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...
"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...
