Debs Takes Postdoc Role in Yale Education Studies Program
Tue, 06/07/2016
PhD student Mira Debs has been appointed as the first post-doctoral fellow in Yale’s new Education Studies program. The year-long postdoc, beginning in January 2017, will allow Debs to continue teaching education courses in the Education Studies program and in Yale’s Department ofRead more...
Farrell Honored With ASA Section Book Award
Mon, 06/06/2016
Justin Farrell, Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, with a secondary appointment in our department, has won the ASA’s Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section’s 2016 Outstanding Published Book Award for his work ‘TheRead more...
Alumnus Schnettler Appointed Professor at Oldenburg
Wed, 06/01/2016
Recent PhD graduate and CIQLE fellow Sebastian Schnettler ’10 has been tenured as full professor of social research methods at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, in Germany. Prior to joining the faculty there, Schnettler worked as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz andRead more...
Yale College Teaching Prize for Lloyd Grieger
Mon, 05/16/2016
Lloyd Grieger, assistant professor of sociology and a Jackson faculty member, has received the Lex Hixon ’63 Prize, one of Yale’s 2016 Faculty Teaching Prizes, for teaching excellence in the social sciences.
Professor Grieger is a social demographer whose research interests include poverty andRead more...
Postdoc Andersson set to join Baylor
Fri, 05/06/2016
Matt Andersson, a postdoctoral fellow, is to take up a position as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Baylor University in the fall. Much of Matt’s work focuses on socioeconomic inequalities in health and takes a life-course approach. During his time at Yale he has conducted research withRead more...
Dromi Appointed Lecturer at Harvard University
Sat, 04/30/2016
PhD candidate Shai Dromi has been appointed as a Lecturer on Sociology at Harvard University starting in Fall 2016. He will be teaching courses on philanthropy, humanitarian movements, and social trauma. Dromi’s dissertation, entitled “The Religious Origins of Transnational Relief: Calvinism,Read more...
Reynolds Awarded Horowitz Foundation Grant
Sat, 04/30/2016
Graduate student Celene Reynolds has been awarded a grant from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for her dissertation research, “From Unequal Play to Unwanted Contact: Title IX in American Universities, 1972-2014.” The Foundation aims to support social scientists in the early stages ofRead more...
Dromi Publishes in The Sociological Review
Sat, 04/30/2016
PhD candidate Shai Dromi has a new paper out in a special issue of The Sociological Review. The article is entitled ‘For good and country: nationalism and the diffusion of humanitarianism in the late nineteenth century’ and appears in the journal’s special edition, Fielding Transnationalism, Read more...
Sierra-Arévalo Publishes on Gun Violence Reduction Strategy
Tue, 04/19/2016
Graduate student Michael Sierra-Arévalo recently published a paper analyzing a gun violence reduction program piloted in New Haven, CT. Co-authored with Professor Andrew V. Papachristos and postdoc Dr. Yanick Charette, the piece in Crime & Delinquency examines the first phase of ProjectRead more...
Becker Honored by GSAS for Public Scholarship
Tue, 04/19/2016
Graduate student Elisabeth Becker has been selected by Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) to receive its 2016 Public Service Award in recognition of her work as a Public Scholar. Elisabeth’s doctoral research focuses on ethnographic research in European mosqueRead more...
