“The Twittersphere's Pick for Best Picture” Elizabeth Butler Breese for the Huffington Post
Fri, 02/22/2013
Elizabeth Butler Breese, (Yale Sociology PhD, 2012), has written for the Huffington Post blog, a piece on the 2012 Oscar nominees for Best Picture, as analyzed from the volume of discussion on Twitter. To read the complete article, click here >>.
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Rene Almeling's Research Featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Tue, 02/19/2013
Professor Rene Almeling’s research on egg and sperm donation is featured in an article published today in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Titled “The Student Body, for Sale,” the article examines how college students sell various bodily goods and services in order to pay tuition. HereRead more...
Christopher Wildeman's Research Featured in The New York Times
Mon, 02/18/2013
Professor Chris Wildeman’s research on children of the American prison boom prompts a New York Times mention in John Tierney’s “Prison and the Poverty Trap,” Read more here >> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/science/long-prison-terms-eyed-as-contributing-to-poverty.html?Read more...
Theda Skocpol to Give Department's Hollingshead Lecture February 20 at Sterling Memorial Library
Thu, 02/14/2013
This year the Department of Sociology has the pleasure of hosting Professor Theda Skocpol of Harvard University for the annual Hollingshead Lecture, held on Wednesday February 20 at 12:00 noon. Professor Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology. The topic of this yearRead more...
Sociologists Join Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies Panel on Gun Violence
Wed, 02/06/2013
The Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) will host a panel, “Preventing Gun Violence: What Research and Experience Can Tell Us About What Works,” on Thursday, February 7, from 6:30-7:30 PM in LC 102. Professor Andrew Papachristos and Michael Sierra-Arevalo, a doctoral student inRead more...
ASA Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Recognizes Professor Elijah Anderson
Tue, 01/29/2013
Elijah Anderson, William K. Lanman Professor of Sociology, has received the prestigious Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association. The award recognizes work in the tradition of African-American scholars W.E.B. DuBois, Oliver Cromwell Cox, Charles S. Johnson, and E.Read more...
CCR Biannual Grad Conference at New Haven Lawn Club
Sat, 01/26/2013
The biannual Grad Student Conference of the Center for Comparative Research (CCR) was held on January 26 at the New Haven Lawn Club. This year’s special program, “The Meaning of Location; The Location of Meaning,” saw grad students from Yale, Brown, CUHK, NYU, Columbia, and Harvard presentRead more...
Nicholas Christakis, Frederick F. Wherry to Join Faculty in 2013
Tue, 01/15/2013
Frederick F. Wherry will join the Yale faculty as Professor of Sociology on July 1 2013. Professor Wherry, currently at Columbia University, is the author of several noted books on the intersection of culture and economic processes, including The Culture of Markets(Polity, 2012), The PhiladelphiaRead more...
“Emmett and Trayvon:” Elijah Anderson Article in Washington Monthly
Mon, 01/14/2013
Emmett Till, 14, who was murdered in 1955, and Trayvon Martin, 17, slain in 2011, have become symbols of some of the challenges that have faced young black men in America. Professor Elijah Anderson compares their killings, and “different strains of racial tension,” in an article in WashingtonRead more...
New Book, Bourdieu and Historical Analysis, edited by Phil Gorski
Mon, 01/14/2013
A volume of essays, Bourdieu and Historical Analysis, edited by Professor Philip Gorski, has just been published in the Politics, History, and Culture Series of Duke University Press. The volume focuses on Bourdieu as a theorist of social transformation and historical change. Duke Press >> Read more...
