Professor Elijah Anderson has contributed an essay to a New York Times discussion on gun control in the United States. The online debate asks “Is the Gun Lobby Still Invincible?” three years after the school shooting in Sandy Hook, CT. Professor Anderson writes that “Guns will be controlled in ourRead more...
Hilmar's Research Featured in Memory Studies
Mon, 09/28/2015
Till Hilmar, a third year graduate student, has his work featured in the journal Memory Studies this month. Hilmar’s paper, entitled “Storyboards of remembrance: Representations of the past in visitors’ photography at Auschwitz” combines a range of methods to explore how and why photographyRead more...
McHarris Awarded Prestigious Fellowships
Mon, 09/28/2015
Graduate student Philip McHarris, a second year student in Sociology and African American Studies was recently awarded a Ford Predoctoral Fellowship, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Yale ISPS Policy Fellowship, and a University of Pennsylvania Social Science and Policy Forum PredisertationRead more...
Becker Awarded Academy Fellowship
Wed, 09/23/2015
Graduate student Elisabeth Becker has been awarded a fellowship from the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (CAAS) for the 2015-16 academic year. Becker, in her fourth year at Yale, studies Muslim communities in European capital cities. Her ethnographic research focuses on how mosqueRead more...
Elijah Anderson to Deliver Lecture at University of Chicago
Mon, 09/14/2015
Professor Elijah Anderson will address graduates of the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration at a reunion event next month. Anderson will deliver the 2015 Pastora San Juan Cafferty Lecture on Race and Ethnicity in American Life on October 20 at the Midwest schoolRead more...
Shirado Co-Authors Nature Paper
Mon, 09/14/2015
Research co-authored by graduate student Hirokazu Shirado was featured in Nature journal last week. The paper, entitled “Inequality and visibility of wealth in experimental social networks” reported on an experiment to identify how the visibility of inequality affects future outcomes. The YaleRead more...
Erikson Edits New Volume in Political Power and Social Theory
Mon, 08/17/2015
Following on from the success of her book ‘Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757,’ Professor Emily Erikson recently edited ‘Chartering Capitalism: Organizing Markets, States, and Publics,’ a new volume published in the Political Power and Social Theory bookRead more...
Smith Takes Over as Department Chair
Mon, 07/13/2015
Professor Philip Smith has taken over from Richard Breen as Chair of the Department of Sociology. His three-year term began on July 1. Richard has returned to Oxford University. Smith did his undergraduate work in Edinburgh and earned his PhD at UCLA. He then worked at the University of QueenslandRead more...
Emily Erikson Awarded Ralph Gomory Prize
Thu, 07/02/2015
Professor Emily Erikson has been awarded the 2015 Ralph Gomory Prize for her recent book ‘Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company’. The prize, given by the Business History Conference, recognizes historical work on the effects of business enterprises on the economicRead more...
Congratulations to Our PhD Students!
Tue, 06/02/2015
Congratulations to all PhD students in our department who graduated this year: Seongsoo Choi, Thomas Crosbie, Alison Gerber, Joseph Klett, Matt Lawrence, Carolyn Ly, Elizabeth Roberto, Yasushi Tanaka, and Sandy Zhao. You can find details of these recent graduates on our placements page.
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