July 2025 News

Yale News Interviews Alka Menon on new book Refashioning Race

Thu, 10/05/2023

In an interview, Yale sociologist Alka Menon discusses her new book, which offers an international perspective on how plastic surgeons respond to — and influence — racialized standards of beauty. Read more...

Yale News reports on Rene Almeling's research on Metaphors for Human Fertilization

Thu, 10/05/2023

Metaphors for human fertilization are evolving, study shows Read more...

Yale's Rourke O'Brien won the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science's 2023 Stephanie Robert Mentoring Award

Thu, 09/28/2023

More information abaout IAPHS Award Winners. Read more...

Recent PhD Graduate Eric Feltham Publishes in Nature Human Behaviour

Wed, 09/27/2023

Eric Feltham’s article (with co-authors Laura Forastiere, Marcus Alexander, and Nicholas Christakis), “Mass gatherings for political expression had no discernible association with the local course of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA in 2020 and 2021” was recently published in Nature Human Behaviour Read more...

Sociology PhD Candidate Anne Taylor Nominated for British Sociological Association's SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence

Tue, 09/05/2023

Yale Sociology PhD candidate Anne Taylor was nominated for the 2023 British Sociological Association (BSA) SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence. The prize is an annual award given to one paper in each of the BSA’s journals. Anne’s article appeared in Cultural Sociology. More Read more...

Yale Sociology Ph.D. candidate Anne Marie Champagne has coedited a volume on Interpreting the Body, recently published in Bristol University Press Series: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology

Thu, 08/10/2023

Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter, coedited by Yale sociology doctoral candidate and CCS junior fellow Anne Marie Champagne and Asia Friedman (University of Delaware), is out now from Bristol University Press’s Interpretive Lenses in Sociology series. The volume, which explores Read more...

Jonathan Wyrtzen's Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Barrington Moore Book Award

Tue, 08/08/2023

Jonathan Wyrtzen’s Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Barrington Moore Book Award for the best book in Comparative and Historical Sociology, selected by the Comparative and Historical Read more...

The Korea Times (the largest English language newspaper in Korea) published an article about Grace Kao's research on and teaching of K-Pop

Wed, 06/14/2023

Yale professor talks about changes brought by K-pop Read more...

Yale sociology professor visits Korea to discuss the impact of K-pop on Asian American identity

Mon, 06/12/2023

Grace Kao, the IBM Professor of Sociology and Professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration at Yale, traveled to South Korea to present her research at several leading Korean academic institutions on the sociology of music, in particular K-pop and the significance its global popularity holds for Asian Read more...

Yale Sociology Professor Grace Kao quoted in CNN article on race and ethnicity