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Ph.D. candidate Keitaro Okura won two awards from the American Sociological Association.

July 3, 2024
Keitaro Okura’s paper “Americans without Americanness: The U.S. National Hierarchy and Racialized Boundaries of Authentic Belonging” received an Honorable Mention for...

Professor Alka Menon wins the 2024 ASA Sociology Body and Embodiment’s Book Award for “Refashioning Race”

June 14, 2024
Professor Alka Menon’s book, Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards, received the 2024 Book Award from the Section on the Sociology of the...

Ramina Sotoudeh featured in Meet the FAS faculty:

May 30, 2024
Assistant Professor Ramina Sotoudeh is featured in the current newsletter of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The series “Meet the FAS faculty” provides a way for the Yale...

Professor Alka Menon was a Finalist for 4S’s Ludwik Fleck Prize for her book "Refashioning Race"

May 29, 2024
Alka Menon was a Finalist for the 2024 Ludwik Fleck Prize, awarded annually by the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) for an outstanding book in the area of the...

Yale Sociology Lecturer Alex Manning Quoted in New York Magazine Article

May 20, 2024
Alex Manning, Ph.D., a lecturer in the Yale Sociology Department, who teaches courses on racism, sports, families, and abolition, was quoted in a recent New York Magazine...

Yale Sociology Lecturer Alex Manning received the "Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award" from the African American Cultural Center

May 20, 2024
At the Yale Black Graduates’ Celebration Alex Manning was nominated and received the “Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award” from the African American Cultural Center (...

Sociology Professor Ángel Escamilla García featured in Yale FAS News

May 16, 2024
Assistant Professor of Sociology Escamilla García was featured in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Meet the FAS faculty.

Patrice D. Collins is the 2024 winner of the Yale Sociology department's 21st Century Dissertation Prize, for her dissertation 'Everybody is Locked Up': Families with Incarcerated Loved Ones.

May 14, 2024
Patrice Collins’ 2022 dissertation, ‘Everybody is Locked Up’: Families with Incarcerated Loved Ones, is an outstanding ethnographic study that renders and explains the ways...

Eric Martin Feltham is the 2024 winner of the Yale Sociology Department's Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize, for his dissertation "Cognizing Social Networks"

May 14, 2024
Social network analysis has provided foundational insights into the nature of human sociality and has been used to understand and improve diverse policy outcomes.  A common...

Yale faculty member Nicholas A. Christakis elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences

May 13, 2024
Nicholas A. Christakis was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of  distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The academy,...