Department News

May 16, 2015
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...
April 30, 2015
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...
April 29, 2015
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...
April 24, 2015
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...
April 20, 2015
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...
April 9, 2015
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...
March 26, 2015
Yale sociology major Abdul-Razak M. Zachariah has been awarded the prestigious Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship to support his research and his commitment to an academic...
March 26, 2015
Professor Andrew V. Papachristos has been appointed to a panel of experts set up by Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy that aims to create policies to reduce crime in...
March 22, 2015
Graduate student Shai Dromi has been selected to receive the Lake Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship to support his research and dissertation writing through 2015-16. The...
March 20, 2015
Professor Rene Almeling has been awarded a two-year grant by the National Science Foundation for her research on medical knowledge-making about men’s reproduction. Using a...