June 2018 News
William McMillan obtained his PhD from Yale Sociology in May 2018. He is departing for the University of Connecticut to be a Humility and Conviction in Public Life Residential Fellow. His dissertation, “Cosmopolitan Calvinists: Global Religion in A Secular Age,” explored the relationship between
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Recent graduate Wei Luo, PhD ‘17, has been appointed as a postdoctoral scholar in Sociology at Stanford University. During the appointment, Luo will be involved in the Civic Life of Cities project at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and also engaged in her personal research
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig received her PhD from Yale’s Departments of Sociology and African-American Studies in May 2017. Entitled, “The Trauma of Till and Trayvon,” her thesis considered themes relating to the politics of representation, race, community, violence, and inequality. It developed
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One of our 2018 graduates, Elisabeth Becker, will be taking up a postdoc with the Religion & Its Publics project at the University of Virginia. Funded by the Templeton Foundation, this initiative seeks to bridge the gap between the academic study of religion and public conversations about
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