Department News

June 13, 2016
PhD candidate Celene Reynolds has won the 2016 Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Sex and Gender Section for her article “The Mobilization of Title IX in...
June 8, 2016
Graduate student Sarah Brothers has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to support her PhD research. Sarah’s dissertation is...
June 7, 2016
Two faculty members have been elected to leadership positions in the American Sociological Association’s Economic Sociology Section. Professor Fred Wherry was voted in...
June 7, 2016
PhD student Mira Debs has been appointed as the first post-doctoral fellow in Yale’s new Education Studies program. The year-long postdoc, beginning in January 2017,...
June 6, 2016
  Justin Farrell, Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, with a secondary appointment in our department, has won the ASA...
May 16, 2016
Lloyd Grieger, assistant professor of sociology and a Jackson faculty member, has received the Lex Hixon ’63 Prize, one of Yale’s 2016 Faculty Teaching Prizes, for teaching...
May 6, 2016
Matt Andersson, a postdoctoral fellow, is to take up a position as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Baylor University in the fall. Much of Matt’s work focuses on...
April 30, 2016
PhD candidate Shai Dromi has a new paper out in a special issue of The Sociological Review. The article is entitled ‘For good and country: nationalism and the diffusion of...
April 30, 2016
PhD candidate Shai Dromi has been appointed as a Lecturer on Sociology at Harvard University starting in Fall 2016. He will be teaching courses on philanthropy, humanitarian...
April 30, 2016
Graduate student Celene Reynolds has been awarded a grant from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for her dissertation research, “From Unequal Play to Unwanted Contact...