Professor Philip Smith has taken over from Richard Breen as Chair of the Department of Sociology. His three-year term began on July 1. Richard has returned to Oxford...
Professor Emily Erikson has been awarded the 2015 Ralph Gomory Prize for her recent book ‘Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company’. The prize, given...
Congratulations to all PhD students in our department who graduated this year: Seongsoo Choi, Thomas Crosbie, Alison Gerber, Joseph Klett, Matt Lawrence, Carolyn Ly,...
Graduate students Thomas Lyttelton, Philip McHarris, and Celene Reynolds have been invited to join the Graduate Policy Fellows Program at Yale’s Institution for Social...
Congratulations to sociology major Carla Vásquez-Noriega, who receives the 2015 Mildred Priest Frank Memorial Prize for best senior essay. Her project examined the Section 8...
Political sociologist Patricia Craig will join Yale-NUS College this summer as Dean of the Centre for International and Professional Experience (CIPE) and a Resident Fellow...
Graduate student Celene Reynolds has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her work on how and why the implementation of Title IX has shifted...
Patrimonial Capitalism and Empire, edited by Mounira Charrad (University of Texas-Austin) and Julia Adams, has just been published in the Political Power and Social Theory...
Graduate Student Jonathan Endelman has a new article in this month’s edition of the journal Theory & Society. Using the state of Jordan as a case study, Endelman...
This year’s Marvin B. Sussman Award winner is recent graduate Michael Yarbrough who received the award for his dissertation ‘I Now Declare You’: State Law and the Making of...
