Two New Appointments From The School of Management
Fri, 03/10/2017
The Department is excited to announce two new appointments. Julia DiBenigno is an Assistant Professor in Sociology, as a new courtesy appointment. She also holds an appointment as Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Yale School of Management, and received her PhD from MIT Sloan.Read more...
Patterson Gives Annual Hollingshead Lecture
Mon, 02/27/2017
Professor Orlando Patterson of Harvard University, delivered the annual Hollingshead Lecture to the Sociology Department on February 15th, 2017. In a talk entitled “Freedom, Slavery, and Identity in Renaissance Florence: The Faces of Leon Battista Alberti,” Patterson theorized several differentRead more...
Cheng Published in Law and Society
Mon, 02/27/2017
Graduate Student Tony Cheng recently published an article entitled “Violence Prevention and Targeting the Elusive Gang Member,” in Law & Society Review. The article identifies organizational mechanisms that motivate gang outreach workers to focus only on clients deemed “ready” for life changesRead more...
Grace Kao to Join Faculty
Wed, 02/01/2017
The Department is delighted to announce that Grace Kao will be joining the faculty. Professor Kao earned her PhD from the University of Chicago and she comes to us from the University of Pennsylvania. She has expertise in the fields of migration, ethnicity, Asian-American Studies, stratificationRead more...
Anderson Wins Eastern Sociological Society Merit Award
Wed, 02/01/2017
Yale Sociology Professor Elijah Anderson has won the Eastern Sociological Society’s Merit Award. The prestigious award for “distinguished scholars who have made outstanding contributions to the discipline, the profession, and the ESS,” per the Society’s website, places Anderson in theRead more...
Baumann Published in Sociology of Religion
Tue, 01/31/2017
Graduate Student Roger Baumann recently published an article entitled “Political Engagement Meets the Prosperity Gospel: African American Christian Zionism and Black Church Politics,” in Sociology of Religion. The article argues “for increased attention to theologically and politically conservativeRead more...
Bastomski to Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center
Mon, 01/16/2017
Sara Bastomski will join the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center as a Research Associate I in July 2017. The Urban Institute is a leading economic and social policy think tank in Washington, DC. In her new position, Sara plans to continue her research on urban violence and the criminalRead more...
Becker Publishes in Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Mon, 01/16/2017
Graduate student Elisabeth Becker has an article forthcoming in the leading academic journal for religious studies, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion entitled “Good mosque/bad mosque: Boundaries to belonging in contemporary Germany.” Drawing on over two years of field work at multipleRead more...
Wang To University of Virginia
Fri, 12/23/2016
Yale Sociology Alumna Yingyao Wang will be starting a tenure track assistant professor job in the Sociology Department of the University of Virginia in July 2017. Beginning her time at Yale in 2008, Yingyao graduated with her PhD from in December, 2015 with a dissertation entitled :
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Plys Accepts Job at Toronto Sociology Department
Mon, 12/19/2016
Graduate Student Kristin Plys who began study at Yale in 2009, will join the University of Toronto’s Department of Sociology in July 2017 as a tenure-track assistant professor. The sociology of department at the University of Toronto is rated the 19th best sociology department in the world by theRead more...
