March 2023 News

Dr. Elijah Anderson, Yale’s Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies and winner of the 2021 Stockholm Prize for Criminology, was recently interviewed by Jelani Cobb, New Yorker writer, and dean of the Columbia Journalism School.

Wed, 03/29/2023

Dr. Elijah Anderson, Yale’s Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies and winner of the 2021 Stockholm Award for Criminology, was recently interviewed by Jelani Cobb, New Yorker writer, and dean of the Columbia Journalism School. The interview is entitled “The Fault Lines of Read more...

Intensive Sociology Seniors Celebrate at the Yale masquerade ball.

Fri, 03/17/2023

Sociology Welcomes Ángel A. Escamilla García

Wed, 03/01/2023

Yale Sociology is pleased to welcome new hire Ángel Escamilla García. Angel will be an Assistant Professor starting July 1, 2023. His research broadly focuses on how vulnerable migrants like youth, indigenous people, and LGTBQ+ individuals experience and react to the violence they face during Read more...

Profesor Rene Almeling and Graduate Student Adora Svitak Publish Piece on Abortion Access in the San Francisco Chronicle

Tue, 12/13/2022

Read the full piece, titled “There’s still reason to be worried about a national abortion ban,” at this link, or email rene.almeling@yale.edu for a PDF. Read more...

Yale Sterling Professor Elijah Anderson to Keynote Paris Conference on “Rethinking Race,” featuring his recent book, Black in White Space

Tue, 12/06/2022

Yale Sterling Professor Elijah Anderson will be the keynote speaker at the at the University of Chicago Center in Paris, December 13, 2022 Rethinking Race, the Colonial and the Postcolonial in Contemporary France Read more...

Associate Professor Jonathan Wyrtzen’s latest book, Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2022) wins award.

Thu, 12/01/2022

Associate Professor Jonathan Wyrtzen’s latest book, Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2022) was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Read more...

Undergrad news

Mon, 11/07/2022

Research by Emma Zang on racial disparities in number of children women have, highlighted in The Hill.

Fri, 10/28/2022

The Hill reported a story on research led by Emma Zang, on how race and education intersect to affect how many children women have. The study published in the journal Population Studies found that Black college-educated women have fewer children on average than white or Hispanic college-educated Read more...

Professor Rene Almeling's book GUYnecology featured at ASA

Tue, 10/04/2022

Professor Rene Almeling’s latest book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health (University of California Press, 2020) was one of fourteen books chosen for a Book Forum session at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in Los Angeles last month Read more...

Mon, 09/19/2022