Faculty Awards And Recognition

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...
Andrew Papachristos
May 3, 2013
  A profile story of Associate Professor Andrew Papachristos, entitled, “Integrating Sociology and Public Health to Reduce Homicide and Gun Violence,” appears on the RWJF...
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! ...
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...
Christopher Wildeman
February 18, 2013
  Professor Chris Wildeman’s research on children of the American prison boom prompts a New York Times mention in John Tierney’s “Prison and the Poverty Trap,”...