michael Sierra-Arévalo’s work on gun ownership was recently featured in The Trace. The research demonstrates how offenders use guns for protection when their perceptions of law enforcement legitimacy are low. Sierra-Arévalo’s work was published under the title ”Legal
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Professor Emily Erikson has received the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize from the Yale MacMillan Center. The prize honors the best first book from a member of the Yale ladder faculty. Erikson received the award for her book “Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company,
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Graduate Student Michael Sierra-Arévalo recently published an article in the journal Cogent Social Sciences detailing gun ownership among residents of marginalized urban communities. The Article entitled “Legal Cynicism and Protective Gun Ownership Among Active Offenders in Chicago,” shows how
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Alumnus Shai Dromi, won the Best Student Paper Award of the Global Transnational Section of the ASA for his paper “For good and country: nationalism and the diffusion of humanitarianism in the late nineteenth century”, which appeared in The Sociological Review. The paper provides crucial insights
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