Matt Andersson, a postdoctoral fellow, is to take up a position as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Baylor University in the fall. Much of Matt’s work focuses on socioeconomic inequalities in health and takes a life-course approach. During his time at Yale he has conducted research withRead more...
Dromi Appointed Lecturer at Harvard University
Sat, 04/30/2016
PhD candidate Shai Dromi has been appointed as a Lecturer on Sociology at Harvard University starting in Fall 2016. He will be teaching courses on philanthropy, humanitarian movements, and social trauma. Dromi’s dissertation, entitled “The Religious Origins of Transnational Relief: Calvinism,Read more...
Reynolds Awarded Horowitz Foundation Grant
Sat, 04/30/2016
Graduate student Celene Reynolds has been awarded a grant from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for her dissertation research, “From Unequal Play to Unwanted Contact: Title IX in American Universities, 1972-2014.” The Foundation aims to support social scientists in the early stages ofRead more...
Dromi Publishes in The Sociological Review
Sat, 04/30/2016
PhD candidate Shai Dromi has a new paper out in a special issue of The Sociological Review. The article is entitled ‘For good and country: nationalism and the diffusion of humanitarianism in the late nineteenth century’ and appears in the journal’s special edition, Fielding Transnationalism, Read more...
Sierra-Arévalo Publishes on Gun Violence Reduction Strategy
Tue, 04/19/2016
Graduate student Michael Sierra-Arévalo recently published a paper analyzing a gun violence reduction program piloted in New Haven, CT. Co-authored with Professor Andrew V. Papachristos and postdoc Dr. Yanick Charette, the piece in Crime & Delinquency examines the first phase of ProjectRead more...
Becker Honored by GSAS for Public Scholarship
Tue, 04/19/2016
Graduate student Elisabeth Becker has been selected by Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) to receive its 2016 Public Service Award in recognition of her work as a Public Scholar. Elisabeth’s doctoral research focuses on ethnographic research in European mosqueRead more...
DeLand Handed ASA Ethnomethodology Award
Fri, 04/15/2016
Congratulations to postdoc Dr. Michael DeLand, who has won the Mel Pollner Award in Ethnomethodology. Dr. DeLand was honored with the $1,000 prize in recognition of his essay “Basketball in the Key of Law: The Significance of Disputing in Pick-Up Basketball,” published in a 2013 edition of theRead more...
Legewie Joins Department, Strengthening Quantitative Program
Sat, 04/09/2016
We are delighted to announce that Joscha Legewie will be joining our department from July 1 as an Assistant Professor of Sociology. Legewie gained his PhD in sociology from Columbia University in 2013 and, since 2014, has been Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology at New York University.Read more...
Erikson Elected to SASE Executive Council
Fri, 04/08/2016
Professor Emily Erikson has been elected to serve on the Executive Council of the SASE (the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics). SASE is an international, inter-disciplinary organization focused on the emerging meta-discipline of socio-economics. The Executive Council is SASE’sRead more...
Mooney to join Princeton Theological Seminary
Thu, 03/31/2016
Dr. Margarita Mooney has been working in our department since 2013 as an Associate Research Scientist and the Co-Principal Investigator on Professor Philip S. Gorski’s $2.1 million John Templeton Foundation-funded project on “Critical Realism and Human Personhood”. Now she is set to join Read more...
