Department News

Christopher Wildeman
April 30, 2013
  Professor Chris Wildeman has received this year’s Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award. The award recognizes outstanding scholarly contributions to the discipline of...
Deborah Davis
April 29, 2013
  Professor Deborah Davis is this year’s winner of Yale’s coveted Lex Hixon ‘63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences. Congratulations, Debbie! ...
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April 23, 2013
  On May 3-4, the Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS) will hold its annual spring conference. This year’s program, Cultural Analysis and Complex Phenomena, includes a...
Mayor Michael Nutter
April 23, 2013
  Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia, in an invited lecture under the auspices of Professor Elijah Anderson’s Urban Ethnography Project, spoke to a gathering of Yale...
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April 11, 2013
  President-Elect Peter Salovey announced today that Yale will establish an interdisciplinary Institute of Network Science. YINS will be co-directed by sociologist and...
Elijah Anderson
April 1, 2013
The Iconic Ghetto: A Reference Point for the New American Colour Line will be the topic of Professor Elijah Anderson’s Plenary Address to the annual British...
Charles Camic
March 27, 2013
  Today the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library celebrated the acquisition of the Bradford H. Gray Collection in the History of Social Thought with a luncheon, talk,...
Black Citymkers
March 1, 2013
  Professor Marcus Hunter’s new book, Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America, has just been published by Oxford University Press. The book...
Yale Jazz Ensemble
February 28, 2013
  The Stan Wheeler Memorial Jazz Concert, a springtime tradition to honor the memory of beloved professor and jazz musician, Stan Wheeler, will be held on Sunday, April 7,...
Almeling-Chronicle
February 19, 2013
  Professor Rene Almeling’s research on egg and sperm donation is featured in an article published today in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Titled “The Student Body...