June 2025 News

Sociology Professor Ángel Escamilla García featured in Yale FAS News

Thu, 05/16/2024

Assistant Professor of Sociology Escamilla García was featured in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Meet the FAS faculty. Read more...

Patrice D. Collins is the 2024 winner of the Yale Sociology department's 21st Century Dissertation Prize, for her dissertation 'Everybody is Locked Up': Families with Incarcerated Loved Ones.

Tue, 05/14/2024

Patrice Collins’ 2022 dissertation, ‘Everybody is Locked Up’: Families with Incarcerated Loved Ones, is an outstanding ethnographic study that renders and explains the ways in which ordinary, everyday policing effectively criminalizes a significant portion of the impoverished local Black community Read more...

Eric Martin Feltham is the 2024 winner of the Yale Sociology Department's Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize, for his dissertation "Cognizing Social Networks"

Tue, 05/14/2024

Social network analysis has provided foundational insights into the nature of human sociality and has been used to understand and improve diverse policy outcomes.  A common goal of research in this area has been to construct an accurate measure of the social network by ascertaining how everyone in Read more...

Yale faculty member Nicholas A. Christakis elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences

Mon, 05/13/2024

Nicholas A. Christakis was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of  distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The academy, established by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 was charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters Read more...

Psychology Today published an article, “Romantic Relationships Turn Off Women More Than Men,” that summarizes a paper by PhD candidates Hannah Tessler and Meera Choi, and Grace Kao

Sociology Professor Grace Kao Honored as 2024 Graduate Mentor Award Recipient for Social Sciences

Thu, 04/25/2024

Each year the Graduate School honors faculty members at Convocation for their exemplary qualities as mentors, who have shown outstanding commitment to advising and student support. Honorees representing each of the divisions are selected.  Grace Kao, IBM Professor of Sociology and Professor of Read more...

Scott Boorman Published New Book

Mon, 04/01/2024

Professor Scott Boorman published a new book Three Faces of Sun Tzu.  Sun Tzu’s Art of War is widely regarded as the most influential military and strategic classic of all time.  Through ‘reverse engineering’ of the text structered around 14 Sun Tzu ‘themes,’ this rigorous analysis furnishes Read more...

Elijah Anderson Explains Importance of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Study ‘The Philadelphia Negro.’

Thu, 03/07/2024

In an interview in The Conversation Yale Sociologist Elijah Anderson talks about the background of  W.E.B. Du Bois’ groundbreaking study  “The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study,” published in 1899 and why it is still relevant today. Read more...

Grace Kao has been named a regular contributor to The Korea Herald, the largest English-language newspaper in South Korea.

Wed, 02/14/2024

Grace Kao has been named a regular contributor to The Korea Herald, the largest English-language newspaper in South Korea. She will write about K-Pop, K-Dramas (and the Korean Wave), and sociological topics of interest to South Koreans and Americans.  Her first column, “The Appeal of K-Pop to Read more...

Sociology Student Kayla Thomas Reflects on the Value a Graduate Policy Fellowship with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Brought Her

Thu, 12/21/2023

Being an ISPS policy fellow gave Kayla Thomas the opportunity for interdisciplinary feedback on her research on how residents in her home of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, N.Y., manage and navigate ongoing neighborhood phenomena, such as gentrification, policing, and increasing reports of antisemitism Read more...