Department News

February 17, 2016
Along with Professor Sarah Richardson of Harvard University, Professor Rene Almeling recently published an OpEd in the Boston Globe criticizing the CDC for advising all young...
January 27, 2016
The reasons to select the Yale Sociology Major are highlighted in a new film. The ten-minute video, entitled Sociology at Yale: The Choice Explained, is featured on Yale...
January 15, 2016
Assistant Professor Jonathan Wyrtzen recently published his first book, entitled ’Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity’. Published by Cornell...
January 5, 2016
Recent PhD graduate Jeffrey Guhin ’13 is to join the UCLA Department of Sociology this fall as a tenure-track assistant professor. Jeff will be working alongside recent...
December 10, 2015
The Cambridge Institute on Religion and International Studies selected John Hartley from among leading experts to address the topic “Religious Diplomacy with Iran after the...
November 19, 2015
Professor Andrew Papachristos argues in a New York Times op-ed that network science can be used by law enforcement agencies to predict outbreaks of gun violence. Comparing...
November 17, 2015
Professor Emily Erikson has won the 2015 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award for her book Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757. The annual...
November 4, 2015
As we enter the fall our recent graduates are settling into their new roles at other universities or preparing to leave New Haven to take up new positions. We’d like to...
November 4, 2015
Sociology Chair Professor Philip Smith says, “Our ongoing job search at the Assistant Professor level provides the basis for a special talk series at the Department of...
October 30, 2015
Professor Frederick Wherry discusses the problem of payday loans and banking regulations in an op-ed in the New York Times published yesterday. He argues that banks should be...