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May 5, 2023
Rourke O’Brien has been awarded the 2023 Lex Hixon ’63 Prize, given annually by Yale College for teaching excellence in the social sciences. It comes with a stipend and...
April 28, 2023
We are pleased to welcome Ramina Sotoudeh. She will be joining us as an Assistant Professor of Sociology with a secondary appointment in Statistics & Data Science, on...
April 28, 2023
It is our pleasure to announce that Philip V. McHarris has been awarded 21st Century Dissertation Prize.   Philip McHarris’ dissertation, High Rise: Poverty, Policing, and...
April 27, 2023
Hüseyin Raşit’s Ph.D. thesis, Contending Futures in the 21st-Century Middle East: Ideology and the Emergent Political Formations of ISIS, Kurdistan-Iraq and Kurdistan-Syria...
April 25, 2023
Jeff Alexander, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology makes several appearances - as an “authority on celebrity icons” - in the new, two...
April 18, 2023
Students in the Data and Society concentration gain a broad understanding of the methods used to analyze systematic features of social behavior and the wide range of possible...
April 13, 2023
Ángel Escamilla García garnered two awards from the Latin American Studies Association. He received the best dissertation award for the Mexico Section for his dissertation, ...
April 6, 2023
Philip S. Gorski, the Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Yale University and co-author of the 2022 book “The Flag and the Cross: White...
April 6, 2023
Tech Explorist cites a study led by Yale sociologist Daniel Karell, that increased social media activity on “hard-right” platforms, which purport to represent viewpoints not...
March 29, 2023
Dr. Elijah Anderson, Yale’s Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies and winner of the 2021 Stockholm Prize for Criminology, was recently interviewed...