Xiaohong Xu Gets Honorable Mention for Langer Prize
Fri, 05/10/2013
Xiaohong Xu has received honorable mention for the Suzanne Langer Prize for Best Student Paper in the ASA Sociology of Culture section, for his paper “Belonging Before Believing: Ethical Activism, Sectarian Ethos, and Bloc Recruitment in the Making of Chinese Communism.”
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Rui Gao has won this year’s Marvin B. Sussman Best Dissertation Award for her 2011 thesis Eclipse and Memory: Public Representation of the War of Resistance in Maoist China and its Official Revision in the Post-Mao Era. The department hopes to hear Rui present on her dissertation on May 8th.Read more...
Michael Sierra-Arévalo at Safe Oakland in May
Mon, 05/06/2013
Michael Sierra-Arévalo is accompanying Professor Andy Papachristos, the featured presenter at the Safe Oakland Speaker Series on May 22, on a joint research tour in California. Along with Professor Papachristos, Michael is conducting research on gang violence in cities and the social networksRead more...
Rob Robinson Co-Winner of the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards
Sun, 05/05/2013
Nancy Davis and Rob Robinson’s (Yale Soc Ph.D) book, Claiming Society for God: Religious Movements and Social Welfare in Egypt, Israel, Italy, and the United States (Indiana University Press, 2012), is the co-winner of the gold medal in the Religion category of the 2013 Independent PublisherRead more...
Profile of Andrew Papachristos at Robert Wood Johnson Online
Fri, 05/03/2013
A profile story of Associate Professor Andrew Papachristos, entitled, “Integrating Sociology and Public Health to Reduce Homicide and Gun Violence,” appears on the RWJF website section, Health and Society Scholars Grantee Stories. Read here >>
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ASA Graduate Student Paper Awards to Jeff Guhin and Xiaohong Xu
Wed, 05/01/2013
Our grads continue to be recognized by the discipline at large! Jeffrey Guhin is one of the two winners of the 2013 Graduate Student Paper Award for his paper, “Why Worry?: Evolution and Narrative Path Dependence in Sunni and Evangelical High Schools.” Xiaohong Xu has won Honorable Mention from theRead more...
Graduate Student Paper Award to Jeff Guhin
Wed, 05/01/2013
Jeffrey Guhin is one of the two winners of the ASA 2013 Graduate Student Paper Award/Religion Section for his paper, “Why Worry?: Evolution and Narrative Path Dependence in Sunni and Evangelical High Schools.” Congratulations Jeff!
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Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award to Chris Wildeman
Tue, 04/30/2013
Professor Chris Wildeman has received this year’s Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award. The award recognizes outstanding scholarly contributions to the discipline of criminology by someone who has received the Ph.D., MD, LL.D. or analogous graduate degree no more than five years beforehandRead more...
Deborah Davis Awarded Lex Hixon '63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences
Mon, 04/29/2013
Professor Deborah Davis is this year’s winner of Yale’s coveted Lex Hixon ‘63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences. Congratulations, Debbie! Read more in the Yale News >>
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Thomas Crosbie Receives Smith Richardson Award
Thu, 04/25/2013
Tom Crosbie has received the Research and Travel Award in International History and Security provided by the Smith Richardson Foundation. These awards provide support to graduate students for summer and yearlong archival research in the field of security studies, especially international,Read more...
