Sociology -- the systematic study of social life and social transformation -- is thriving at Yale.
In 1875, Yale professor William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) offered the first American course titled “Sociology.”
Today's department spans a wide array of areas and specialties, balanced with an emphasis on the core concepts, theory and methods of the discipline. Much is new since Sumner's day, but the Yale department still offers an overarching vision of the field, its future, and its relationship to knowledge of our changing world.
April 30, 2012 Yale Sociology has created a new award, The 21st Century Dissertation Prize, given from time to time, at the discretion of the department, to a distinguished sociology dissertation that contributes to public policy or the public interest. The inaugural winner is Malik Martin (Ph.D. 2008), for his thesis "The Conqueror's Prize: Revenue, Information, and Conflict in British Bengal, 1765-1819." Congratulations, Malik!
April 27, 2012 Mira Debs has been chosen as the recipient of the 2011 Community Service Award of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She was recognized for her work associated with the creation of SchoolHaven (http://kidhaven.com/schoolhaven/). The formal presentation is at the Graduate School Convocation Ceremony on Sunday May 20th, at 2 pm at the Hall of Graduate Studies. Brava, Mira!
April 24, 2012 Andrew Papachristos, who joins the department July 1 as Associate Professor, has received the Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award. The award recognizes outstanding scholarly contributions to the discipline of criminology by someone who has received the Ph.D., MD, LL.D. or analogous graduate degree no more than five years beforehand. Congratulations, Andy!
April 21, 2012 Christine Slaughter has been awarded a Research Fellowship at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library for Summer 2012 for her dissertation project, "Making Images Matter: Social Movements and Representational Campaigns." She will use the Beinecke's James Weldon Johnson Collection to investigate the ways early NAACP leaders theorized the relationship between cultural representations and social inequality, and how such theorizations informed their activism.
April 16, 2012 The CCS Annual Spring Conference will be held on April 27th and 28th at the New Haven Lawn Club. This year's special session, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Centennial is a highlight of our program. Full program and details are available on the CCS Website: CCS Spring Conference ~ 2012
April 4, 2012 This year's Marvin B. Sussman Prize for Best Dissertation has been awarded to Dominik Bartmanski for his "How Icons Work: Material Culture and Post-communist Transformation in Berlin and Warsaw, 1989-2009." The annual departmental prize was created and endowed in 1993 by Marvin Sussman (Ph.D. 1951). It is awarded to the graduate student whose dissertation, completed within the previous two academic years, is judged the most outstanding by a committee of department faculty. The recipient is invited to return to Yale to present her or his work to the Sociology department and the Yale community. Bartmanski was also recently awarded the Junior Theorist Prize of the International Sociological Association (R16: Sociological Theory) for his article “How to become an iconic social thinker: The intellectual pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault” in the European Journal of Social Theory. He will receive the prize at the 2012 ISA meeting in Trento, Italy. Congratulations, Dominik!
March 26, 2012 Matthew Mahler, who received his Sociology Ph.D. from SUNY-Stony Brook in 2011, will join the department this July as an ACLS New Faculty Fellow. Matt specializes in the study of American politics and ethnographic methods, and has also published in the areas of social theory and gender and sexuality. We look forward to his arrival!
March 16, 2012 The Stan Wheeler Memorial Jazz Concert, a springtime tradition to honor the memory of beloved professor and jazz musician, Stan Wheeler, will be held on Sunday, April 15, 2012, from 2:00-3:30 p.m. in Yale Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall Street, New Haven. Presented by the dean and faculty of Yale Law School and Yale Bands, the concert will feature the Yale Jazz Ensemble and Reunion Jazz Ensemble. Wheeler taught in Law and Sociology during his time at Yale, and his work shaped the academic field of sociology of law.
