"Cultural Analysis and Complex Phenomena”: CCS Spring Conference
Tue, 04/23/2013
On May 3-4, the Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS) will hold its annual spring conference. This year’s program, Cultural Analysis and Complex Phenomena, includes a Keynote address by Faculty Fellow Nina Eliasoph and a Plenary address by Faculty Fellow Bernhard Giesen. Rounding out theRead more...
Philadelphia's Mayor Nutter Speaks on Gun Violence in America
Tue, 04/23/2013
Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia, in an invited lecture under the auspices of Professor Elijah Anderson’s Urban Ethnography Project, spoke to a gathering of Yale students on the problem of gun violence in America. In attendance at his lecture were also New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, JrRead more...
Elisabeth Becker Receives Fox and DAAD Fellowships
Thu, 04/11/2013
Elisabeth Becker has been awarded the DAAD Research Fellowship. DAAD is the German national agency for the support of international academic cooperation, and is the largest grantor of international academic mobility support in the world. Read more…
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Yale Institute of Network Science (YINS) Launches July 1, Christakis and Spielman Inaugural Directors
Thu, 04/11/2013
President-Elect Peter Salovey announced today that Yale will establish an interdisciplinary Institute of Network Science. YINS will be co-directed by sociologist and physician Dr. Nicholas Christakis, who will join the Yale faculty this summer, and Dan Spielman, of Computer Science andRead more...
Professor Elijah Anderson Keynotes British Sociological Association Plenary
Mon, 04/01/2013
The Iconic Ghetto: A Reference Point for the New American Colour Line will be the topic of Professor Elijah Anderson’s Plenary Address to the annual British Sociological Association conference on April 4 in the Grand Connaught Rooms, London, England. The full listing can be found here:http://Read more...
Charles Camic Speaks at Beinecke, Marking Acquisition of Bradford H. Gray Collection in the History of Social Thought
Wed, 03/27/2013
Today the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library celebrated the acquisition of the Bradford H. Gray Collection in the History of Social Thought with a luncheon, talk, and view of some items in the collection. Brad Gray (Sociology PhD ‘73) spoke movingly about the collection that he assembledRead more...
Andrew Udelsman (Yale '10) will be an NYU-Abu Dhabi Global Academic Fellow
Mon, 03/11/2013
In the coming academic year, Andrew Udelsman (Yale ‘10) will be an NYU-Abu Dhabi Global Academic Fellow. He departs for Abu Dhabi in August 2013. Best of luck, Andrew!
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Jonathan Endelman Awarded Critical Language Scholarship
Tue, 03/05/2013
Jonathan Endelman has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship for summer 2013. He will be spending the summer in Turkey in either Bursa or Ankara. The CLS institute is funded by the U.S. State Department and provides one academic year of study through an intensive eight-week program. FormalRead more...
Marcus Hunter's Book, Black Citymakers, Just Published
Fri, 03/01/2013
Professor Marcus Hunter’s new book, Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America, has just been published by Oxford University Press. The book revisits the Black Seventh Ward, which W.E.B. DuBois immortalized in 1899, and analyzes both its transformation and the roleRead more...
Sixth Annual Stan Wheeler Memorial Jazz Concert
Thu, 02/28/2013
The Stan Wheeler Memorial Jazz Concert, a springtime tradition to honor the memory of beloved professor and jazz musician, Stan Wheeler, will be held on Sunday, April 7, 2013, from 2:00-3:30 p.m. in Yale Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall Street, New Haven. Presented by the dean andRead more...
