Department News

February 26, 2014
A new issue of the American Journal of Cultural Sociology is out now! The journal, housed in our department, aims to provide a space where cultural sociologists can follow...
February 25, 2014
Graduate student Elisabeth Becker just published a new article on Albanian Kosovars in Little Italy in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies. In it, she develops the concept...
February 24, 2014
Recent graduate Samuel Nelson and Professor Philip Gorski have a new article out in the journal International Sociology, titled “Conditions of religious belonging:...
January 21, 2014
Professor Marcus Anthony Hunter has published a new op-ed in the Washington Post. In it he reviews voting rights in the U.S. since 1965, considers the way forward, and argues...
January 12, 2014
Graduate student Candas Pinar has a new article out in the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. In it, she argues that unifying notions of Islam often undermine meaningful...
January 10, 2014
The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Paul DiMaggio will deliver this year’s Hollingshead Lecture, titled “Analyzing Environments of Representation: Using...
Jean-Baptiste Gallopin
December 27, 2013
Graduate Student Jean-Baptiste Gallopin recently appeared on France24 news as a political analyst and Sudanese specialist, speaking on the conflict in South Sudan. Watch his...
Shai Dromi
December 27, 2013
Graduate student Shai Dromi just published new research in the journal Sociological Inquiry on the communicative functions of money in the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. In it...
December 23, 2013
An op-ed on gun violence written collectively by Yale’s new “Guns in the United States” course has been published in the Hartford Courant. The course was led by...
elijah Anderson
December 11, 2013
Professor Elijah Anderson was invited to deliver a keynote address about the case of Trayvon Martin at the recent meeting of the American Society of Criminology. In his talk...