July 2018 News
The Sociology Department is pleased to announced that Nicholas A. Christakis was just named as Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. This is the highest honor that Yale bestows on a faculty member. Congratulations, Nicholas!
To view the Yale News article, click here.
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The Department of Sociology is proud to announce that Jeffrey C. Alexander is the 2018 Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Theory from the International Sociological Association Research Committee 16 (ISA RC16) on Sociological Theory. According to their website, “This award is
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Graduate student Patrice Collins has been awarded the Yale University President’s Public Service Fellowship (PPSF), Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Emerging Scholar Award (DESRA), and Dwight Hall Center for Public Service and Social Justice at Yale Graduate Service Fellowship (GSF
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The Sociology Department is happy to announce that Josh Feng is the 2018 Winner of the Mildred Priest Frank Award for the best B.A. Thesis. Josh’s thesis was titled, “Bite-Sized Culture: Culinary Performance, Urban Space and Constructions of Novelty in Taipei’s Tonghua (通化) Night Market.”
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Please check out the CCS website for links to the Muslims for American Progress (MAP) Report, and a timely Huffington Post article quoting Becker which covers the release of this in-depth report:
https://ccs.yale.edu/news/elisabeth-becker-publishes-impact-report-muslim-contributions-new-york-city
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Jean-Baptiste Gallopin was awarded the Fox Fellowship and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship. The Fox Fellowship will provide support for an exchange at the Freie Universitat in Berlin, where Jean-Baptiste will do archival, comparative work on the behavior of the East German
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We are happy to announce that as of July 1, 2018, the new Chair of the Sociology Department is Grace Kao. An expert on race, migration, and education Kao arrived at Yale from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. She will be the first person of color to Chair our Department. In addition to
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Recent Departmental graduates Shai Dromi (PhD 2016) and Andrew Cohen (PhD 2017) have been awarded the 2018 ASA Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section’s Outstanding Published Article Award for “Advertising Morality: Maintaining moral worth in a stigmatized profession.” The article
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