Department News

December 15, 2014
Professor Frederick Wherry is co-editor of a new book series with Jennifer Lena (Teachers College Columbia University) and Greta Hsu (University of California, Davis) at...
December 4, 2014
Research by Professors Julia Adams (Yale) and Hannah Brückner (NYU-Abu Dhabi) on science, gender, and Wikipedia was discussed at NBC News today. Professor Adams was quoted in...
November 30, 2014
The Behavioral Economics Program at the Russell Sage Foundation has awarded a research grant to Sociology Professors Frederick Wherry (Yale), Kristin Seefeldt (University of...
November 21, 2014
Graduate Student Angela Onwuachi-Willig has been selected to receive the Association of American Law Schools Minority Groups Section’s highest honor for senior faculty...
October 21, 2014
Graduate student Thomas Crosbie has accepted a position as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Center for Research on Military Organization in the Sociology Department of the...
October 18, 2014
Graduate student Elizabeth Roberto has been awarded the 2014 James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Studying Complex Systems for her research on the...
October 13, 2014
This Tuesday (October 14) we look forward to hosting distinguished scholar Kristin Luker, who will deliver a talk titled “Abortion, Contraception, and the Neoliberal Moment...
October 9, 2014
Professor Andrew Papachristos was on the National Public Radio daily program Morning Edition today in a segment covering his research on networks and gun violence in Chicago...
October 8, 2014
Professor Rene Almeling was a guest on New York City Public Radio’s Brian Lehrer Show last week. She took calls from listeners about the recent “wrongful birth” lawsuit...
September 27, 2014
Grad student Michael Sierra-Arévalo was interviewed by Newsweek for a new piece on American gun deaths. In it, he talks about the difficulties researchers face when they try...