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...
Shirado and Christakis Published in Nature
Mon, 05/22/2017
Graduate student Hirokazu Shirado and Professor Nicholas Christakis recently published an article entitled “Locally noisy autonomous agents improve global human coordination in network experiments” in Nature. The study showed that introducing robotic software agents into human co-ordination gamesRead more...
Yale PhD Elizabeth Roberto recently won the Sussman Award for 2017 for her dissertation:
Sun, 05/21/2017
‘The Boundaries of Spatial Inequality: Three Essays on the Measurement and Analysis of Residential Segregation.’ The Sussman Award is given to the graduate student whose dissertation in the past two years is judged to be the most outstanding. Liz introduces a new index for measuring segregation andRead more...
Sociology Department Alumna Sorcha Brophy-Warren recently had her work featured in an NPR segment.
Wed, 04/19/2017
The segment discusses the return of Brio, a magazine marketed to Christian teenage girls, as an alternative to Seventeen or Teen Vogue. At the bottom of the article, Brophy-Warren opines on how Brio will slot itself into the media landscape of 2017 after its absence. Previously, she had presentedRead more...
Christakis elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Tue, 04/18/2017
Professor Nicholas Christakis has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Said Professor Christakis of the honor: “I am grateful to my colleagues for inviting me to join this august group. For me, one of the greatest joys in life is the thrill of scientific discovery. The AAASRead more...
Professor Philip Gorski was recently profiled on Charlie Rose
Fri, 04/14/2017
Professor Philip Gorski was recently profiled on Charlie Rose for his new book American Covenant. In the interview, Gorski describes the vital center of Civil Religion in American society as set against both Religious Nationalism and Radical Secularism. Gorski and Rose discuss a kind of positiveRead more...
Gorski Profiled in the Atlantic
Tue, 04/11/2017
Professor Philip Gorski was recently interviewed in The Atlantic about his new book, American Covenant. In the interview Gorski charts out the concept of civil religion in America. He sees it as something deeply embedded in the origins of the national narrative and as offering common ground outsideRead more...
