Department News

September 8, 2016
Alumnus Shai Dromi, won the Best Student Paper Award of the Global Transnational Section of the ASA for his paper “For good and country: nationalism and the diffusion of...
August 27, 2016
Assistant Professor Justin Farrell has been honored with Outstanding Published Book Award from the ASA section for Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity for his book “The...
August 24, 2016
Graduate Student Elisabeth Becker Topkara recently published an Op-Ed in the Washington Post Acts of Faith Blog, expressing the hope and fear associated with bringing up a...
August 8, 2016
Graduate student Sara Bastomski recently published an article in the journal Sex Roles concerning women’s experiences of public places. The paper, entitled “Gender,...
August 4, 2016
One of our department’s primary office buildings was part of a Yale campus carbon pricing pilot during the 2015-16 academic year. The six-month experiment, run by the...
July 8, 2016
Associate Professor of Sociology (by courtesy) Marissa King has been awarded tenure at the Yale School of Management. Professor King is an affiliate of the Yale Institute of...
July 8, 2016
Recent PhD grad Shai Dromi has been honored with the Best Graduate Student Paper Award by the American Sociological Association’s Global and Transnational Sociology...
June 27, 2016
Recent graduate Gulay Turkmen-Dervisoglu, PhD ’16, has been appointed as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Goettingen’s Forum for Interdisciplinary Religious...
June 27, 2016
Professor Emily Erikson has been honored by the American Sociological Association’s Section on Rationality and Society for her recent book, Between Monopoly and Free...
June 15, 2016
Seven of our students graduated with PhD degrees at the University Commencement ceremony held on Monday, May 23. A reception was held in the department in their honor....