Faculty Awards And Recognition

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...
Chris Wildeman
October 30, 2013
Professor Chris Wildeman has been awarded the 2013 Distinguished New Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Correction and Sentencing. The award...
October 24, 2013
  Assistant Professors of Sociology Rene Almeling and Marcus Hunter have won prestigious Yale College prizes this year, in recognition of their achievements in research and...
September 3, 2013
Professor Jeff Alexander will receive an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin this week. In honor of his award, a daylong workshop, “Is Civil Society the Good...
September 2, 2013
Professors Julia Adams and Hannah Brueckner (Associate Dean of Social Science, NYU-Abu Dhabi) have been awarded a two-year National Science Foundation grant for collaborative...
Professor Immanuel Wallerstein
August 30, 2013
The International Sociological Association has created a new quadrennial award for Excellence in Scholarship and Practice, and its first recipient is Professor Immanuel...