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November 3, 2021
The Stockholm Prize in Criminology is the world’s most prestigious award in the field of criminology.  It is awarded to Elijah Anderson, Yale University, USA, for his...
November 3, 2021
Rene Almeling published an opinion piece in the Washington Post outlining the main arguments from her recent book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive...
October 28, 2021
Yale Sociology Ph.D. student Jiwon Yun has a new article in the  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Entitled “Singing, moving and laughing together: engaging the...
October 22, 2021
Sociology Assistant Professor Emma Zang has a new Op-Ed in the The Hill on how Remore Work might help solve family care crisis for immigrants.
October 13, 2021
On January 1, 2022, Anjanette Chan Tack will be joining the  Sociology Department for the Spring 2022 semester as a Visiting Lecturer through Yale’s Presidential Visiting...
September 22, 2021
Emma Zang has been awarded a 2 year NIH R21 award ($472,884) to apply her Bayesian trajectory models to study the linked health trajectories of persons with cognitive...
May 21, 2021
The 2021 21st Century Dissertation Prize in the Department of Sociology has been awarded to Dr. Tony Cheng. His dissertation is titled “Policing and the Illusion of Public...
May 21, 2021
The 2021 Marvin B. Sussman Best Dissertation Award in the Department of Sociology has been awarded to Dr. Thomas Lyttelton. The title of his dissertation is Work, Sociability...
May 21, 2021
The Sociology Department is happy to announce that Jason Contino is the 2021 Winner of the Mildred Priest Frank Award recognizing outstanding scholarship and service among...
March 10, 2020
Margaret Traeger’s article, “Vulnerable Robots Positively Shape Human Conversational Dynamics in a Human-Robot Team” was recently published in Proceedings of the...