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...
Mon, 04/30/2012
April 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.Read more...
Mira Debs Receives 2011 GSAS Community Service Award.
Fri, 04/27/2012
Mira Debs has been chosen as the recipient of the 2011 Community Service Award of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She was recognized for her work associated with the creation of SchoolHaven (http://kidhaven.com/schoolhaven/). The formal presentation is at the Graduate School ConvocationRead more...
Mira Debs Chosen as Recipient of the 2011 Community Service Award of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Fri, 04/27/2012
Mira Debs has been chosen as the recipient of the 2011 Community Service Award of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The student-faculty-staff selection committee was very impressed with her work associated with the creation of SchoolHaven (http://kidhaven.com/schoolhaven/). This is a majorRead more...
Senior Conference 2012
Thu, 04/26/2012
The Senior Conference today saw the graduating class present their original senior thesis work. Topics and methods were varied and an included moral panics in the Swedish media; a network analysis of corporate board interlock; and how high school students in Nebraska select a college. In theRead more...
Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award to Andrew Papachristos
Tue, 04/24/2012
Andrew Papachristos, who joins the department July 1 as Associate Professor, has received the 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 graduateRead more...
Christine Slaughter Awarded Beinecke Library Research Fellowship
Sat, 04/21/2012
Christine Slaughter has been awarded a Research Fellowship at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library for Summer 2012 for her dissertation project, “Making Images Matter: Social Movements and Representational Campaigns.” She will use the Beinecke’s James Weldon Johnson Collection toRead more...
Spring 2012 Habitus Published
Fri, 04/20/2012
The Spring 2012 edition of Habitus was launched today at a party hosted by the editors Amanda Shadiack and Jenny Dai. It is on the theme of “Institutions”. You can find it here >>.
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CCS Annual Conference at New Haven Lawn Club
Mon, 04/16/2012
The CCS Annual Spring Conference will be held on April 27th and 28th at the New Haven Lawn Club. This year’s special session, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Centennial is a highlight of our program. Full program and details are available on the CCS Website: CCS Spring Conference ~Read more...
Dominik Bartmanski (Ph.D. '11) Awarded Department Sussman Award and ISA R16 Junior Theorist Prize
Wed, 04/04/2012
This year’s Marvin B. Sussman Prize for Best Dissertation has been awarded to Dominik Bartmanski for his “How Icons Work: Material Culture and Post-communist Transformation in Berlin and Warsaw, 1989-2009.” The annual departmental prize was created and endowed in 1993 by Marvin Sussman (Ph.DRead more...
