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PhD Candidate and CCS Junior Fellow Till Hilmar will be a Faculty Member at SOCIUM

August 5, 2019
PhD candidate and CCS Junior Fellow Till Hilmar will be a faculty member at SOCIUM (Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy) and the department of sociology at Bremen...

Till Hilmar Publishes Article in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

August 5, 2019
Graduate student Till Hilmar recently published an article entitled “The Temporal Logic of Deservingness: Inequality Beliefs in Two Postsocialist Societies“ in the journal...

Celene Reynolds Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University

July 17, 2019
Celene Reynolds is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. She is also an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Inequality and a Postdoctoral Associate...

PhD Candidate Sarah Brothers has won the 2019 Bruce D. Johnson Student Paper Award

June 28, 2019
PhD candidate Sarah Brothers has won the 2019 Bruce D. Johnson Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association’s Alcohol, Drugs, and Crime Section. The paper...

Profs. Issa Kohler-Hausmann and Michael Yarbrough Win Law & Society Association Book and Article Prizes

May 30, 2019
Issa Kohler-Hausmann, Associate Professor of Yale Law and Sociology, was awarded the 2019 Herbert Jacob Book Prize for her book Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social...

Yavas Published in the Journal of Mathematical Sociology

May 29, 2019
Graduate student Mustafa Yavas recently published an article entitled “Dissecting income segregation: Impacts of concentrated affluence on segregation of poverty,” in the...

Professor Erikson Receives Honorable Mention, The Section on Economic Sociology’s Granovetter Award for Best Article in Economic Sociology, 2019

May 16, 2019
Professor Erkson and co-author, Mark Hamilton, received honorable mention from The Section on Economic Sociology’s Granovetter Award for Best Article in Economic...

PhD Candidate Nicholas Occhiuto will be a Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Organizational Behavior at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations

May 10, 2019
PhD Candidate Nicholas Occhiuto will be a Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Organizational Behavior at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor...

Mira Debs has book Published by Harvard Education Press

May 1, 2019
Mira Debs, Sociology Lecturer and Executive Director of Education Studies, just had her book Diverse Families, Desirable Schools: Public Montessori in the Era of School...

Hirokazu Shirado will be an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University

April 29, 2019
Hirokazu Shirado, completing his doctoral program this May, will be an assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at...