April 2024 News

Yale Sociology Ph.D. candidate Anne Marie Champagne has coedited a volume on Interpreting the Body, recently published in Bristol University Press Series: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology

Thu, 08/10/2023
Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter, coedited by Yale sociology doctoral candidate and CCS junior fellow Anne Marie Champagne and Asia Friedman (University of Delaware), is out now from Bristol University Press’s Interpretive Lenses in Sociology series. The volume, which explores Read more...

Jonathan Wyrtzen's Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Barrington Moore Book Award

Tue, 08/08/2023
Jonathan Wyrtzen’s Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Barrington Moore Book Award for the best book in Comparative and Historical Sociology, selected by the Comparative and Historical Read more...

The Korea Times (the largest English language newspaper in Korea) published an article about Grace Kao's research on and teaching of K-Pop

Wed, 06/14/2023
Yale professor talks about changes brought by K-pop Read more...

Yale sociology professor visits Korea to discuss the impact of K-pop on Asian American identity

Mon, 06/12/2023
Grace Kao, the IBM Professor of Sociology and Professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration at Yale, traveled to South Korea to present her research at several leading Korean academic institutions on the sociology of music, in particular K-pop and the significance its global popularity holds for Asian Read more...

Yale Sociology Professor Grace Kao quoted in CNN article on race and ethnicity

Mon, 06/12/2023
Sociology Professor Grace Kao interviewed on CNN on the meanings of race and ethnicity. Read more...

Grace Kao interviewed by Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism

Professor Kao in Korea
Mon, 06/12/2023
Korean Culture and Information Service interviewed Yale Sociology Professor Grace Kao on her love of and research into K-pop music. Read more...

Jonathan Wyrtzen's book, Worldmaking in the Long Great War, has been awarded the 2023 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award from the International History and Politics section of the American Political Science Association.

Fri, 05/26/2023
Citation from the jury: “This historically rich, theoretically informed book offers a new history of the making of the modern Middle East in the period 1911 to 1934, from the perspective of the local actors that played crucial roles in shaping that history. It challenges the “Sykes-Picot” Read more...

The Sociology Department congratulates graduating senior Julia Hontaruk-Levko on winning The James Andrew Haas Prize

Mon, 05/22/2023
The James Andrew Haas Prize is a awarded each year to that senior whose breadth of intellectual achievement, strength of character, and fundamental humanity shall be adjudged by the faculty to have provided leadership for his or her fellow students, inspiring in them a love of learning and concern Read more...

Rourke O'Brien has been awarded the 2023 Lex Hixon ’63 Prize.

Fri, 05/05/2023
Rourke O’Brien has been awarded the 2023 Lex Hixon ’63 Prize, given annually by Yale College for teaching excellence in the social sciences. It comes with a stipend and is ”one of the highest honors for teaching that Yale College can bestow.” Read more...

Sociology Welcomes Ramina Sotoudeh

Fri, 04/28/2023
We are pleased to welcome Ramina Sotoudeh. She will be joining us as an Assistant Professor of Sociology with a secondary appointment in Statistics & Data Science, on July 1, 2023. Ramina works on topics related to sociogenomics, culture, health and inequality. What unites these different lines Read more...