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...
Yale Sociology Welcomes Matthew Mahler, ACLS New Faculty Fellow
Mon, 03/26/2012
Matthew Mahler, who received his Sociology Ph.D. from SUNY-Stony Brook in 2011, will join the department this July as an ACLS New Faculty Fellow. Matt specializes in the study of American politics and ethnographic methods, and has also published in the areas of social theory and gender andRead more...
Fifth Annual Stan Wheeler Memorial Jazz Concert
Fri, 03/16/2012
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 15, 2012, 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...
Bartmanski Wins ISA R16 Junior Theorist Prize
Fri, 03/09/2012
Dominik Bartmanski (PhD ‘11) has been awarded the Junior Theorist Prize of the International Sociological Association (R16: Sociological Theory) for his article “How to become an iconic social thinker: The intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault” in the European Journal of Social Theory.Read more...
Professor Elijah Anderson Gives IJURR Annual Lecture in New York City
Thu, 03/08/2012
“The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Civility Amid the Faultlines of American Race Relations” was the topic of Professor Elijah Anderson’s lecture to the Association of American Geographers on February 25 in New York City. http://www.ijurr.org/details/news/1491935/2012-IJURR-Lecture-at-the-AAG.html
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