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April 27, 2011
Dorceta E. Taylor (Yale PhD ’91) is the winner of the 2010 Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American...
April 24, 2011
  The first edition of Habitus is now available online. The theme is The Forum. Edited by Majors Kathleen Powers, Carl Chen and Amy Tsang, Habitus features undergraduate work...
April 21, 2011
Sociology undergraduate major John R. Hall (Saybrook, ‘68) and African Studies major Philip D. Schuyler (Saybrook, ‘68) have posted on YouTube the much-awaited video of the...
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January 7, 2011
Bernice Pescosolido (Yale PhD ‘82) will receive the highest award of the Yale Graduate School, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, on October 4, 2011. The medal is given annually...
December 31, 2010
  HABITUS, a new publication of undergraduate work in the social sciences, with a central focus on sociology, is currently seeking academic papers, essays, pieces on social...
Jeff Swanson
September 7, 2010
Jeff Swanson (PhD, ‘85) is a Duke professor, blogger, and world-class insomniac who hosts a talk show on the web with several Real Americans who look amazingly like him. The...
May 18, 2010
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May 17, 2010
Congratulations to Cara McClellan and Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith, this year’s winners of theMildred Priest Frank Prize. The Mildred Priest Frank Memorial Prize was...
May 17, 2010
  Congratulations to sociology major Andrew Udelsman, winner of this year’s Yale Club of New Haven Richard Hegel Senior Essay Prize for his senior essay “Surviving the...
April 29, 2010
Sociology major Kayle Vinson holds a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship in support of her research. Sociology major Isabel Jijon received a summer travel grant from the...