This year’s Marvin B. Sussman Award winner is recent graduate Michael Yarbrough who received the award for his dissertation ‘I Now Declare You’: State Law and the Making of Marriage in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Michael will deliver the Sussman Lecture, based on his dissertation, on Wednesday,Read more...
Yale sociology major Abdul-Razak M. Zachariah has been awarded the prestigious Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship to support his research and his commitment to an academic career in the field. Zachariah, a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College, will use the fellowship to research the influence ofRead more...
Papachristos Appointed to State Commission on Youth and Urban Violence
Thu, 03/26/2015
Professor Andrew V. Papachristos has been appointed to a panel of experts set up by Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy that aims to create policies to reduce crime in urban communities. The Governor’s Commission on Youth and Urban Violence, announced on March 25, will identify risk factors thatRead more...
Dromi Awarded Fellowship for Faith and Giving Research
Sun, 03/22/2015
Graduate student Shai Dromi has been selected to receive the Lake Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship to support his research and dissertation writing through 2015-16. The fellowship is presented annually to a doctoral candidate working in the field of faith and giving or religion and philanthropy.Read more...
Almeling Awarded National Science Foundation Grant
Fri, 03/20/2015
Professor Rene Almeling has been awarded a two-year grant by the National Science Foundation for her research on medical knowledge-making about men’s reproduction. Using a combination of historical, qualitative, and quantitative methods, Almeling is examining scientific and medical research aboutRead more...
Alumnus Weisburd Honored With Israel Prize
Fri, 03/20/2015
Yale sociology alumnus Professor David Weisburd, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has been awarded the Israel Prize in Social work and Criminological research. The Israel Prize is regarded as the state’s highest honor and is presented annually on Israel’s independence day in aRead more...
"Remaking Modernity" Ten Years On
Thu, 03/12/2015
A call for papers has been issued for “Revisiting Remaking Modernity: New Voices in Comparative-Historical Sociology,” to mark the decade since “the landmark volume” edited by Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens and Ann Shola Orloff. The August 21 mini-conference, sponsored by the ASA Section onRead more...
Christakis Appointed Silliman College Master
Fri, 02/27/2015
Congratulations to Nicholas A. Christakis, Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science, on his appointment as the next master of Silliman College for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2015.
Yale President Peter Salovey made the announcement Thursday, saying: “Professor ChristakisRead more...
Alumnus Herzog on Revoking Citizenship
Sun, 02/01/2015
Yale sociology alumnus Ben Herzog has a new book, entitled ‘Revoking Citizenship: Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror’ to be published next month by New York University Press. In the book, Dr Herzog examines America’s long history of making both naturalized immigrantsRead more...
Yale Jazz Ensemble - Annual Stan Wheeler Memorial Jazz Concert
Wed, 01/28/2015
Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Yale Law School (127 Wall St, New Haven)
“2015 Stan Wheeler Memorial Jazz Concert”
feat. the Yale Jazz Ensemble and the Reunion Jazz Ensemble
The two ensembles pay tribute to late Yale Law School Professor Stanton Wheeler, who was an early member of the jazzRead more...
