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Elizabeth Breese Speaks at Yale PhD Sesquicentennial

Thu, 12/22/2011
Elizabeth Breese, currently completing her dissertation in the department, spoke on the current crisis of American journalism, as this fall’s annual Association of Yale Alumni assembly marked Yale’s awarding of the first PhD in North America in 1861. The day-long event attended by over 400 Read more...

Lloyd Grieger to Join Department in July 2012

Wed, 12/14/2011
The Sociology department is delighted to announce that Dr. Lloyd Grieger will be joining Sociology and the Jackson Institute for International Affairs as Assistant Professor this July 1st. Dr. Grieger received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Public Policy in 2010 from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Read more...

Habitus Winter Edition Published

Wed, 10/12/2011
  The Winter 2011 edition of Habitus is now available. The editorial team has been expanded to include Amanda Shadiack and Cristina Poindexter. The theme is “Movements”. Essays by Yale undergraduates consider a wide range of themes such as the the global spread of Yoga, anti-vice crusades, the ‘ Read more...

Isaac Reed Publishes Interpretation and Social Knowledge

Sun, 10/02/2011
Isaac Ariail Reed, Yale Ph.D. 2007, has just published Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences with The University of Chicago Press. Isaac is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Read more...

Jeff Swanson Is Joint Recipient of the 2011 Carl Taube Award

Sat, 08/27/2011
Jeffrey Swanson, (Yale Sociology PhD, 1985), and Marvin Swartz, MD, have been selected as joint recipients of the 2011 Carl Taube Award, an honor given by the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA). The prestigious award is presented to scholars who have made Read more...

Julia Adams Elected to SRA Executive Council

Julia P. Adams
Fri, 08/12/2011
Julia Adams will serve for six years on the Executive Council of the Sociological Research Association, culminating in a year (2016-2017) as President of the Association. Read more...

Graduating Seniors Head off to Diverse Futures, Rising Seniors in the Field

Mon, 05/23/2011
  After commencement today our Graduating Sociology Majors went off to various exciting and diverse futures. These included working for a major global corporation in Chicago, entering medical school in New York city, going to graduate school in Sociology, and heading off to Cambridge University in Read more...

Wendell Bell Highlighted in Futures Journal

Wendell Bell
Mon, 05/23/2011
A special issue (vol. 43, issue 6) of the British publication FUTURES (The journal of policy, planning and futures studies) is devoted to articles dealing with, and inspired by, the work of Wendell Bell, Professor Emeritus. A link can be found here to early released digital versions: Science Read more...

Isabel Jijon awarded Mildred Priest Frank Prize

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Fri, 05/20/2011
  The Mildred Priest Frank Prize for this year went to Isabel Jijon. Her thesis, supervised by Professor Smith, was an interview study looking at the impact of soccer in a remote valley in Ecuador. Although poor and isolated this valley has produced a number of professional players who have Read more...

Nate Glasser Awarded Hegel Prize

Wed, 05/18/2011
At a reception at the Peabody Museum yesterday, graduating Senior Nate Glasser collected the Yale Club of New Haven Richard Hegel Senior Essay Prize, for the best Senior Essay in Yale College dealing with New Haven. This prize honors Dick Hegel, who is a past president of the YCNH and a longtime Read more...