The Korea Times (the largest English language newspaper in Korea) published an article about Grace Kao's research on and teaching of K-Pop
Wed, 06/14/2023
Yale professor talks about changes brought by K-pop
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Yale sociology professor visits Korea to discuss the impact of K-pop on Asian American identity
Mon, 06/12/2023
Grace Kao, the IBM Professor of Sociology and Professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration at Yale, traveled to South Korea to present her research at several leading Korean academic institutions on the sociology of music, in particular K-pop and the significance its global popularity holds for AsianRead more...
Yale Sociology Professor Grace Kao quoted in CNN article on race and ethnicity
Mon, 06/12/2023
Sociology Professor Grace Kao interviewed on CNN on the meanings of race and ethnicity.
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Grace Kao interviewed by Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Mon, 06/12/2023
Korean Culture and Information Service interviewed Yale Sociology Professor Grace Kao on her love of and research into K-pop music.
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Jonathan Wyrtzen's book, Worldmaking in the Long Great War, has been awarded the 2023 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award from the International History and Politics section of the American Political Science Association.
Fri, 05/26/2023
Citation from the jury:
“This historically rich, theoretically informed book offers a new history of the making of the modern Middle East in the period 1911 to 1934, from the perspective of the local actors that played crucial roles in shaping that history. It challenges the “Sykes-Picot”Read more...
The Sociology Department congratulates graduating senior Julia Hontaruk-Levko on winning The James Andrew Haas Prize
Mon, 05/22/2023
The James Andrew Haas Prize is a awarded each year to that senior whose breadth of intellectual achievement, strength of character, and fundamental humanity shall be adjudged by the faculty to have provided leadership for his or her fellow students, inspiring in them a love of learning and concernRead more...
Rourke O'Brien has been awarded the 2023 Lex Hixon ’63 Prize.
Fri, 05/05/2023
Rourke O’Brien has been awarded the 2023 Lex Hixon ’63 Prize, given annually by Yale College for teaching excellence in the social sciences. It comes with a stipend and is ”one of the highest honors for teaching that Yale College can bestow.”
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Sociology Welcomes Ramina Sotoudeh
Fri, 04/28/2023
We are pleased to welcome Ramina Sotoudeh. She will be joining us as an Assistant Professor of Sociology with a secondary appointment in Statistics & Data Science, on July 1, 2023. Ramina works on topics related to sociogenomics, culture, health and inequality. What unites these different linesRead more...
Philip V. McHarris Awarded 21st Century Dissertation Prize
Fri, 04/28/2023
It is our pleasure to announce that Philip V. McHarris has been awarded 21st Century Dissertation Prize.
Philip McHarris’ dissertation, High Rise: Poverty, Policing, and Crisis in American Public Housing, has been awarded the Yale Sociology department’s 21st Century Dissertation Prize. The awardRead more...
Hüseyin Raşit Wins 2023 Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize
Thu, 04/27/2023
Hüseyin Raşit’s Ph.D. thesis, Contending Futures in the 21st-Century Middle East: Ideology and the Emergent Political Formations of ISIS, Kurdistan-Iraq and Kurdistan-Syria, has been awarded the Sociology department’s 2023 Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize. The prize has been offered annuallyRead more...
