April 2023 News

Sociology Welcomes Ramina Sotoudeh

Fri, 04/28/2023
We are pleased to welcome Ramina Sotoudeh. She will be joining us as an Assistant Professor of Sociology with a secondary appointment in Statistics & Data Science, on July 1, 2023. Ramina works on topics related to sociogenomics, culture, health and inequality. What unites these different lines Read more...

Philip V. McHarris Awarded 21st Century Dissertation Prize

Fri, 04/28/2023
It is our pleasure to announce that Philip V. McHarris has been awarded 21st Century Dissertation Prize.   Philip McHarris’ dissertation, High Rise: Poverty, Policing, and Crisis in American Public Housing, has been awarded the Yale Sociology department’s 21st Century Dissertation Prize. The award Read more...

Hüseyin Raşit Wins 2023 Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize

Thu, 04/27/2023
Hüseyin Raşit’s Ph.D. thesis, Contending Futures in the 21st-Century Middle East: Ideology and the Emergent Political Formations of ISIS, Kurdistan-Iraq and Kurdistan-Syria, has been awarded the Sociology department’s 2023 Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize. The prize has been offered annually Read more...

Jeffrey Alexander on Hulu

Tue, 04/25/2023
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-part HULU documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields. The film has been getting a lot of media attention since its debut in Read more...

Concentration in Data and Society

Tue, 04/18/2023
Students in the Data and Society concentration gain a broad understanding of the methods used to analyze systematic features of social behavior and the wide range of possible sources that can be used to research social patterns. This concentration focuses on methods of analysis, such as social Read more...

New Faculty member Ángel Escamilla García garnered two awards from the Latin American Studies Association.

Thu, 04/13/2023
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, Knowledge, Place, and Experience in the Migrant Journey: How Central American Migrant Youth Negotiate Violence in Mexico. He Read more...

Social media activity on hard-right platforms contributes to political unrest.

Thu, 04/06/2023
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 welcome on “mainstream” platforms, contributes to rightwing civil unrest in the United States. A study connects hard-right Read more...

Philip S. Gorski, the Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Yale University in the news.

Thu, 04/06/2023
Philip S. Gorski, the Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Yale University and co-author of the 2022 book “The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, was quoted in The Washington Post on the possible harm of Trump Read more...