Department News

April 25, 2023
Jeff Alexander, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology makes several appearances - as an “authority on celebrity icons” - in the new, two...
April 13, 2023
Ángel Escamilla García garnered two awards from the Latin American Studies Association. He received the best dissertation award for the Mexico Section for his dissertation, ...
April 6, 2023
Tech Explorist cites a study led by Yale sociologist Daniel Karell, that increased social media activity on “hard-right” platforms, which purport to represent viewpoints not...
March 29, 2023
Dr. Elijah Anderson, Yale’s Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies and winner of the 2021 Stockholm Prize for Criminology, was recently interviewed...
March 1, 2023
Yale Sociology is pleased to welcome new hire Ángel Escamilla García.  Angel will be an Assistant Professor starting July 1, 2023.  His research broadly focuses on how...
December 13, 2022
Read the full piece, titled “There’s still reason to be worried about a national abortion ban,” at this link, or email rene.alm...
November 7, 2022
October 28, 2022
The Hill reported a story on research led by Emma Zang,  on how race and education intersect to affect how many children women have.  The study published in the journal...
October 4, 2022
Professor Rene Almeling’s latest book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health (University of California Press, 2020) was one of fourteen...
August 9, 2022
The following courses have been added to the Sociology department course list.   Politics and Culture; SOCY 205; Yasmur Karakaya Sports and Society;  SOCY 103; Alex Manning...