July 2025 News

Visiting Lecturer Anjanette Chan Tack will be joining the Sociology Department for the Spring 2022 semester

Wed, 10/13/2021
On January 1, 2022, Anjanette Chan Tack will be joining the  Sociology Department for the Spring 2022 semester as a Visiting Lecturer through Yale’s Presidential Visiting Fellowship Program. Read more...

Faculty Award

Wed, 09/22/2021
Emma Zang has been awarded a 2 year NIH R21 award ($472,884) to apply her Bayesian trajectory models to study the linked health trajectories of persons with cognitive impairment and their caregivers. Read more...

Jason Contino Receives the 2021 Mildred Priest Frank Award

Fri, 05/21/2021
The Sociology Department is happy to announce that Jason Contino is the 2021 Winner of the Mildred Priest Frank Award recognizing outstanding scholarship and service among graduating senior sociology majors. Jason’s thesis is titled, “Ontological (Narco)Politicking: How Addiction Treatment Read more...

Tony Cheng Awarded the 2021 21st Century Prize

Fri, 05/21/2021
The 2021 21st Century Dissertation Prize in the Department of Sociology has been awarded to Dr. Tony Cheng. His dissertation is titled “Policing and the Illusion of Public Input.” The award is given to a sociology graduate student whose dissertation contributes to public policy or the public Read more...

Thomas Lyttelton Receives the 2021 Marvin B. Sussman Award

Fri, 05/21/2021
The 2021 Marvin B. Sussman Best Dissertation Award in the Department of Sociology has been awarded to Dr. Thomas Lyttelton. The title of his dissertation is Work, Sociability, And Inequality. In a quantitative analysis of time use data, Lyttelton shows how mundane sociability with colleagues varies Read more...

Graduate Student Margaret Traeger Publishes in PNAS

Tue, 03/10/2020
Margaret Traeger’s article, “Vulnerable Robots Positively Shape Human Conversational Dynamics in a Human-Robot Team” was recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The article can be found here. The Yale Office of Public Affairs & Communications press release Read more...

Sociology Staff Receive 2019 Linda K. Lorimer Award

Thu, 11/14/2019
On November 13th President Salovey and Linda K. Lorimer presented Sociology staff Wyatt Israel, Mark McKnight, Petergaye Murray, Rennie Negron, Liza Nicoll, and School of Medicine staff Samy Galvez a Linda K. Lorimer Award.  The team conducted a large-scale randomized control trial in Honduras to Read more...

The Sociology Department regrets the loss of Charles Perrow

Wed, 11/13/2019
The Sociology Department regrets the loss of Charles Perrow. ‘Chick’ was born in 1925 and gained his PhD from Berkeley in 1960. He joined Yale in 1981 and became Emeritus at Yale in 2000. After his official retirement Chick remained an active member of our departmental community for many years. Read more...

Sociology Chair Grace Kao's work cited in Washington Post Article about new film, "Crazy Rich Asians"

Mon, 08/06/2018
The film “Crazy Rich Asians,” opening in theaters this month, may help to challenge stereotypes about Asian American men as unattractive, according to an article published on August 3, 2018 in the Washington Post. The article cites Grace Kao’s collaborative work (with Kelly Stamper Balistreri Read more...

Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis named Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science

Mon, 07/30/2018
The Sociology Department is pleased to announced that Nicholas A. Christakis was just named as Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. This is the highest honor that Yale bestows on a faculty member. Congratulations, Nicholas! To view the Yale News article, click here. Read more...