Congratulations to postdoc Dr. Michael DeLand, who has won the Mel Pollner Award in Ethnomethodology. Dr. DeLand was honored with the $1,000 prize in recognition of his essay “Basketball in the Key of Law: The Significance of Disputing in Pick-Up Basketball,” published in a 2013 edition of theRead more...
Legewie Joins Department, Strengthening Quantitative Program
Sat, 04/09/2016
We are delighted to announce that Joscha Legewie will be joining our department from July 1 as an Assistant Professor of Sociology. Legewie gained his PhD in sociology from Columbia University in 2013 and, since 2014, has been Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology at New York University.Read more...
Erikson Elected to SASE Executive Council
Fri, 04/08/2016
Professor Emily Erikson has been elected to serve on the Executive Council of the SASE (the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics). SASE is an international, inter-disciplinary organization focused on the emerging meta-discipline of socio-economics. The Executive Council is SASE’sRead more...
Mooney to join Princeton Theological Seminary
Thu, 03/31/2016
Dr. Margarita Mooney has been working in our department since 2013 as an Associate Research Scientist and the Co-Principal Investigator on Professor Philip S. Gorski’s $2.1 million John Templeton Foundation-funded project on “Critical Realism and Human Personhood”. Now she is set to join Read more...
UCLA's Treiman Joins as Visiting Professor
Wed, 03/02/2016
World-renowned stratification scholar Donald Treiman, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, UCLA Sociology, will join our department as a Visiting Professor for the Fall 2016 semester. Professor Treiman’s research covers an array of work on inequality, social mobility, and migration in aRead more...
Shirado Awarded Seed Grant for Research
Wed, 03/02/2016
Graduate student Hirokazu Shirado has been chosen as the National Institute for Social Science’s 2016 Seed Grant Recipient. The prestigious award is for his project “Helping Human Groups to Overcome Social Traps with Autonomous Agents.” He is working with Professor Nicholas A. Christakis inRead more...
Grieger Awarded $144,000 Grant for Inequality Research
Thu, 02/18/2016
Assistant Professor Lloyd Grieger has been awarded a grant worth $143,578 from the Russell Sage Foundation to support research into social inequality. His project, entitled “How Accessible is the Top? The Changing Rigidity of High Incomes and Earnings”, is a collaboration with Professor FabianRead more...
Plys Published in International Journal of Comparative Sociology
Thu, 02/18/2016
Graduate student Kristin Plys has a new publication in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology this month. Her article, ”Worker self-management in the Third World, 1952–1979,” examines major cases of self-management of firms during the post-war era and highlights the varied historicalRead more...
Almeling Writes in Boston Globe on CDC Alcohol Advisory
Wed, 02/17/2016
Along with Professor Sarah Richardson of Harvard University, Professor Rene Almeling recently published an OpEd in the Boston Globe criticizing the CDC for advising all young women to avoid alcohol. They write, “The CDC’s overly broad advisory damages its credibility as a source of clear, balancedRead more...
Benefits of Majoring in Sociology at Yale Explained in New Video
Wed, 01/27/2016
The reasons to select the Yale Sociology Major are highlighted in a new film. The ten-minute video, entitled Sociology at Yale: The Choice Explained, is featured on Yale’s official YouTube channel and can be found with any simple YouTube search. It includes interviews with current Majors whoRead more...
