Department News

Professor Immanuel Wallerstein
August 30, 2013
The International Sociological Association has created a new quadrennial award for Excellence in Scholarship and Practice, and its first recipient is Professor Immanuel...
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/where-have-all-the-women-gone/article5039291.ece?homepage=true
August 25, 2013
Vani Kulkarni, a postdoctoral research associate at the Urban Ethnography Project, together with her colleagues Manoj Pandey and Raghav Gaiha, has published an op-ed in The...
Professor Andrew Papachristos and Professor Tracey Meares
August 2, 2013
In a joint effort between the Yale Department of Sociology and Yale Law School, Professor Andrew Papachristos and Professor Tracey Meares led a workshop on the use of social...
Critical Realisim Conference and Seminar
July 28, 2013
Professor Philip Gorski has organized a major conference on Critical Realism to take place in New York City August 14-15, as well as a summer seminar in New Haven from July...
Nicholas Christakis-Social Sciences-New York Times
July 22, 2013
Professor Nicholas Christakis, co-director of the new Yale Institute for Network Science, has authored an op-ed on the future of the social sciences for the New York Times....
Chicago PD Rolls Out a New Strategy to Stop Violence with Help from Research by Professor Andrew Papachristos
July 22, 2013
The Chicago Police Department has developed a new strategy involving face-to-face meetings and dialogue in an effort to quell gang-related violence, informed by Professor...
Annual Review of Sociology
July 20, 2013
Professor Phil Gorski and PhD student Gülay Türkmen-Dervişoğlu have a new article published in the Annual Review of Sociology on religion, nationalism, and violence. In it...
Children's drawings in a bombed-out, abandoned school in Blue Nile State, Sudan, in April 2013.© Amnesty International
June 13, 2013
Amnesty International released a new report on violence in Sudan by researcher and incoming PhD student Jean-Baptiste Gallopin. Read the press release >> View the full...
May 29, 2013
We are proud to announce that Jenny Shelby has been awarded the Department’s Mildred Priest Frank Award for her senior thesis, “Prescribing Power and The Pill: Medical...
Phd
May 23, 2013
The Department is proud to present Dr. Elizabeth Breese, Dr. Tabitha Decker, Dr. Andrew Junker, Dr. Esther Kim, Dr. Sylvia Mitraud, Dr. Samuel Nelson, and Dr. Michael...