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February 16, 2012
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Andrew Papachristos will be joining the Sociology faculty this July 1 as Associate Professor. Andy, whose website can be found here http...
February 12, 2012
The Laurel Award is bestowed annually by the board of the Foresight Network for outstanding services to futures thought. The Network’s three thousand members vote on...
Wendell Bell
February 12, 2012
The Laurel Award is bestowed annually by the board of the Foresight Network for outstanding services to futures thought. The Network’s three thousand members vote on...
February 6, 2012
This year’s Hollingshead lecture on “Abundance,” will be presented by Andrew Abbott on Tuesday February 28 from 4-5:30 pm in the Sterling Memorial Lecture Hall (128...
February 4, 2012
Professor Elijah Anderson’s The Cosmopolitan Canopy Has Been Nominated for an NAACP Image Award, under the category of “Outstanding Literary Work: Non-Fiction.” The...
January 25, 2012
Julia Adams spoke at the College de France in Paris, at a January 23 event dedicated to Bourdieu’s posthumously published book Sur L’Etat. Her remarks will be...
January 18, 2012
The Winter 2011 issue of Habitus is out, in hard copy and on line [link here]. As a publication, Habitus was invented and designed by Yale sociology undergraduates, and the...
January 17, 2012
Professor Hunter responded to a New York Times column by Joe Nocera on the “NCAA’s Justice System.” See his letter on Black Student-Athletes here: New York Times >...
December 22, 2011
Elizabeth Breese, currently completing her dissertation in the department, spoke on the current crisis of American journalism, as this fall’s annual Association of Yale...
December 14, 2011
The Sociology department is delighted to announce that Dr. Lloyd Grieger will be joining Sociology and the Jackson Institute for International Affairs as Assistant Professor...