Professor Andrew Papachristos was on the National Public Radio daily program Morning Edition today in a segment covering his research on networks and gun violence in Chicago. In it, science journalist Shankar Vedantam explains the research and its findings and Andrew offers some extra analysis.Read more...
Almeling on WNYC
Wed, 10/08/2014
Professor Rene Almeling was a guest on New York City Public Radio’s Brian Lehrer Show last week. She took calls from listeners about the recent “wrongful birth” lawsuit filed by a lesbian couple against a sperm bank that accidentally sent them sperm from an African American donor rather thanRead more...
Sierra-Arévalo in Newsweek
Sat, 09/27/2014
Grad student Michael Sierra-Arévalo was interviewed by Newsweek for a new piece on American gun deaths. In it, he talks about the difficulties researchers face when they try to get good data on gun-related fatalities, pointing to frequent misclassifications on death certificates and diverse stateRead more...
Papachristos in Washington Post
Mon, 09/22/2014
Professor Andrew Papachristos published an op-ed in the Washington Post this weekend on crime and inequality. In it, he argues that “America’s haves and have-nots are divided not just by how much people earn, where they went to school or what car they drive, but more fundamentally by whether theyRead more...
Wilson Asks What Sociologists Do All Day
Tue, 09/09/2014
Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer Nicholas Hoover Wilson and his colleague Damon Mayrl have been awarded an American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline grant for their project, “What Do Historical Sociologists Do All Day? Historical Methods in Theory and PracticeRead more...
Alexander Named PBK Scholar
Sun, 09/07/2014
Professor Jeffrey Alexander has been named this year’s Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar. He will visit 8 colleges and universities this academic year, spending two days at each one and taking full part in the academic life of the institutions. He will meet informally with students andRead more...
Money Talks at Yale
Thu, 09/04/2014
On September 12 Yale will host a symposium, “Money Talks”, on money and the social. Distinguished panelists will present their work on markets, morals, and meanings, and a special panel will recognize the 20th anniversary of Viviana Zelizer’s groundbreaking book “The Social Meaning of MoneyRead more...
Erikson Keynote in Ghent
Thu, 09/04/2014
Later this month Professor Emily Erikson will give a keynote on “Networks and Early Modern Institutional Change” in Ghent at the Historical Network Research Conference. If you’re in the area, check it out!
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Anderson in the Washington Post on Ferguson, Missouri
Wed, 08/13/2014
Professor Elijah Anderson published an op-ed in the Washington Post on structural poverty, broken windows policing, and police-community relations. In his essay, titled “What caused the Ferguson riot exists in so many other cities, too”, he argues for a change in police strategy across the U.S.Read more...
Plys on Crisis
Fri, 07/25/2014
Graduate student Kristin Plys has a new article out now in the journal World Review of Political Economy. In her article, titled “Financialization, Crisis, and the Development of Capitalism in the USA”, she finds a correlation between a decline in the rate of profit and the advent of crisis, andRead more...
