Department News

December 6, 2024
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November 20, 2024
“Why are Yale students taking K-pop classes?” The Korea Herald presented an article investigating this question examining Sociology Professor Grace Kao’s course “Race...
October 24, 2024
Professor Grace Kao was featured in an 18-minute-long interview on ABC (Australia)’s afternoon radio program “The Drawing Room.” The segment is titled “From Stars and Stripes...
August 14, 2024
Yale Sociology Assistant Professor Daniel Karell won the American Sociological Association  Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements’ Distinguished Contribution to...
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,...