May 2024 News
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 community to discover the work and perspectives of recent faculty hires.
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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 science and technology studies. The Fleck Prize Committee had this to say about Menon’s book, Refashioning Race: How Global
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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 article to discuss Maggie Hagerman’s new book, Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump’s
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At the Yale Black Graduates’ Celebration Alex Manning was nominated and received the “Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award” from the African American Cultural Center (The House) (along with Prof Elizabeth Hinton—history/Af-Am).
According to the Center “This award is presented to instructors
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Assistant Professor of Sociology Escamilla García was featured in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Meet the FAS faculty.
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Patrice Collins’ 2022 dissertation, ‘Everybody is Locked Up’: Families with Incarcerated Loved Ones, is an outstanding ethnographic study that renders and explains the ways in which ordinary, everyday policing effectively criminalizes a significant portion of the impoverished local Black community
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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 goal of research in this area has been to construct an accurate measure of the social network by ascertaining how everyone in
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Nicholas A. Christakis was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The academy, established by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 was charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters
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