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Sociology Professor Ángel Escamilla García featured in Yale FAS News

May 16, 2024
Assistant Professor of Sociology Escamilla García was featured in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Meet the FAS faculty.

Patrice D. Collins is the 2024 winner of the Yale Sociology department's 21st Century Dissertation Prize, for her dissertation 'Everybody is Locked Up': Families with Incarcerated Loved Ones.

May 14, 2024
Patrice Collins’ 2022 dissertation, ‘Everybody is Locked Up’: Families with Incarcerated Loved Ones, is an outstanding ethnographic study that renders and explains the ways...

Eric Martin Feltham is the 2024 winner of the Yale Sociology Department's Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize, for his dissertation "Cognizing Social Networks"

May 14, 2024
Social network analysis has provided foundational insights into the nature of human sociality and has been used to understand and improve diverse policy outcomes.  A common...

Yale faculty member Nicholas A. Christakis elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences

May 13, 2024
Nicholas A. Christakis was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of  distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The academy,...

Psychology Today published an article, “Romantic Relationships Turn Off Women More Than Men,” that summarizes a paper by PhD candidates Hannah Tessler and Meera Choi, and Grace Kao

April 25, 2024
Psychology Today just  just published an article, “Romantic Relationships Turn Off Women More Than Men,” that summarizes a paper by PhD candidates Hannah Tessler and Meera...

Sociology Professor Grace Kao Honored as 2024 Graduate Mentor Award Recipient for Social Sciences

April 25, 2024
Each year the Graduate School honors faculty members at Convocation for their exemplary qualities as mentors, who have shown outstanding commitment to advising and student...

Scott Boorman Published New Book

April 1, 2024
Professor Scott Boorman published a new book Three Faces of Sun Tzu.  Sun Tzu’s Art of War is widely regarded as the most influential military and strategic classic of...

Elijah Anderson Explains Importance of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Study ‘The Philadelphia Negro.’

March 7, 2024
In an interview in The Conversation Yale Sociologist Elijah Anderson talks about the background of  W.E.B. Du Bois’ groundbreaking study  “The Philadelphia Negro: A Social...

Grace Kao has been named a regular contributor to The Korea Herald, the largest English-language newspaper in South Korea.

February 14, 2024
Grace Kao has been named a regular contributor to The Korea Herald, the largest English-language newspaper in South Korea. She will write about K-Pop, K-Dramas (and the...

Sociology Student Kayla Thomas Reflects on the Value a Graduate Policy Fellowship with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Brought Her

December 21, 2023
Being an ISPS policy fellow gave Kayla Thomas the opportunity for interdisciplinary feedback on her research on how residents in her home of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, N.Y.,...