October 2025 News

Isabela Alvarado Wins the 2025 Mildred Priest Frank Memorial Prize

Mon, 05/05/2025
Isabela Alvarado’s senior thesis “Careers in Translation: Occupational Downgrading and Identity Reconstruction Among Venezuelan Immigrants in the United States” was selected to receive the 2025 Mildred Priest Frank Memorial Prize.  Isabela’s thesis explores how occupational downgrading Read more...

Professor Emerita Deborah Davis Published a New Book

Tue, 04/29/2025
Professor Emerita Deborah Davis published a new book.  Chinese Encounters with America tells the stories of twelve women and men whose American experiences transformed their lives and influenced China’s trajectory, with a particular focus on the period after Beijing and Washington established Read more...

Carlo Sariego Published Two Articles in Journals: Signs and Feminist Theory!

Mon, 04/28/2025
Graduate student Carlo Sariego published two articles recently.  The first article “Birth Rights and Wrongs: Reproductive Outsiders in Azar v. Garza and Madrigal v. Quilligan” was published in Signs:  Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Volume 50, Number 2).  It can be found here.  The second Read more...

PhD Students Jason Wong and Siyao Lu Published Article in The Gerontologist

Tue, 03/25/2025
Yale Sociology PhD Students Jason Wong and Siyao Lu published “A Novel Time Use Approach on Daily Active Engagement with Life: The Intersectionality of Race and Gender” in The Gerontologist, Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2025.   Read more...

Sociology Holiday Party 2024

Fri, 12/06/2024
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Grace Kao's Course on K-pop the Subject of the Korea Herald

Wed, 11/20/2024
“Why are Yale students taking K-pop classes?” The Korea Herald presented an article investigating this question examining Sociology Professor Grace Kao’s course “Race and Place in British New Wave, K-Pop and Beyond”.  According to Professor Kao the course explores how popular music moves Read more...

Prof. Ángel Escamilla García, an expert on Latin American Migration Offers his Thoughts on Trump's Immigration Plans

Wed, 11/06/2024
https://thefulcrum.us/governance-legislation/trumps-plan-to-deport-milli… Read more...

Professor Grace Kao interviewed on Australian radio.

Thu, 10/24/2024
Professor Grace Kao was featured in an 18-minute-long interview on ABC (Australia)’s afternoon radio program “The Drawing Room.” The segment is titled “From Stars and Stripes to K-Pop Heights.”    https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/drawingroom/from-stars-and-stripes-to-k-pop-heights/104514036 Read more...

Assistant Professor of Sociology Daniel Karell wins ASA Section Award

Wed, 08/14/2024
Yale Sociology Assistant Professor Daniel Karell won the American Sociological Association  Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements’ Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award for the article Karell, D., Linke, A., Holland, E., & Hendrickson, E. (2023). “Born for a Read more...

'22 PhD graduate, Alex DiBranco Interviewed by ISPS about the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS)

Mon, 08/05/2024
In 2019, while a Yale Sociology Ph.D. candidate, Alex DiBranco (‘22) founded the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS), comprised of “a team of predominantly women scholars [who] believe that women must be respected leaders in responding to an ideology threatening our own lives.” As the Read more...