April 2024 News

Grace Kao was the subject of an article titled: 专访|高玉蘋谈韩流研究与教学:一名耶鲁社会学家的思考

Mon, 01/24/2022
(”Interview|Grace Kao on Hallyu Research and Teaching: Reflections of a Yale Sociologist” in The Paper (Peng Pai), a Chinese news outlet based in Shanghai.  https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_16318885 Read more...

Assistant Professor Emma Zang publishes Op-Ed in the Hill

Thu, 01/06/2022
Emma Zang published an Op-Ed in the Hill on Remote Work “Remote work is a saving grace — and can increase productivity.”  Read the article here. Read more...

Sterling Professor Elijah Anderson awarded the 2021 Stockholm Prize in Criminology.

Wed, 11/03/2021
The Stockholm Prize in Criminology is the world’s most prestigious award in the field of criminology.  It is awarded to Elijah Anderson, Yale University, USA, for his ethnographic observations and analysis of mechanisms behind violence in socially, economically and ethnically segregated areas that Read more...

Professor Rene Almeling publishes essay in the Washington Post

Wed, 11/03/2021
Rene Almeling published an opinion piece in the Washington Post outlining the main arguments from her recent book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health (University of California Press, 2020). You can read the essay here. Read more...

Student Research Article

Thu, 10/28/2021
Yale Sociology Ph.D. student Jiwon Yun has a new article in the  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Entitled “Singing, moving and laughing together: engaging the senses for a cosmopolitan atmosphere” the research article demonstrates how cosmopolitanism can be constructed as an affective Read more...

New Op-Ed by Assistant Professor Emma Zang on Remote Work and Family Care for Immigrants

Fri, 10/22/2021
Sociology Assistant Professor Emma Zang has a new Op-Ed in the The Hill on how Remore Work might help solve family care crisis for immigrants. Read more...

Visiting Lecturer Anjanette Chan Tack will be joining the Sociology Department for the Spring 2022 semester

Wed, 10/13/2021
On January 1, 2022, Anjanette Chan Tack will be joining the  Sociology Department for the Spring 2022 semester as a Visiting Lecturer through Yale’s Presidential Visiting Fellowship Program. Read more...

Faculty Award

Wed, 09/22/2021
Emma Zang has been awarded a 2 year NIH R21 award ($472,884) to apply her Bayesian trajectory models to study the linked health trajectories of persons with cognitive impairment and their caregivers. Read more...

Tony Cheng Awarded the 2021 21st Century Prize

Fri, 05/21/2021
The 2021 21st Century Dissertation Prize in the Department of Sociology has been awarded to Dr. Tony Cheng. His dissertation is titled “Policing and the Illusion of Public Input.” The award is given to a sociology graduate student whose dissertation contributes to public policy or the public Read more...

Thomas Lyttelton Receives the 2021 Marvin B. Sussman Award

Fri, 05/21/2021
The 2021 Marvin B. Sussman Best Dissertation Award in the Department of Sociology has been awarded to Dr. Thomas Lyttelton. The title of his dissertation is Work, Sociability, And Inequality. In a quantitative analysis of time use data, Lyttelton shows how mundane sociability with colleagues varies Read more...