Mira Debs awarded grant by American Montessori Society
Tue, 06/04/2013
Graduate student Mira Debs has won a Research Mini-Grant from the American Montessori Society Research Committee. Her dissertation, an ethnography, examines parental engagement and activism in Montessori schools and in the national Montessori movement. Congratulations Mira!
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Graduate Jenny Shelby wins Mildred Priest Frank Award and the Lily Rosen Prize in Women's Health
Wed, 05/29/2013
We are proud to announce that Jenny Shelby has been awarded the Department’s Mildred Priest Frank Award for her senior thesis, “Prescribing Power and The Pill: Medical Authority in the Popularization of Oral Contraceptives in the United States of America, 1957 to 1965”. Her thesis, which makes aRead more...
Elizabeth Breese on Yale's Associates in Teaching Program
Sat, 05/25/2013
Yale Graduate School has released new material on the Associates in Teaching program.. and they chose our own Elizabeth Breese to sing its praises! Elizabeth talks about her background at a small liberal arts college and about working with Professor Julia Adams on their course The SociologicalRead more...
Department Celebrates New Graduates
Thu, 05/23/2013
The Department is proud to present Dr. Elizabeth Breese, Dr. Tabitha Decker, Dr. Andrew Junker, Dr. Esther Kim, Dr. Sylvia Mitraud, Dr. Samuel Nelson, and Dr. Michael Yarbrough! University commencement exercises and the Graduate School diploma ceremony took place on Monday, May 20. Four graduateRead more...
Thomas Meyer Publishes Security Studies Article and "Serving Those Who Served"
Tue, 05/21/2013
Congratulations to Sociology graduate Thomas Meyer on two new publications! While a Sociology undergrad, Thomas was awarded the Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship to support his work, and on graduation in 2011 he headed to Cambridge for a year as a Fox International Fellow. His article on roleRead more...
“Thinking Globally”: Professors Anderson and Wallerstein Speak at Fondation Maison de Sciences de l'Homme's 50th Anniversary
Wed, 05/15/2013
Elijah Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein are speaking in Paris at the “Thinking Globally” international symposium organized by the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme in honor of the Foundation’s 50th anniversary. Professor Wallerstein will discuss intellectual, organizational, andRead more...
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...
