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November 22, 2013
“For some whites, saying ‘I voted for Obama’ is like a free pass to discriminate.” Grad student Angela Onwuachi-Willig published an op-ed in the New York Times this week on...
November 18, 2013
A new study on social networks and gun violence by Professors Andrew Papachristos and Christopher Wildeman in the American Journal of Public Health has received great media...
November 9, 2013
Professor Rene Almeling and her colleague Shana Gadarian from Syracuse University have just published the first results of their national survey on genetic testing in...
November 7, 2013
Professor Jonathan Wyrtzen has been elected to the board of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies. Established in 1984, AIMS is a private, non-profit educational...
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 28, 2013
Graduate student Angela Onwuachi-Willig published an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Fisher v. Texas, white privilege, and higher ed. Congratulations, Angela...
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...
October 3, 2013
It is with great sadness that we report Juan Linz’s passing. Juan was a towering figure in 20th-century social science, whose many contributions included the study of...
September 24, 2013
The Washington Post published a new op-ed on isolation, mental illness, and homicide coauthored by Professor Nicholas Christakis. The article argues that we should work to...
September 9, 2013
Graduate student Elisabeth Becker has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation. The grants, which are intended to...