October 2025 News
Assistant Professor Alka Menon’s research on evolving beauty standards and their ramifications for social inequality was highlighted in two recent podcast episodes, including in an episode titled “The Marvels of Madam C.J. Walker Part 2” BBC’s History’s Heroes Podcast, where she was in
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Along with bioethicist Lisa Campo-Engelstein and ob-gyn Brian T. Nguyen, Yale sociology professor Rene Almeling has co-edited a new book titled Seminal: On Sperm Health Politics (New York University Press 2025). They assembled experts from across the social sciences, humanities, law, and medicine
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Yale Sociology PhD candidate Muhammad Amasha’s paper “Theorizing Dilemmas through Intellectuals’ Politics” received an Honorable Mention from the 2025 Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award of the American Sociological Association’s Comparative Historical Sociology section.
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We are excited to announce that PhD Candidate Adriana Ceron receives the ASA DDRIG and the RSF Dissertation Grants. Both Grants will support her dissertation which examines how deported Salvadoran migrants, who either reside in El Salvador or who have reentered the U.S., experience life after
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