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Alka Menon’s Research has been Profiled in Yale News

April 18, 2019
Professor Alka Menon’s research has been profiled in Yale News. The article highlights the transnational dimensions of cosmetic surgery by focusing on the U.S. and Malaysia....

Reynolds Awarded 2019 Graduate Student Paper Prize from ASA's Sociology of Law Section

April 18, 2019
PhD candidate Celene Reynolds has received the 2019 Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of of Law Section. The paper, “...

Ph.D. Candidate Jean-Baptiste Gallopin wrote about the Revolutionary Uprising in Sudan for The Monkey Cage

April 17, 2019
Ph.D. candidate Jean-Baptiste Gallopin wrote on 10 April about the revolutionary uprising in Sudan for The Monkey Cage, a blog of social scientists on The Washington Post. “...

Race, Poverty, and the Irregular Economy: A Seminar with Elijah Anderson

April 16, 2019
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia hosted a seminar on Race, Poverty, and the Irregular Economy with Elijah Anderson on Friday, April 12, in Philadelphia. At the...

Yale Sterling Professor Elijah Anderson Gave the Keynote Address, “Black in White Space,” at Harvard University’s Kennedy School

April 9, 2019
Yale Sterling Professor Elijah Anderson gave the keynote address, “Black in White Space,” at Harvard University’s Kennedy School’s recent conference on Municipal Innovation,...

Nicholas Christakis’s book Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society makes the New York Times Bestseller List

April 8, 2019
In the book Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of  a Good Society Nicholas proposes that the human capacity for cooperation and empathy derives from an “evolutionary...

Xiaohong Xu GRD ’14 Moving to the University of Michigan

April 5, 2019
Xiaohong Xu has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Michigan, where he will be Assistant Professor of Sociology. Professor Xu’s work focuses on large-scale...

Anne Marie Champagne Honored with P.E.O Scholar Award

April 4, 2019
Congratulations to Anne Marie Champagne on being selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood for the 2019-2020 academic year. She was sponsored by...

Julia Rozanova, Senior Fellow at the Urban Ethnography Project and Associate Research Scientist at the Yale School of Medicine, receives a 5-year K01 Award from NIDA

April 3, 2019
Julia Rozanova, a Senior Fellow at the Urban Ethnography Project and an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale School of Medicine, just received a 5-year K01 Award from the...

PhD Candidate Celene Reynolds will be a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University

April 2, 2019
PhD candidate Celene Reynolds will be a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University beginning summer 2019. Her appointment is up to three years. Reynolds is the...