After a rigorous selection process involving input from faculty and consultations with the FAS Dean’s Office the Sociology Department is delighted to announce that Grace Kao will be the next Chair of Sociology. Her appointment starts July 1. Phil Smith, who has been Chair for the past threeRead more...
Rasit Awarded DAAD Research Grant
Tue, 04/24/2018
Graduate student Huseyin Rasit has been awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research Grant for his PhD research. Huseyin’s dissertation, entitled “State-Seeking, Ethnicity, and Religion: Emergent Political Formations in the 21st-Century Middle East,” examines competing state/society-Read more...
CCS Visitor Florian Stoll hosts Book Workshop on Social Milieus in Kenya's "Middle-Class"
Tue, 08/22/2017
Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS) visiting scholar Florian Stoll has organized a workshop on August 22nd and 23rd with guests from Africa, Europe and America to discuss his planned publication on sociocultural diverse milieus (lifestyle groups) in Kenya’s “middle-class”.
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Alumnus Shai M. Dromi received Honorable Mention for the Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award
Thu, 07/06/2017
Shai M. Dromi received an honorable mention from the ASA Comparative-Historical Section’s 2017 Theda Skocpol Best Dissertation Award committee. Shai’s project is titled The Religious Roots of Transnational Relief: Calvinism, Humanitarianism, and the Genesis of Social Fields. It examines theRead more...
Kao ASA Vice-President Elect
Thu, 07/06/2017
We are delighted to announce that faculty member Professor Grace Kao has been elected to be Vice-President Elect of the American Sociological Association (http://www.asanet.org/news-events/asa-news/results-2017-asa-election). Said Grace: “I am excited to serve the American Sociological AssociationRead more...
Kao Wins ASA Section on Asia and Asian America Contribution to the Field Award for 2017
Mon, 06/26/2017
Professor Grace Kao has won the American Sociological Association’s Section on Asia and Asian America Contribution to the Field Award for 2017. Kao was unanimously selected for the award with the selection committee citing her “illustrious accomplishments in the areas of research, teaching,Read more...
New ISPS Policy Fellows Announced
Mon, 06/26/2017
Sociology graduate students Sarah Brothers, Alex DiBranco, and Tina Law have been announced as 2017-2018 Graduate Policy Fellows at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies, where they will conduct policy-relevant projects on domestic issues. Sarah Brothers’ ISPS research examines howRead more...
Stabler Elected Student Representative to ASA Section Council
Mon, 06/26/2017
Graduate student Sam Stabler was elected to the American Sociological Association’s section on Altruism Morality and Social Solidarity’s council. There he will serve as a student representative. Stabler commented “My dissertation focuses on the links between religion and theRead more...
Shirado and Christakis Published in Nature
Mon, 05/22/2017
Graduate student Hirokazu Shirado and Professor Nicholas Christakis recently published an article entitled “Locally noisy autonomous agents improve global human coordination in network experiments” in Nature. The study showed that introducing robotic software agents into human co-ordination gamesRead more...
Yale PhD Elizabeth Roberto recently won the Sussman Award for 2017 for her dissertation:
Sun, 05/21/2017
‘The Boundaries of Spatial Inequality: Three Essays on the Measurement and Analysis of Residential Segregation.’ The Sussman Award is given to the graduate student whose dissertation in the past two years is judged to be the most outstanding. Liz introduces a new index for measuring segregation andRead more...
