Department News

September 7, 2014
Professor Jeffrey Alexander has been named this year’s Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar. He will visit 8 colleges and universities this academic year, spending...
September 4, 2014
On September 12 Yale will host a symposium, “Money Talks”, on money and the social. Distinguished panelists will present their work on markets, morals, and meanings, and a...
September 4, 2014
Later this month Professor Emily Erikson will give a keynote on “Networks and Early Modern Institutional Change” in Ghent at the Historical Network Research Conference. If...
August 13, 2014
Professor Elijah Anderson published an op-ed in the Washington Post on structural poverty, broken windows policing, and police-community relations. In his essay, titled “What...
July 25, 2014
Graduate student Kristin Plys has a new article out now in the journal World Review of Political Economy. In her article, titled “Financialization, Crisis, and the...
July 14, 2014
Professor Rene Almeling was interviewed this month on NPR’s All Things Considered regarding online sperm donation sites. She talked about using such sites in lieu of...
July 8, 2014
Graduate student Joseph Klett has a new article out now from Sociological Theory. In his piece, titled “Sound on Sound: Situating Interaction in Sonic Object Settings”, Klett...
July 4, 2014
A new article by graduate student Alison Gerber on art, value, and the state is out now at Narratively. In it, Gerber follows an artist’s audit for insight into the...
June 27, 2014
PhD candidate Yingyao Wang’s article “The Rise of the ‘Shareholding State‘: Financialization of Economic Management” has won the EHESS France-Japan Foundation Best...
June 27, 2014
Professor Frederick Wherry has a new essay out now from the Mission Asset Fund, a nonprofit working for a fair financial system, on mobilizing caring relationships to promote...