September 2016 News

Sierra-Arévalo's Work Featured in The Trace

Fri, 09/30/2016
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 Read more...

Erikson Wins Gaddis Smith International Book Prize

Fri, 09/30/2016
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, Read more...

Sierra-Arévalo Publishes Legal Cynicism and Firearm Ownership

Fri, 09/23/2016
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 Read more...

Best Student Paper Award to Dromi

Thu, 09/08/2016
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 Read more...