Department News

June 14, 2024
Professor Alka Menon’s book, Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards, received the 2024 Book Award from the Section on the Sociology of the...
May 30, 2024
Assistant Professor Ramina Sotoudeh is featured in the current newsletter of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The series “Meet the FAS faculty” provides a way for the Yale...
May 20, 2024
Alex Manning, Ph.D., a lecturer in the Yale Sociology Department, who teaches courses on racism, sports, families, and abolition, was quoted in a recent New York Magazine...
May 20, 2024
At the Yale Black Graduates’ Celebration Alex Manning was nominated and received the “Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award” from the African American Cultural Center (...
May 16, 2024
Assistant Professor of Sociology Escamilla García was featured in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Meet the FAS faculty.
May 13, 2024
Nicholas A. Christakis was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of  distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The academy,...
April 25, 2024
Psychology Today just  just published an article, “Romantic Relationships Turn Off Women More Than Men,” that summarizes a paper by PhD candidates Hannah Tessler and Meera...
March 7, 2024
In an interview in The Conversation Yale Sociologist Elijah Anderson talks about the background of  W.E.B. Du Bois’ groundbreaking study  “The Philadelphia Negro: A Social...
February 14, 2024
Grace Kao has been named a regular contributor to The Korea Herald, the largest English-language newspaper in South Korea. She will write about K-Pop, K-Dramas (and the...
December 19, 2023
BTS,  Korea’s most popular K-pop band is going on hiatus at the height of their career to carry out their compulsory military service, as reported in a story in the BBC...