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Jean-Baptiste Gallopin Interviewed on France 24

January 3, 2019
Yale Sociology Ph.D. candidate Jean-Baptiste Gallopin appeared on France 24 on January 2, 2019 to discuss the current wave of protests in Sudan. Gallopin’s research examines...

Elijah Anderson appointed as the Sterling Professor of Sociology

November 8, 2018
The Sociology Department is excited to announce that Professor Elijah Anderson was recently named as Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies. This is...

Demar Lewis named Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar

October 11, 2018
The Sociology Department is thrilled to announce that Demar Lewis, a 2nd year PhD student in Sociology and African American Studies was named as a Robert Wood Johnson Health...

Editorial in the New York Times by Sociology Lecturer and Education Studies Executive Director Mira Debs

September 24, 2018
Mira Debs’ editorial about how to most effectively allocate Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ $2 billion dollar commitment to Montessori Pre-Schools for low-income students was...

Welcome to the First Year Cohort

September 4, 2018
Welcome to our incoming Sociology Ph.D. students – (l to r) Hannah Tessler, Dorothy Wu, Keitaro Okura, Benjamin Kaplow, Kayla Thomas and Jeffrey Sachs (not pictured).

Sociology Chair Grace Kao Appointed the IBM Professor of Sociology

August 14, 2018
Congratulations to Grace Kao for being recently appointed as the IBM Professor of Sociology. Read more here.

Professor Elijah Anderson is the Recipient of the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association

August 14, 2018
The Sociology Department is proud to announce that Elijah Anderson received the 2018 W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological...

Sociology Chair Grace Kao's work cited in Washington Post Article about new film, "Crazy Rich Asians"

August 6, 2018
The film “Crazy Rich Asians,” opening in theaters this month, may help to challenge stereotypes about Asian American men as unattractive, according to an article published on...

Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis named Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science

July 30, 2018
The Sociology Department is pleased to announced that Nicholas A. Christakis was just named as Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. This is...

Yale Professor of Sociology Jeffrey Alexander Receives Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Theory Award

July 21, 2018
The Department of Sociology is proud to announce that Jeffrey C. Alexander is the 2018 Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Theory from the International...