The International Sociological Association has created a new quadrennial award for Excellence in Scholarship and Practice, and its first recipient is Professor Immanuel...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...