A new article by graduate student Gülay Türkmen-Dervişoğlu on cultural trauma, Turkish national identity, and coming to terms with the past is now available online ahead of print at Nations and Nationalism. Congratulations, Gülay!
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New Issue of Nations and Nationalism
Wed, 09/04/2013
A new special issue of Nations and Nationalism on Cultural Sociology and Nationalism in their online first edition on their website. The volume features articles by Professor Jonathan Wyrtzen and graduate students Mira Debs and Gulay Turkmen, an introduction on the ways cultural sociology canRead more...
Jeff Alexander to Receive Honorary Doctorate
Tue, 09/03/2013
Professor Jeff Alexander will receive an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin this week. In honor of his award, a daylong workshop, “Is Civil Society the Good Society? A Philosophical-Sociological Exchange”, will present and discuss his work on the civil sphere, and the Irish TimesRead more...
Adams Awarded NSF Grant for Research on Wikipedia
Mon, 09/02/2013
Professors Julia Adams and Hannah Brueckner (Associate Dean of Social Science, NYU-Abu Dhabi) have been awarded a two-year National Science Foundation grant for collaborative research on “Wikipedia and the
Democratization of Academic Knowledge.” Graduate students Jesse Einhorn and Tim Malacarne areRead more...
Major ISA Award to Immanuel Wallerstein
Fri, 08/30/2013
The International Sociological Association has created a new quadrennial award for Excellence in Scholarship and Practice, and its first recipient is Professor Immanuel Wallerstein. The award is intended for a sociologist “who advances and promotes sociologicaL knowledge and practice throughRead more...
New Op-Ed on Missing Women
Sun, 08/25/2013
Vani Kulkarni, a postdoctoral research associate at the Urban Ethnography Project, together with her colleagues Manoj Pandey and Raghav Gaiha, has published an op-ed in The Hindu on overcoming son preference in India. To read more, go to: The Hindu. Congratulations, Vani!
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Andrew Papachristos in Joint Workshop with Yale Law School on Social Network Analysis
Fri, 08/02/2013
In a joint effort between the Yale Department of Sociology and Yale Law School, Professor Andrew Papachristos and Professor Tracey Meares led a workshop on the use of social network analysis in the fields of criminal justice and violence prevention. Workshop attendees included scholars from aRead more...
Critical Realism Conference and Seminar
Sun, 07/28/2013
Professor Philip Gorski has organized a major conference on Critical Realism to take place in New York City August 14-15, as well as a summer seminar in New Haven from July 29 – August 9. The conference and seminar consider the Critical Realist movement, now over thirty years old, and includeRead more...
Op-ed on Disciplinary Futures by Nicholas Christakis in the New York Times
Mon, 07/22/2013
Professor Nicholas Christakis, co-director of the new Yale Institute for Network Science, has authored an op-ed on the future of the social sciences for the New York Times. In it, he argues for novel institutional structures to support investigation in new fields of inquiry. Read it here >Read more...
Chicago PD Rolls Out a New Strategy to Stop Violence with Help from Research by Professor Andrew Papachristos
Mon, 07/22/2013
The Chicago Police Department has developed a new strategy involving face-to-face meetings and dialogue in an effort to quell gang-related violence, informed by Professor Andrew Papachristos’s research on the small world of violent crime. Read more about it here >
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