Onwuachi-Willig Receives Clyde Ferguson, Jr. Award
Fri, 11/21/2014
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...
Crosbie to UMD
Tue, 10/21/2014
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...
Roberto Awarded Complex Systems Fellowship
Sat, 10/18/2014
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...
Luker Awarded Wilbur Cross Medal
Mon, 10/13/2014
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...
Papachristos on Morning Edition
Thu, 10/09/2014
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...
