Yale Professor of Sociology Jeffrey Alexander Receives Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Theory Award
Sat, 07/21/2018
The Department of Sociology is proud to announce that Jeffrey C. Alexander is the 2018 Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Theory from the International Sociological Association Research Committee 16 (ISA RC16) on Sociological Theory. According to their website, “This award isRead more...
Graduate Student Patrice Collins Receives Two Yale Fellowships and the DESRA Award
Fri, 07/20/2018
Graduate student Patrice Collins has been awarded the Yale University President’s Public Service Fellowship (PPSF), Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Emerging Scholar Award (DESRA), and Dwight Hall Center for Public Service and Social Justice at Yale Graduate Service Fellowship (GSFRead more...
2018 Mildred Priest Frank Award Winner is Josh Feng
Thu, 07/19/2018
The Sociology Department is happy to announce that Josh Feng is the 2018 Winner of the Mildred Priest Frank Award for the best B.A. Thesis. Josh’s thesis was titled, “Bite-Sized Culture: Culinary Performance, Urban Space and Constructions of Novelty in Taipei’s Tonghua (通化) Night Market.”Read more...
CCS Postdoctoral Fellow Elisabeth Becker Publishes Impact Report of Muslim Contributions to New York City
Wed, 07/18/2018
Please check out the CCS website for links to the Muslims for American Progress (MAP) Report, and a timely Huffington Post article quoting Becker which covers the release of this in-depth report:
https://ccs.yale.edu/news/elisabeth-becker-publishes-impact-report-muslim-contributions-new-york-city
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PhD Candidate Jean-Baptiste Gallopin Receives the Fox Fellowship and Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship
Fri, 07/13/2018
Jean-Baptiste Gallopin was awarded the Fox Fellowship and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship. The Fox Fellowship will provide support for an exchange at the Freie Universitat in Berlin, where Jean-Baptiste will do archival, comparative work on the behavior of the East GermanRead more...
New Chair for Sociology Department: Grace Kao
Wed, 07/11/2018
We are happy to announce that as of July 1, 2018, the new Chair of the Sociology Department is Grace Kao. An expert on race, migration, and education Kao arrived at Yale from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. She will be the first person of color to Chair our Department. In addition toRead more...
Department Graduates Win ASA Paper Prizes
Thu, 07/05/2018
Recent Departmental graduates Shai Dromi (PhD 2016) and Andrew Cohen (PhD 2017) have been awarded the 2018 ASA Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section’s Outstanding Published Article Award for “Advertising Morality: Maintaining moral worth in a stigmatized profession.” The articleRead more...
Recent Graduate William McMillan moves to the University of Connecticut
Thu, 06/28/2018
William McMillan obtained his PhD from Yale Sociology in May 2018. He is departing for the University of Connecticut to be a Humility and Conviction in Public Life Residential Fellow. His dissertation, “Cosmopolitan Calvinists: Global Religion in A Secular Age,” explored the relationship betweenRead more...
2017 PhD Wei Luo off to Stanford
Mon, 06/25/2018
Recent graduate Wei Luo, PhD ‘17, has been appointed as a postdoctoral scholar in Sociology at Stanford University. During the appointment, Luo will be involved in the Civic Life of Cities project at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and also engaged in her personal researchRead more...
Recent PhD Angela Onwuachi-Willig to be Dean of Boston University School of Law
Fri, 06/22/2018
Angela Onwuachi-Willig received her PhD from Yale’s Departments of Sociology and African-American Studies in May 2017. Entitled, “The Trauma of Till and Trayvon,” her thesis considered themes relating to the politics of representation, race, community, violence, and inequality. It developedRead more...
