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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New Publication by Phil Gorski and Gülay Türkmen-Dervişoğlu
Sat, 07/20/2013
Professor Phil Gorski and PhD student Gülay Türkmen-Dervişoğlu have a new article published in the Annual Review of Sociology on religion, nationalism, and violence. In it they consider fractured scholarship across disciplines and theoretical approaches, and argue that “a coherent synthesis capableRead more...
Craig Holloway selected as an ISPS Policy Fellow
Wed, 06/26/2013
PhD student Craig Holloway is one of the thirteen fellows selected as an ISPS Policy Fellow for the 2013–14 academic year. See below for the links to Craig’s profile and to the ISPS announcement.
Congratulations Craig!!
http://isps.yale.edu/team/craig-lapriece-holloway#.UbiQPvm1GSo
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Mary Barr named Fellow at Harvard's Du Bois Institute
Sat, 06/15/2013
Graduate Dr. Mary Barr, Lecturer at Clemson University, has been named a Summer Institute Fellow on African-American Struggles for Freedom and Civil Rights at Harvard University’s Du Bois Institute by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Congratulations Mary!
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New report on Sudan from incoming student Jean-Baptiste Gallopin
Thu, 06/13/2013
Amnesty International released a new report on violence in Sudan by researcher and incoming PhD student Jean-Baptiste Gallopin. Read the press release >> View the full report >>.
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