March 2024 News

Philip Gorski Quoted in NYTimes on New House Speaker

Thu, 11/02/2023
Philip Gorski, Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Yale Sociology Department was quoted in the New York Times in a guest essay on the new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson entitled ‘The Embodiment of White Christian Nationalism in a Tailored Suit’. According to Gorski Read more...

Professor Rene Almeling's research featured in Wall Street Journal

Thu, 11/02/2023
Professor Rene Almeling’s research on eggs and sperm is profiled in a recent Wall Street Journal article on in vitro gametogenesis. You can read the full story here: What If Men Could Make Their Own Egg Cells? - WSJ   Read more...

Graduate Student Anne Taylor wins 2023 British Sociological Association's Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence

Tue, 10/24/2023
Anne Taylor is the winner of the 2023 British Sociological Association’s Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence for her paper, “Audience Agency in Social Performance,” published last year in Cultural Sociology. Her paper was selected out of the 24 articles published in 2022 in the journal, Read more...

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...