Associate Professor of Sociology (by courtesy) Marissa King has been awarded tenure at the Yale School of Management. Professor King is an affiliate of the Yale Institute of Network Science (YINS) and has advised undergraduate sociology majors on their senior theses. Her research examines network-Read more...
Dromi Wins ASA Best Paper Award
Fri, 07/08/2016
Recent PhD grad Shai Dromi has been honored with the Best Graduate Student Paper Award by the American Sociological Association’s Global and Transnational Sociology Section. Dromi, recently appointed as Lecturer on Sociology at Harvard University, won the award for his paper “For good andRead more...
Alumnus Sherman Knighted by King of Sweden
Mon, 06/27/2016
Congratulations to Yale Department of Sociology alumnus Lawrence W. Sherman, PhD ‘76, who has been knighted by King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden for his services to the country and its Ministry of Justice. Professor Sherman is Director of the Institute of Criminology of the University of Cambridge,Read more...
Turkmen-Dervisoglu Appointed as Post-Doc in Goettingen
Mon, 06/27/2016
Recent graduate Gulay Turkmen-Dervisoglu, PhD ’16, has been appointed as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Goettingen’s Forum for Interdisciplinary Religious Studies. During the two-year appointment, Turkmen-Dervisoglu will conduct research on ethnic and religious identity formationRead more...
Erikson Wins ASA Section Book Award
Mon, 06/27/2016
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...
