In 2019, while a Yale Sociology Ph.D. candidate, Alex DiBranco (‘22) founded the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS), comprised of “a team of predominantly...
Patrice Collins’ 2022 dissertation, ‘Everybody is Locked Up’: Families with Incarcerated Loved Ones, is an outstanding ethnographic study that renders and explains the ways...
Social network analysis has provided foundational insights into the nature of human sociality and has been used to understand and improve diverse policy outcomes. A common...
We sadly announce that Xiaohong Xu (PhD 2014) passed away on December 12 in Ann Arbor, surrounded by family and friends following a long struggle with cancer. He was 45...
Eric Feltham’s article (with co-authors Laura Forastiere, Marcus Alexander, and Nicholas Christakis), “Mass gatherings for political expression had no discernible association...
It is our pleasure to announce that Philip V. McHarris has been awarded 21st Century Dissertation Prize.
Philip McHarris’ dissertation, High Rise: Poverty, Policing, and...
Alison Gerber, Assistant Professor in sociology at Lund University, was one of 6 new prominent researchers elected to the Young Academy of Sweden. The Young Academy of Sweden...
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...
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...
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...