March 2024 News

Sociology Staff Receive 2019 Linda K. Lorimer Award

Thu, 11/14/2019
On November 13th President Salovey and Linda K. Lorimer presented Sociology staff Wyatt Israel, Mark McKnight, Petergaye Murray, Rennie Negron, Liza Nicoll, and School of Medicine staff Samy Galvez a Linda K. Lorimer Award.  The team conducted a large-scale randomized control trial in Honduras to Read more...

The Sociology Department regrets the loss of Charles Perrow

Wed, 11/13/2019
The Sociology Department regrets the loss of Charles Perrow. ‘Chick’ was born in 1925 and gained his PhD from Berkeley in 1960. He joined Yale in 1981 and became Emeritus at Yale in 2000. After his official retirement Chick remained an active member of our departmental community for many years. Read more...

Sociology Chair Grace Kao's work cited in Washington Post Article about new film, "Crazy Rich Asians"

Mon, 08/06/2018
The film “Crazy Rich Asians,” opening in theaters this month, may help to challenge stereotypes about Asian American men as unattractive, according to an article published on August 3, 2018 in the Washington Post. The article cites Grace Kao’s collaborative work (with Kelly Stamper Balistreri Read more...

Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis named Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science

Mon, 07/30/2018
The Sociology Department is pleased to announced that Nicholas A. Christakis was just named as Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. This is the highest honor that Yale bestows on a faculty member. Congratulations, Nicholas! To view the Yale News article, click here. Read more...

Yale Professor of Sociology Jeffrey Alexander Receives Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Theory Award

Sat, 07/21/2018
The Department of Sociology is proud to announce that Jeffrey C. Alexander is the 2018 Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Theory from the International Sociological Association Research Committee 16 (ISA RC16) on Sociological Theory. According to their website, “This award is Read more...

Graduate Student Patrice Collins Receives Two Yale Fellowships and the DESRA Award

Fri, 07/20/2018
Graduate student Patrice Collins has been awarded the Yale University President’s Public Service Fellowship (PPSF), Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Emerging Scholar Award (DESRA), and Dwight Hall Center for Public Service and Social Justice at Yale Graduate Service Fellowship (GSF Read more...

2018 Mildred Priest Frank Award Winner is Josh Feng

Thu, 07/19/2018
The Sociology Department is happy to announce that Josh Feng is the 2018 Winner of the Mildred Priest Frank Award for the best B.A. Thesis. Josh’s thesis was titled, “Bite-Sized Culture: Culinary Performance, Urban Space and Constructions of Novelty in Taipei’s Tonghua (通化) Night Market.” Read more...

CCS Postdoctoral Fellow Elisabeth Becker Publishes Impact Report of Muslim Contributions to New York City

Wed, 07/18/2018
Please check out the CCS website for links to the Muslims for American Progress (MAP) Report, and a timely Huffington Post article quoting Becker which covers the release of this in-depth report: https://ccs.yale.edu/news/elisabeth-becker-publishes-impact-report-muslim-contributions-new-york-city Read more...

PhD Candidate Jean-Baptiste Gallopin Receives the Fox Fellowship and Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship

Fri, 07/13/2018
Jean-Baptiste Gallopin was awarded the Fox Fellowship and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship.  The Fox Fellowship will provide support for an exchange at the Freie Universitat in Berlin, where Jean-Baptiste will do archival, comparative work on the behavior of the East German Read more...

New Chair for Sociology Department: Grace Kao

Wed, 07/11/2018
We are happy to announce that as of July 1, 2018, the new Chair of the Sociology Department is Grace Kao. An expert on race, migration, and education Kao arrived at Yale from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. She will be the first person of color to Chair our Department. In addition to Read more...