Department News

June 12, 2023
Grace Kao, the IBM Professor of Sociology and Professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration at Yale, traveled to South Korea to present her research at several leading Korean...
June 12, 2023
Sociology Professor Grace Kao interviewed on CNN on the meanings of race and ethnicity.
Professor Kao in Korea
June 12, 2023
Korean Culture and Information Service interviewed Yale Sociology Professor Grace Kao on her love of and research into K-pop music.
May 5, 2023
Rourke O’Brien has been awarded the 2023 Lex Hixon ’63 Prize, given annually by Yale College for teaching excellence in the social sciences. It comes with a stipend and...
April 28, 2023
We are pleased to welcome Ramina Sotoudeh. She will be joining us as an Assistant Professor of Sociology with a secondary appointment in Statistics & Data Science, on...
April 28, 2023
It is our pleasure to announce that Philip V. McHarris has been awarded 21st Century Dissertation Prize.   Philip McHarris’ dissertation, High Rise: Poverty, Policing, and...
April 25, 2023
Jeff Alexander, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology makes several appearances - as an “authority on celebrity icons” - in the new, two...
April 13, 2023
Ángel Escamilla García garnered two awards from the Latin American Studies Association. He received the best dissertation award for the Mexico Section for his dissertation, ...
April 6, 2023
Tech Explorist cites a study led by Yale sociologist Daniel Karell, that increased social media activity on “hard-right” platforms, which purport to represent viewpoints not...