Professor Emily Erikson’s book, “Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757” is out now from Princeton’s Analytical Sociology series! In it, she explores why the English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in historyRead more...
Yavaş on Network Homophily
Wed, 04/30/2014
Graduate student Mustafa Yavaş has a paper out now in Social Science Computer Review titled “Impact of Homophily on Diffusion Dynamics Over Social Networks”. In it, he and coauthor Gönenç Yücel aim to explain the observed regular relationship between homophily and diffusion. Check it out here -Read more...
Mapping Local Governance
Wed, 04/30/2014
All are welcome to the Yale Program on Governance and Local Development’s Inaugural Conference May 1 and 2 at the Greenberg Conference Center. Professor Jonathan Wyrtzen co-organized the conference, and will speak about his work. The conference will bring together policymakers and scholars toRead more...
Sussman Award to Junker
Mon, 04/28/2014
All are welcome to the annual Sussman Award Lecture this Wednesday, April 30, at 2:30 pm in the School of Law Building, room 122. This year’s Marvin B. Sussman Award winner is recent graduate Andrew Junker, who received the award for his dissertation, titled “Sacred and Secular Protest inRead more...
Endelman awarded Fox Fellowship
Thu, 04/24/2014
Graduate student Jonathan Endelman has been awarded a Fox Fellowship from Yale’s MacMillan Center. He will spend the next year in Istanbul, Turkey, where he will be affiliated with Boğaziçi University doing research for his dissertation on the development of parliamentary representation andRead more...
Sass Awarded Mellon/ACLS Fellowship
Thu, 04/24/2014
Graduate student Jensen Sass has been awarded a 2014-2015 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Writing Fellowship. This prestigious award is intended to support a year of research and writing for advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences. Congratulations, Jensen!
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Center for Cultural Sociology 10th Anniversary Conference
Fri, 04/18/2014
The Center for Cultural Sociology is celebrating its 10th anniversary by hosting a special conference, Advancing Cultural Sociology, from Friday, April 25, 1:00 PM to Sunday, April 27, 1:00 PM at Yale. Speakers will cover a wide range of topics in cultural sociology, especially meaning-centeredRead more...
Urban Ethnography Conference Draws Wide Attendance
Mon, 04/14/2014
The Yale Urban Ethnography Project, led by Professor Elijah Anderson, recently held its urban ethnography conference at the Graduate Club in New Haven and attracted nearly one hundred attendees. This is the third such major conference, held since 2008, that brings world class ethnographers togetherRead more...
Wagner Awarded Fulbright
Tue, 04/08/2014
Graduate student Luke Wagner has been selected for a 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Nepal. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program of the United States, and the award will allow Luke to conduct research for his dissertation on the role ofRead more...
Klett and Gerber in Cultural Sociology
Tue, 04/08/2014
Graduate students Joseph Klett and Alison Gerber have a new publication out now in the journal Cultural Sociology. In it, they argue that without attention to interaction and performance analyses of noise music are incomplete. Check it out here. Congratulations, Joe and Alison!
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