Incoming Chair of ASA Global & Transnational, Julia Adams, in Global Review
Fri, 08/17/2012
Incoming G & TS chair Julia Adams and outgoing chair Sarah Babb are interviewed by editor A. Aneesh in the current Global Review. Click here for more>>
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Elijah Anderson, Grads and Postdocs Bring Fieldwork to ASA Special Session
Sun, 08/12/2012
Elijah Anderson will lead a special session at the 2012 ASA Annual Meetings, featuring “Bringing Fieldwork Back In: Contemporary Urban Ethnographic Research,” a 2012 volume of the Annals of the America Academy of Political and Social Science. Professor Anderson will be joined by Annals specialRead more...
Roy S. Bryce-Laporte, Yale Sociologist Who Led Black Studies, Dies at 78
Fri, 08/10/2012
Roy S. Bryce-Laporte, a sociologist who led one of the nation’s first African-American studies departments here at Yale in 1969, died on July 31 in Sykesville, Md. He was 78. Sidney Mintz, chairman of the committee that created the curriculum, called Professor Bryce-Laporte “the first manager ofRead more...
Department of Justice Grant Goes to Profs. Papachristos and Wildeman
Wed, 08/08/2012
Professors Andy Papachristos and Chris Wildeman have received a U.S. Department of Justice grant for their “Using Social Network Analysis for Crime Prevention and Evaluation.” Prof. Tracey Meares of Yale Law School is a Collaborator on the grant. The award is tied to a violence preventionRead more...
Juan Linz to Address IPSA World Congress of Political Science
Tue, 06/26/2012
Juan Linz, Sterling Professor Emeritus, will address the 22nd World Congress of Political Science in Madrid on July 8th. Professor Linz taught in Yale Sociology and Political Science from 1968 to 1999. View Professor Linz’s video address >>
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Jeff Alexander, New Book!
Thu, 06/21/2012
Jeffrey Alexander’s Trauma: A Social Theory has just been published by Polity. In it, Professor Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe. More Details >>
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Anthony Spires Receives Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award
Fri, 06/08/2012
Anthony Spires has won the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award from the Political Sociology Section of the ASA, for his article, Contingent Symbiosis and Civil Society in an Authoritarian State: Understanding the Survival of China’s Grassroots NGOs, in the American Journal ofRead more...
Sociologist William Julius Wilson Receives Honorary Doctorate at Yale Commencement
Mon, 05/21/2012
At Yale’s 311th Commencement today, William Julius Wilson, Professor of Sociology at Harvard, was one of nine recipients of honorary doctorates. Wilson, who is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, was honored as Doctor of Social Science for making the study of inequality hisRead more...
Mildred Priest Frank Memorial Prize Awarded to Katherine Giaccone
Fri, 05/04/2012
The 2012 Mildred Priest Frank Memorial Prize has been awarded to Katherine Giaccone. Her Senior Thesis concerns corporate board interlock and the way that this can promote the uptake of corporate social responsibility. Running against the grain of conventional sociological wisdom it suggests thatRead more...
Inaugural "21st Century Dissertation Prize" to Malik Martin, Ph.D. '08
Mon, 04/30/2012
Yale Sociology has created a new award, The 21st Century Dissertation Prize, given from time to time, at the discretion of the department, to a distinguished sociology dissertation that contributes to public policy or the public interest. The inaugural winner is Malik Martin (Ph.D. 2008), for hisRead more...
