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April 26, 2012
The Senior Conference today saw the graduating class present their original senior thesis work. Topics and methods were varied and an included moral panics in the Swedish...
April 24, 2012
Andrew Papachristos, who joins the department July 1 as Associate Professor, has received the Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award. The award recognizes outstanding...
April 21, 2012
Christine Slaughter has been awarded a Research Fellowship at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library for Summer 2012 for her dissertation project, “Making Images...
April 20, 2012
The Spring 2012 edition of Habitus was launched today at a party hosted by the editors Amanda Shadiack and Jenny Dai. It is on the theme of “Institutions”. You can find it...
April 16, 2012
The CCS Annual Spring Conference will be held on April 27th and 28th at the New Haven Lawn Club. This year’s special session, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life...
April 4, 2012
This year’s Marvin B. Sussman Prize for Best Dissertation has been awarded to Dominik Bartmanski for his “How Icons Work: Material Culture and Post-communist...
March 26, 2012
Matthew Mahler, who received his Sociology Ph.D. from SUNY-Stony Brook in 2011, will join the department this July as an ACLS New Faculty Fellow. Matt specializes in the...
March 16, 2012
The Stan Wheeler Memorial Jazz Concert, a springtime tradition to honor the memory of beloved professor and jazz musician, Stan Wheeler, will be held on Sunday, April 15,...
March 9, 2012
Dominik Bartmanski (PhD ‘11) has been awarded the Junior Theorist Prize of the International Sociological Association (R16: Sociological Theory) for his article “How to...
March 8, 2012
 “The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Civility Amid the Faultlines of American Race Relations” was the topic of Professor Elijah Anderson’s lecture to the Association of American...