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Philip Gorski Quoted in NYTimes on New House Speaker

November 2, 2023
Philip Gorski, Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Yale Sociology Department was quoted in the New York Times in a guest essay on the new Speaker...

Professor Rene Almeling's research featured in Wall Street Journal

November 2, 2023
Professor Rene Almeling’s research on eggs and sperm is profiled in a recent Wall Street Journal article on in vitro gametogenesis. You can read the full story here: ...

Graduate Student Anne Taylor wins 2023 British Sociological Association's Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence

October 24, 2023
Anne Taylor is the winner of the 2023 British Sociological Association’s Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence for her paper, “Audience Agency in Social Performance...

Yale News Interviews Alka Menon on new book Refashioning Race

October 5, 2023
In an interview, Yale sociologist Alka Menon discusses her new book, which offers an international perspective on how plastic surgeons respond to — and influence — racialized...

Yale News reports on Rene Almeling's research on Metaphors for Human Fertilization

October 5, 2023
Metaphors for human fertilization are evolving, study shows

Yale's Rourke O'Brien won the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science's 2023 Stephanie Robert Mentoring Award

September 28, 2023
More information abaout IAPHS Award Winners.  

Recent PhD Graduate Eric Feltham Publishes in Nature Human Behaviour

September 27, 2023
Eric Feltham’s article (with co-authors Laura Forastiere, Marcus Alexander, and Nicholas Christakis), “Mass gatherings for political expression had no discernible association...

Sociology PhD Candidate Anne Taylor Nominated for British Sociological Association's SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence

September 5, 2023
Yale Sociology PhD candidate Anne Taylor was nominated for the 2023 British Sociological Association (BSA) SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence.  The prize is an annual...

Yale Sociology Ph.D. candidate Anne Marie Champagne has coedited a volume on Interpreting the Body, recently published in Bristol University Press Series: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology

August 10, 2023
Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter, coedited by Yale sociology doctoral candidate and CCS junior fellow Anne Marie Champagne and Asia Friedman (University of...

Jonathan Wyrtzen's Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Barrington Moore Book Award

August 8, 2023
Jonathan Wyrtzen’s Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2023...