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Anne Marie Champagne Honored with P.E.O Scholar Award

April 4, 2019
Congratulations to Anne Marie Champagne on being selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood for the 2019-2020 academic year. She was sponsored by...

Julia Rozanova, Senior Fellow at the Urban Ethnography Project and Associate Research Scientist at the Yale School of Medicine, receives a 5-year K01 Award from NIDA

April 3, 2019
Julia Rozanova, a Senior Fellow at the Urban Ethnography Project and an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale School of Medicine, just received a 5-year K01 Award from the...

Rene Almeling appointed as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University

April 2, 2019
The sociology department is happy to announce that Associate Professor Rene Almeling has been named one of 36 scholars in the 2019-2020 Class of CASBS fellows. According to...

PhD Candidate Celene Reynolds will be a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University

April 2, 2019
PhD candidate Celene Reynolds will be a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University beginning summer 2019. Her appointment is up to three years. Reynolds is the...

Natalie Aviles TT Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia

March 28, 2019
Natalie Aviles, Presidential Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology,  has a new position as TT Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. “I’m...

Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer Ronald Kwon will be an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of North Texas

March 28, 2019
I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Yale, which was instrumental towards my professional development as a stratification scholar who is interested in the global dynamics of...

UEP & Sociology Postdoctoral Fellow Kalfani Ture will be an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at Quinnipiac University

March 28, 2019
We are pleased to announce that Kalfani N. Ture will be Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at Quinnipiac University starting Fall 2019. His hire...

Isabel Jijon Receives the Department’s 21ST Century Prize

March 26, 2019
The Sociology department recognized Isabel Jijon’s thesis, The Priceless Child on the Global Periphery: Or, How Bolivia Changed its Child Labor Laws, with the 21st Century...

Wei Luo Wins with Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize

March 26, 2019
This year’s Marvin B. Sussman Prize for Best Dissertation has been awarded to Wei Luo for The Entrepreneurial Organization of Finance: The Emergence of Family Banking in...

Alumni Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler Publish in Theory & Society

February 25, 2019
Department alumni Shai Dromi (Harvard University) and Samuel Stabler (Hunter College) published a new co-authored article in Theory & Society. The article examines how...