Research by Professors Julia Adams (Yale) and Hannah Brückner (NYU-Abu Dhabi) on science, gender, and Wikipedia was discussed at NBC News today. Professor Adams was quoted in the piece, which discusses the gender schism among wikipedians and the accuracy of information about scientific research onRead more...
The Behavioral Economics Program at the Russell Sage Foundation has awarded a research grant to Sociology Professors Frederick Wherry (Yale), Kristin Seefeldt (University of Michigan), and Anthony Alvarez (California State- Fullerton) to support their research on financial inclusion. According toRead more...
Graduate Student Angela Onwuachi-Willig has been selected to receive the Association of American Law Schools Minority Groups Section’s highest honor for senior faculty, the Clyde Ferguson, Jr. Award. Alongside her studies in our Ph.D. program, Angela is the Charles and Marion J. KierschtRead more...
Graduate student Thomas Crosbie has accepted a position as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Center for Research on Military Organization in the Sociology Department of the University of Maryland, College Park. He will be working on turning his dissertation (“Democratic Oversight and Military AutonomyRead more...
Graduate student Elizabeth Roberto has been awarded the 2014 James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Studying Complex Systems for her research on the spatial dynamics of social inequality in U.S. Cities. The award is intended to support scholarship and research directedRead more...
This Tuesday (October 14) we look forward to hosting distinguished scholar Kristin Luker, who will deliver a talk titled “Abortion, Contraception, and the Neoliberal Moment”. Luker (‘74 PhD) has been awarded the Wilbur Cross Medal, the highest honor the Yale Graduate School accords its alumni. JoinRead more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
