Professor Emily Erikson has been honored by the American Sociological Association’s Section on Rationality and Society for her recent book, Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757. She was awarded the section’s 2016 James Coleman Award for OutstandingRead more...
Congratulations to our 2016 Graduates
Wed, 06/15/2016
Seven of our students graduated with PhD degrees at the University Commencement ceremony held on Monday, May 23. A reception was held in the department in their honor. Pictured here are new PhDs, from left to right, Timothy Malacarne, Gülay Türkmen-Dervişoğlu, Yingyao Wang, Shai Dromi, and Jin SuRead more...
McHarris Publishes in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Wed, 06/15/2016
Graduate student Philip McHarris has co-authored a paper in the journal Sociology of Race and Ethnicity with Robert Vargas (Notre Dame). The article, published this month, is entitled “Race and State in City Police Spending Growth 1980 to 2010“ and tries to identify what has driven city policeRead more...
Reynolds Honored with ASA Sex and Gender Section Paper Award
Mon, 06/13/2016
PhD candidate Celene Reynolds has won the 2016 Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Sex and Gender Section for her article “The Mobilization of Title IX in Colleges and Universities, 1994-2014.” The paper provides the first systematic analysis of how Title IX has been used inRead more...
Brothers Awarded National Science Foundation Fellowship
Wed, 06/08/2016
Graduate student Sarah Brothers has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to support her PhD research. Sarah’s dissertation is entitled ‘ “Doctoring”: Assisted Injection Practices Among Injection Drug Users’ . It analyzes whether and how genderRead more...
Erikson and Wherry Elected to ASA Section Council
Tue, 06/07/2016
Two faculty members have been elected to leadership positions in the American Sociological Association’s Economic Sociology Section. Professor Fred Wherry was voted in as Chair of the ASA Economic Sociology Council while Assistant Professor Emily Erikson was elected as a member of the councilRead more...
Debs Takes Postdoc Role in Yale Education Studies Program
Tue, 06/07/2016
PhD student Mira Debs has been appointed as the first post-doctoral fellow in Yale’s new Education Studies program. The year-long postdoc, beginning in January 2017, will allow Debs to continue teaching education courses in the Education Studies program and in Yale’s Department ofRead more...
Farrell Honored With ASA Section Book Award
Mon, 06/06/2016
Justin Farrell, Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, with a secondary appointment in our department, has won the ASA’s Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section’s 2016 Outstanding Published Book Award for his work ‘TheRead more...
Alumnus Schnettler Appointed Professor at Oldenburg
Wed, 06/01/2016
Recent PhD graduate and CIQLE fellow Sebastian Schnettler ’10 has been tenured as full professor of social research methods at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, in Germany. Prior to joining the faculty there, Schnettler worked as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz andRead more...
Yale College Teaching Prize for Lloyd Grieger
Mon, 05/16/2016
Lloyd Grieger, assistant professor of sociology and a Jackson faculty member, has received the Lex Hixon ’63 Prize, one of Yale’s 2016 Faculty Teaching Prizes, for teaching excellence in the social sciences.
Professor Grieger is a social demographer whose research interests include poverty andRead more...
