Faculty Awards And Recognition

May 5, 2023
Rourke O’Brien has been awarded the 2023 Lex Hixon ’63 Prize, given annually by Yale College for teaching excellence in the social sciences. It comes with a stipend and...
April 13, 2023
Ángel Escamilla García garnered two awards from the Latin American Studies Association. He received the best dissertation award for the Mexico Section for his dissertation, ...
April 6, 2023
Tech Explorist cites a study led by Yale sociologist Daniel Karell, that increased social media activity on “hard-right” platforms, which purport to represent viewpoints not...
March 29, 2023
Dr. Elijah Anderson, Yale’s Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies and winner of the 2021 Stockholm Prize for Criminology, was recently interviewed...
December 1, 2022
  Associate Professor Jonathan Wyrtzen’s latest book, Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East (Columbia University...
October 4, 2022
Professor Rene Almeling’s latest book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health (University of California Press, 2020) was one of fourteen...
June 21, 2022
The paper Telecommuting and gender inequalities in parents’ paid and unpaid work before and during the COVID-19 pandemic by Thomas Lyttelton, Emma Zang, and Kelly Musick won...
November 3, 2021
The Stockholm Prize in Criminology is the world’s most prestigious award in the field of criminology.  It is awarded to Elijah Anderson, Yale University, USA, for his...
November 3, 2021
Rene Almeling published an opinion piece in the Washington Post outlining the main arguments from her recent book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive...
July 30, 2018
The Sociology Department is pleased to announced that Nicholas A. Christakis was just named as Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. This is...