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Sociology Holiday Party 2024

December 6, 2024
Image by Danny Mollericona Alfaro

Grace Kao's Course on K-pop the Subject of the Korea Herald

November 20, 2024
“Why are Yale students taking K-pop classes?” The Korea Herald presented an article investigating this question examining Sociology Professor Grace Kao’s course “Race...

Prof. Ángel Escamilla García, an expert on Latin American Migration Offers his Thoughts on Trump's Immigration Plans

November 6, 2024
https://thefulcrum.us/governance-legislation/trumps-plan-to-deport-milli…

Professor Grace Kao interviewed on Australian radio.

October 24, 2024
Professor Grace Kao was featured in an 18-minute-long interview on ABC (Australia)’s afternoon radio program “The Drawing Room.” The segment is titled “From Stars and Stripes...

Assistant Professor of Sociology Daniel Karell wins ASA Section Award

August 14, 2024
Yale Sociology Assistant Professor Daniel Karell won the American Sociological Association  Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements’ Distinguished Contribution to...

'22 PhD graduate, Alex DiBranco Interviewed by ISPS about the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS)

August 5, 2024
In 2019, while a Yale Sociology Ph.D. candidate, Alex DiBranco (‘22) founded the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS), comprised of “a team of predominantly...

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...