Department News

December 6, 2013
The Yale Journal of Sociology for 2013 has been released and is now available online from our homepage. As is customary it features items from authors at the two ends of...
December 4, 2013
Professor Andrew Papachristos has published a new op-ed in the Washington Post drawing on his research with Professor Christopher Wildeman on social networks and gun violence...
November 30, 2013
Professor Rene Almeling wrote an op-ed that appeared in Sunday’s New York Times. In it, she argues that the changing technological and economic landscape of sperm donation...
November 26, 2013
A new article in Theory, Culture & Society by Professor Jeff Alexander is out now online ahead of print. In the article, Alexander considers avant-garde theatre as a...
November 22, 2013
“For some whites, saying ‘I voted for Obama’ is like a free pass to discriminate.” Grad student Angela Onwuachi-Willig published an op-ed in the New York Times this week on...
November 18, 2013
A new study on social networks and gun violence by Professors Andrew Papachristos and Christopher Wildeman in the American Journal of Public Health has received great media...
November 9, 2013
Professor Rene Almeling and her colleague Shana Gadarian from Syracuse University have just published the first results of their national survey on genetic testing in...
November 7, 2013
Professor Jonathan Wyrtzen has been elected to the board of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies. Established in 1984, AIMS is a private, non-profit educational...
Chris Wildeman
October 30, 2013
Professor Chris Wildeman has been awarded the 2013 Distinguished New Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Correction and Sentencing. The award...
October 28, 2013
Graduate student Angela Onwuachi-Willig published an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Fisher v. Texas, white privilege, and higher ed. Congratulations, Angela...