Department News

March 3, 2014
Professor Immanuel Wallerstein’s series of lectures in Iran has been covered by the Washington Post, who describes his visit as a sign that Iranian authorities are...
March 1, 2014
Graduate student Jensen Sass, together with coauthor John Dryzek at the Australian National University, has a new article out in the journal Political Theory. In it, Sass and...
February 27, 2014
Professor Elijah Anderson will give a lecture as the keynote speaker of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society’s Speaker Symposia. His talk,...
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:...
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November 20, 2012
Edited by Professor Philip Smith, the 2012 Yale Journal of Sociology is now available on this website, Download the new journal, and past editions here >>sociology/yjs....
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November 12, 2012
The Sociology department congratulates Peter Salovey on his new appointment! See Yale news >>. Salovey, who is currently Yale’s Provost as well as the Chris...
October 16, 2012
Professor Hunter responded to a New York Times column by Kevin Baker, “How the G.O.P. Became the Anti-Urban Party.” See his letter on Republican Attitudes Toward Urban...
October 4, 2012
On Friday October 5, at The Edward Zigler Center on Child Development and Social Policy, Professor Vida Maralani will give a lecture on “From GED to College: Age Trajectories...