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May 23, 2011
  After commencement today our Graduating Sociology Majors went off to various exciting and diverse futures. These included working for a major global corporation in Chicago...
Wendell Bell
May 23, 2011
A special issue (vol. 43, issue 6) of the British publication FUTURES (The journal of policy, planning and futures studies) is devoted to articles dealing with, and inspired...
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May 20, 2011
  The Mildred Priest Frank Prize for this year went to Isabel Jijon. Her thesis, supervised by Professor Smith, was an interview study looking at the impact of soccer in a...
May 18, 2011
At a reception at the Peabody Museum yesterday, graduating Senior Nate Glasser collected the Yale Club of New Haven Richard Hegel Senior Essay Prize, for the best Senior...
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...