Faculty Awards And Recognition

April 15, 2016
Congratulations to postdoc Dr. Michael DeLand, who has won the Mel Pollner Award in Ethnomethodology. Dr. DeLand was honored with the $1,000 prize in recognition of his essay...
February 18, 2016
Assistant Professor Lloyd Grieger has been awarded a grant worth $143,578 from the Russell Sage Foundation to support research into social inequality. His project, entitled “...
November 17, 2015
Professor Emily Erikson has won the 2015 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award for her book Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757. The annual...
July 2, 2015
Professor Emily Erikson has been awarded the 2015 Ralph Gomory Prize for her recent book ‘Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company’. The prize, given...
March 20, 2015
Professor Rene Almeling has been awarded a two-year grant by the National Science Foundation for her research on medical knowledge-making about men’s reproduction. Using a...
March 20, 2015
Yale sociology alumnus Professor David Weisburd, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has been awarded the Israel Prize in Social work and Criminological research. The...
January 8, 2015
Wendell Bell, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, has received an Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee...
September 9, 2014
Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer Nicholas Hoover Wilson and his colleague Damon Mayrl have been awarded an American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of...
September 7, 2014
Professor Jeffrey Alexander has been named this year’s Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar. He will visit 8 colleges and universities this academic year, spending...
March 7, 2014
This spring, Professor Rene Almeling was invited to deliver the Gray/Wawro Lecture in Gender, Health and Well-Being at Rice University, where she was also awarded the 2014...