As current and future Chairs of this Department we have received many expressions of dismay and concern over recent events on campus. These have come from students and faculty alike. Sociological research has repeatedly shown that indignities are commonly experienced in everyday life by visibleRead more...
Ronald Kwon Appointed Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer
Fri, 05/11/2018
The Department of Sociology and the Center for Empirical Research on Stratification & Inequality (CERSI) is delighted to announce that Ronald Kwon will be joining us as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer starting Fall 2018. Ronald is due to receive his PhD in Sociology from the University ofRead more...
Grace Kao next Chair of Sociology
Fri, 05/04/2018
After a rigorous selection process involving input from faculty and consultations with the FAS Dean’s Office the Sociology Department is delighted to announce that Grace Kao will be the next Chair of Sociology. Her appointment starts July 1. Phil Smith, who has been Chair for the past threeRead more...
Rasit Awarded DAAD Research Grant
Tue, 04/24/2018
Graduate student Huseyin Rasit has been awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research Grant for his PhD research. Huseyin’s dissertation, entitled “State-Seeking, Ethnicity, and Religion: Emergent Political Formations in the 21st-Century Middle East,” examines competing state/society-Read more...
CCS Visitor Florian Stoll hosts Book Workshop on Social Milieus in Kenya's "Middle-Class"
Tue, 08/22/2017
Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS) visiting scholar Florian Stoll has organized a workshop on August 22nd and 23rd with guests from Africa, Europe and America to discuss his planned publication on sociocultural diverse milieus (lifestyle groups) in Kenya’s “middle-class”.
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Alumnus Shai M. Dromi received Honorable Mention for the Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award
Thu, 07/06/2017
Shai M. Dromi received an honorable mention from the ASA Comparative-Historical Section’s 2017 Theda Skocpol Best Dissertation Award committee. Shai’s project is titled The Religious Roots of Transnational Relief: Calvinism, Humanitarianism, and the Genesis of Social Fields. It examines theRead more...
Kao ASA Vice-President Elect
Thu, 07/06/2017
We are delighted to announce that faculty member Professor Grace Kao has been elected to be Vice-President Elect of the American Sociological Association (http://www.asanet.org/news-events/asa-news/results-2017-asa-election). Said Grace: “I am excited to serve the American Sociological AssociationRead more...
Kao Wins ASA Section on Asia and Asian America Contribution to the Field Award for 2017
Mon, 06/26/2017
Professor Grace Kao has won the American Sociological Association’s Section on Asia and Asian America Contribution to the Field Award for 2017. Kao was unanimously selected for the award with the selection committee citing her “illustrious accomplishments in the areas of research, teaching,Read more...
New ISPS Policy Fellows Announced
Mon, 06/26/2017
Sociology graduate students Sarah Brothers, Alex DiBranco, and Tina Law have been announced as 2017-2018 Graduate Policy Fellows at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies, where they will conduct policy-relevant projects on domestic issues. Sarah Brothers’ ISPS research examines howRead more...
Stabler Elected Student Representative to ASA Section Council
Mon, 06/26/2017
Graduate student Sam Stabler was elected to the American Sociological Association’s section on Altruism Morality and Social Solidarity’s council. There he will serve as a student representative. Stabler commented “My dissertation focuses on the links between religion and theRead more...
