March 2024 News

Dorceta E. Taylor Wins the 2010 Allan Schnaiberg Award

Wed, 04/27/2011
Dorceta E. Taylor (Yale PhD ’91) is the winner of the 2010 Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association for her book “Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Read more...

Habitus Launches Inaugural Issue

Sun, 04/24/2011
  The first edition of Habitus is now available online. The theme is The Forum. Edited by Majors Kathleen Powers, Carl Chen and Amy Tsang, Habitus features undergraduate work on sociological themes from around the university. Read more...

“Strip Vision of the End,” performed by John Hall and Philip Schuyler

Thu, 04/21/2011
Sociology undergraduate major John R. Hall (Saybrook, ‘68) and African Studies major Philip D. Schuyler (Saybrook, ‘68) have posted on YouTube the much-awaited video of the performance drawn from their digital and textual collaborative composition, “Strip Vision of the End.” The performance took Read more...

Bernice Pescosolido will receive the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal

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Fri, 01/07/2011
Bernice Pescosolido (Yale PhD ‘82) will receive the highest award of the Yale Graduate School, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, on October 4, 2011. The medal is given annually by the Graduate School Alumni Association to a small number of distinguished alumni. It recognizes outstanding achievement in Read more...

New Undergrad Publication Requests Submissions

Fri, 12/31/2010
  HABITUS, a new publication of undergraduate work in the social sciences, with a central focus on sociology, is currently seeking academic papers, essays, pieces on social theory, film and book reviews as well as images for their inaugural issue. For more details, or to submit, please click here, Read more...

Blinding Insights Interviews with Jeff Swanson

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Tue, 09/07/2010
Jeff Swanson (PhD, ‘85) is a Duke professor, blogger, and world-class insomniac who hosts a talk show on the web with several Real Americans who look amazingly like him. The show features trenchant social and political commentary from Jimmy Jay Viras, the nation’s most plainspoken country Read more...

Senior Conference and Dinner Image Gallery Online

Tue, 05/18/2010
  Visit the gallery by clicking this link. Read more...

Cara McClellan and Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith Win 2010 Mildred Priest Frank Prize

Mon, 05/17/2010
Congratulations to Cara McClellan and Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith, this year’s winners of theMildred Priest Frank Prize. The Mildred Priest Frank Memorial Prize was established by Adam R. Rose, ’81, in honor of his maternal grandmother. It is awarded each year to the graduating senior whose work Read more...

Andrew Udelsman Wins 2010 Richard Hegel Senior Essay Prize

Mon, 05/17/2010
  Congratulations to sociology major Andrew Udelsman, winner of this year’s Yale Club of New Haven Richard Hegel Senior Essay Prize for his senior essay “Surviving the Forest: Ethnography of New Haven’s Tent City.” Dick Hegel, whom the prize honors, is a past president of the YCNH and a Read more...

Kayle Vinson and Isabel Jijon are recognized with Fellowship and Travel Grant Awards

Thu, 04/29/2010
Sociology major Kayle Vinson holds a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship in support of her research. Sociology major Isabel Jijon received a summer travel grant from the Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies. Congratulations to both! Read more...