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 GermanRead 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 toRead more...
Department Graduates Win ASA Paper Prizes
Thu, 07/05/2018
Recent Departmental graduates Shai Dromi (PhD 2016) and Andrew Cohen (PhD 2017) have been awarded the 2018 ASA Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section’s Outstanding Published Article Award for “Advertising Morality: Maintaining moral worth in a stigmatized profession.” The articleRead more...
Recent Graduate William McMillan moves to the University of Connecticut
Thu, 06/28/2018
William McMillan obtained his PhD from Yale Sociology in May 2018. He is departing for the University of Connecticut to be a Humility and Conviction in Public Life Residential Fellow. His dissertation, “Cosmopolitan Calvinists: Global Religion in A Secular Age,” explored the relationship betweenRead more...
2017 PhD Wei Luo off to Stanford
Mon, 06/25/2018
Recent graduate Wei Luo, PhD ‘17, has been appointed as a postdoctoral scholar in Sociology at Stanford University. During the appointment, Luo will be involved in the Civic Life of Cities project at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and also engaged in her personal researchRead more...
Recent PhD Angela Onwuachi-Willig to be Dean of Boston University School of Law
Fri, 06/22/2018
Angela Onwuachi-Willig received her PhD from Yale’s Departments of Sociology and African-American Studies in May 2017. Entitled, “The Trauma of Till and Trayvon,” her thesis considered themes relating to the politics of representation, race, community, violence, and inequality. It developedRead more...
Postdoc Awarded to PhD Graduate Elisabeth Becker
Thu, 06/21/2018
One of our 2018 graduates, Elisabeth Becker, will be taking up a postdoc with the Religion & Its Publics project at the University of Virginia. Funded by the Templeton Foundation, this initiative seeks to bridge the gap between the academic study of religion and public conversations aboutRead more...
Graduation Day 2018
Fri, 05/25/2018
On May 21, 2018 the Department of Sociology was proud to graduate 8 students with a doctoral degree.
Andy Cohen, Wei Luo, Sam Stabler, Elisabeth Becker, Isabel Jijon, Billy McMillan, Michael Sierra-Arevalo and Luke Wagner all received the degree in Woolsey Hall. A reception in the afternoonRead more...
The Global Influence of Deborah Davis in China Studies: Celebrating 40 Years at Yale
Thu, 05/24/2018
Professor Deborah Davis will be retiring at the end of June after 40 years in the Yale Sociology Department. Professor Davis will be much missed. She is is a renowned expert on Chinese culture and society, an award winning teacher and a true citizen of Yale. On May 4 a special event was held atRead more...
Reynolds receives 2018 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
Tue, 05/15/2018
Celene is one of 35 dissertation fellows, selected from a pool of over 400 applicants, who will receive $27,500 to support the final year of writing and also attend professional development retreats. The fellowship program “aims to identify the most talented researchers conducting dissertationRead more...
