Department News

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...
April 19, 2016
Graduate student Michael Sierra-Arévalo recently published a paper analyzing a gun violence reduction program piloted in New Haven, CT. Co-authored with Professor Andrew V....
April 19, 2016
Graduate student Elisabeth Becker has been selected by Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) to receive its 2016 Public Service Award in recognition of her...
April 15, 2016
Congratulations to postdoc Dr. Michael DeLand, who has won the Mel Pollner Award in Ethnomethodology. Dr. DeLand was honored with the $1,000 prize in recognition of his essay...
April 9, 2016
We are delighted to announce that Joscha Legewie will be joining our department from July 1 as an Assistant Professor of Sociology. Legewie gained his PhD in sociology from...