Alumni

May 5, 2013
    Nancy Davis and Rob Robinson’s (Yale Soc Ph.D) book, Claiming Society for God: Religious Movements and Social Welfare in Egypt, Israel, Italy, and the United States (...
NYU-Abu-Dhabi
March 11, 2013
  In the coming academic year, Andrew Udelsman (Yale ‘10) will be an NYU-Abu Dhabi Global Academic Fellow. He departs for Abu Dhabi in August 2013. Best of luck, Andrew!
The Twittersphere's Pick for Best Picture
February 22, 2013
  Elizabeth Butler Breese, (Yale Sociology PhD, 2012), has written for the Huffington Post blog, a piece on the 2012 Oscar nominees for Best Picture, as analyzed from the...
August 10, 2012
Roy S. Bryce-Laporte, a sociologist who led one of the nation’s first African-American studies departments here at Yale in 1969, died on July 31 in Sykesville, Md. He was 78...
June 8, 2012
Anthony Spires has won the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award from the Political Sociology Section of the ASA, for his article, Contingent Symbiosis and Civil...
April 30, 2012
Yale Sociology has created a new award, The 21st Century Dissertation Prize, given from time to time, at the discretion of the department, to a distinguished sociology...
March 9, 2012
Dominik Bartmanski (PhD ‘11) has been awarded the Junior Theorist Prize of the International Sociological Association (R16: Sociological Theory) for his article “How to...
October 2, 2011
Isaac Ariail Reed, Yale Ph.D. 2007, has just published Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences with The University of Chicago Press....
August 27, 2011
Jeffrey Swanson, (Yale Sociology PhD, 1985), and Marvin Swartz, MD, have been selected as joint recipients of the 2011 Carl Taube Award, an honor given by the Mental Health...
April 27, 2011
Dorceta E. Taylor (Yale PhD ’91) is the winner of the 2010 Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American...