Department News

June 22, 2018
Angela Onwuachi-Willig received her PhD from Yale’s Departments of Sociology and African-American Studies in May 2017.  Entitled, “The Trauma of Till and Trayvon,” her...
June 21, 2018
One of our 2018 graduates, Elisabeth Becker, will be taking up a postdoc with the Religion & Its Publics project at the University of Virginia.  Funded by the Templeton...
Yale Sociology PhDs 2018
May 25, 2018
On May 21, 2018 the Department of Sociology was proud to graduate 8 students with a doctoral degree.  Andy Cohen, Wei Luo, Sam Stabler, Elisabeth Becker, Isabel Jijon, Billy...
May 14, 2018
As current and future Chairs of this Department we have received many expressions of dismay and concern over recent events on campus. These have come from students and...
IMAGE: Ronald Kwon Headshot
May 11, 2018
The Department of Sociology and the Center for Empirical Research on Stratification & Inequality (CERSI) is delighted to announce that Ronald Kwon will be joining us as a...
Yale Sociology Picture of Grace Kao
May 4, 2018
After a rigorous selection process involving input from faculty and consultations with the FAS Dean’s Office the Sociology Department is delighted to announce that...
August 22, 2017
Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS) visiting scholar Florian Stoll has organized a workshop on August 22nd and 23rd with guests from Africa, Europe and America to discuss his...
July 6, 2017
We are delighted to announce that faculty member Professor Grace Kao has been elected to be Vice-President Elect of the American Sociological Association (http://www.asanet....
June 26, 2017
Sociology graduate students Sarah Brothers, Alex DiBranco, and Tina Law have been announced as 2017-2018 Graduate Policy Fellows at Yale’s Institution for Social and...
June 26, 2017
Graduate student Sam Stabler was elected to the American Sociological Association’s section on  Altruism Morality and Social Solidarity’s council. There he will...