Department News

March 20, 2015
Yale sociology alumnus Professor David Weisburd, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has been awarded the Israel Prize in Social work and Criminological research. The...
March 12, 2015
A call for papers has been issued for “Revisiting Remaking Modernity: New Voices in Comparative-Historical Sociology,” to mark the decade since “the landmark volume” edited...
February 27, 2015
Congratulations to Nicholas A. Christakis, Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science, on his appointment as the next master of Silliman College for a five-...
January 28, 2015
Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Yale Law School (127 Wall St, New Haven)  “2015 Stan Wheeler Memorial Jazz Concert” feat. the Yale Jazz Ensemble and the Reunion Jazz...
January 20, 2015
The Economist has featured a story about Justin Farrell’s forthcoming book (to be published by Princeton University Press in June 2015). Assistant Professor Farrell is...
January 13, 2015
Professor Elijah Anderson has published “The White Space,” the lead article for the inaugural issue of the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, a new journal of the American...
January 8, 2015
Wendell Bell, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, has received an Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee...
December 15, 2014
Professor Frederick Wherry is co-editor of a new book series with Jennifer Lena (Teachers College Columbia University) and Greta Hsu (University of California, Davis) at...
December 4, 2014
Research by Professors Julia Adams (Yale) and Hannah Brückner (NYU-Abu Dhabi) on science, gender, and Wikipedia was discussed at NBC News today. Professor Adams was quoted in...
November 30, 2014
The Behavioral Economics Program at the Russell Sage Foundation has awarded a research grant to Sociology Professors Frederick Wherry (Yale), Kristin Seefeldt (University of...