April 2024 News

Profesor Rene Almeling and Graduate Student Adora Svitak Publish Piece on Abortion Access in the San Francisco Chronicle

Tue, 12/13/2022
Read the full piece, titled “There’s still reason to be worried about a national abortion ban,” at this link, or email rene.almeling@yale.edu for a PDF. Read more...

Yale Sterling Professor Elijah Anderson to Keynote Paris Conference on “Rethinking Race,” featuring his recent book, Black in White Space

Tue, 12/06/2022
Yale Sterling Professor Elijah Anderson will be the keynote speaker at the at the University of Chicago Center in Paris, December 13, 2022 Rethinking Race, the Colonial and the Postcolonial in Contemporary France         Read more...

Associate Professor Jonathan Wyrtzen’s latest book, Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2022) wins award.

Thu, 12/01/2022
  Associate Professor Jonathan Wyrtzen’s latest book, Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East (Columbia University Press, 2022) was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book  in Historical International Read more...

Undergrad news

Mon, 11/07/2022
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Research by Emma Zang on racial disparities in number of children women have, highlighted in The Hill.

Fri, 10/28/2022
The Hill reported a story on research led by Emma Zang,  on how race and education intersect to affect how many children women have.  The study published in the journal Population Studies found that Black college-educated women have fewer children on average than white or Hispanic college-educated Read more...

Professor Rene Almeling's book GUYnecology featured at ASA

Tue, 10/04/2022
Professor Rene Almeling’s latest book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health (University of California Press, 2020) was one of fourteen books chosen for a Book Forum session at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in Los Angeles last month Read more...
Mon, 09/19/2022
Professor Rene Almeling’s latest book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health (University of California Press, 2020) was one of fourteen books chosen for a Book Forum session at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in Los Angeles last month Read more...

Newly Added Courses for Fall 2022

Tue, 08/09/2022
The following courses have been added to the Sociology department course list.   Politics and Culture; SOCY 205; Yasmur Karakaya Sports and Society;  SOCY 103; Alex Manning Sociology of Education; SOCY 329; Grace Kao   Read more...

Yagmur Karakaya Appointed as Associate Director of the CCS

Thu, 07/21/2022
CCS Co-Directors Jeffrey Alexander and Philip Smith are pleased to announce that Yale Sociology Assistant Professor Yağmur Karakaya has been appointed  Associate Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology.  More information on the CCS Website at https://ccs.yale.edu/news/yagmur-karakaya- Read more...

A paper examining the effect of remote work on parents' time use patterns written by Thomas Lyttelton (Yale soc PhD), Yale faculty Emma Zang, and Kelly Musick (Cornell) has won an IPUMS Time Use Research Award

Tue, 06/21/2022
The paper Telecommuting and gender inequalities in parents’ paid and unpaid work before and during the COVID-19 pandemic by Thomas Lyttelton, Emma Zang, and Kelly Musick won an IPUMS Time Use Research Award. Lyttelton and colleagues use data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and the Current Read more...