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 aRead 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!
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Thomas Meyer Awarded Yale Research Fellowship
Wed, 04/28/2010
Congratulation to sociology major Thomas Meyer, who is the a recipient of a 2010 Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The fellowship will support his research project on code-switching among American soldiers engaged in counterinsurgent warfare.
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Applicatons Open for the Justice Carlos R. Moreno Prize
Thu, 04/22/2010
Established in the fall of 2009, the Justice Carlos R. Moreno Prize will be awarded to the best senior essay on the Latino/a experience in the U.S. A faculty committee chaired by Professor Stephen Pitti will select the winner who will be announced during graduation ceremonies. To apply for theRead more...
Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith Receives Marshall Scholarship
Sat, 12/26/2009
Congratulations to Sociology Major Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith ‘10 for a Marshall scholarship! TheMarshall Scholarships were established in 1953 as a British gesture of thanks to the people of the United States for the assistance received after the Second World War under the Marshall Plan. Financed byRead more...
Mikkel Kruger Krenchel Receives Mildred Priest Frank Prize
Tue, 05/26/2009
Congratulations to Mikkel Kruger Krenchel ‘09, majoring in sociology and International Studies, who received the 2009 Mildred 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 theRead more...
All Our Kin Conference Offers Advance Registration for Roundtables
Fri, 04/03/2009
This spring marks the 35th anniversary of the publication of All Our Kin, Carol Stack’s path-breaking ethnography of the survival strategies of African-American women living in poverty in urban America. A conference honoring the legacy of Stack’s work will be held at Yale University MayRead more...
Patri Friedman at Yale on Wednesday at 7:30pm in WLH119
Tue, 03/03/2009
Bio: Patri Friedman, grandson of Milton Friedman and executive director of the Seasteading Institute. Friedman is a computer scientist, visionary entrepreneur, and advocate for floating homesteads (“seasteads”) around the world’s oceans as a kind of global experiment in distributed politicalRead more...
Sociology Student Advisory Committee Forming
Sun, 03/01/2009
What it is [from ycc website]: In most departments, the DUS organizes and chairs an advisory committee that includes students and that meets at regular intervals during the year to review aspects of the department’s undergraduate curriculum as it affects both majors and nonmajors. TypicallyRead more...