Admission is free and no tickets are required. Doors open at 1:30. The Yale Bands info line is 203-432-4113. More Concert Details >>
March 8, 2012 “The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Civility Amid the Faultlines of American Race Relations” was the topic of Professor Elijah Anderson's lecture to the Association of American Geographers on February 25 in New York City. http://www.ijurr.org/details/news/1491935/2012-IJURR-Lecture-at-the-AAG.html
February 16, 2012 We are delighted to announce that Dr. Andrew Papachristos will be joining the Sociology faculty this July 1 as Associate Professor. Andy, whose website can be found here http://www.papachristos.org/Welcome.html, holds a 2007 Ph.D. from University of Chicago, and specializes in the study of social networks; neighborhoods, crime, and public health, and the use of violence and honor as measures of social control. We look forward eagerly to his arrival!
February 12, 2012 The Laurel Award is bestowed annually by the board of the Foresight Network for outstanding services to futures thought. The Network's three thousand members vote on recipients, who have in the past included Richard Buckminster Fuller; Alvin Toffler; Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells. Congratulations, Wendy!
February 6, 2012 This year's Hollingshead lecture on “Abundance,” will be presented by Andrew Abbott on Tuesday February 28 from 4-5:30 pm in the Sterling Memorial Lecture Hall (128 Wall Street). Abbott is Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. The event will be followed by a brief reception in the library's Memorabilia Room. Download Poster >>
February 4, 2012 Professor Elijah Anderson's The Cosmopolitan Canopy Has Been Nominated for an NAACP Image Award, under the category of "Outstanding Literary Work: Non-Fiction." The awards ceremony takes place on February 17th. The book has been garnering local attention as well. For a recent interview with Elijah Anderson in the New Haven Register, see New Haven Register >>
January 25, 2012 Julia Adams spoke at the College de France in Paris, at a January 23 event dedicated to Bourdieu's posthumously published book Sur L'Etat. Her remarks will be published in Sociologica http://www.sociologica.mulino.it/main/index The colloquium is on line at http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/pierre-bourdieu/index.htm
January 18, 2012 The Winter 2011 issue of Habitus is out, in hard copy and on line [link here]. As a publication, Habitus was invented and designed by Yale sociology undergraduates, and the most recent issue foregrounds movements: social, political, intellectual. It's a great read! Check it out here...
January 17, 2012 Professor Hunter responded to a New York Times column by Joe Nocera on the "NCAA's Justice System." See his letter on Black Student-Athletes here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/opinion/black-student-athletes.html?emc=eta1
December 22, 2011 Elizabeth Breese, currently completing her dissertation in the department, spoke on the current crisis of American journalism, as this fall's annual Association of Yale Alumni assembly marked Yale’s awarding of the first PhD in North America in 1861. The day-long event attended by over 400 leaders from across the University’s alumni community. For more, see Yale Graduate News >>
December 14, 2011 The Sociology department is delighted to announce that Dr. Lloyd Grieger will be joining Sociology and the Jackson Institute for International Affairs as Assistant Professor this July 1st. Dr. Grieger received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Public Policy in 2010 from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He specializes in social demography, and conducts research in both the United States and South Africa. Welcome, Lloyd!
December 13, 2011 Professor Ron Eyerman's new book, The Cultural Sociology of Political Assassination: From MLK and RFK to Fortuyn and van Gogh, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Congratulations, Ron!
December 3, 2011 The November 2011 issue of Perspectives, the newsletter of the ASA Theory section, features items from section chair Philip Gorski (“After Kant: Protestant Ethics and Social Theory”), Jeffrey Alexander (“Morality as a Cultural System: On Solidarity Civil and Uncivil,” and a review of Isaac Reed's (Yale Ph.D. 2007) new book, Interpretation and Social Knowledge. Read more ...
November 10, 2011 Professor Elijah Anderson will deliver a talk on race and civility on Tuesday, Nov. 15, giving the first speech in a series of distinguished lectures organized by the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) to commemorate its 50-year anniversary. Anderson’s lecture, which will take place at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Bayard Sharp Hall, will examine his new book, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life.
November 1, 2011 Edited by Professor Philip Smith, it is now available on this website, sociology/yjs.html, and will soon be up on EBSCO as well. The YJS publishes a range of topics and styles of work, in the form of undergraduate senior theses, articles by Yale faculty, grad students, emeriti, and visiting scholars.
October 28, 2011 The editors of Habitus, an exciting undergraduate publication that serves as a forum for examining and commenting on the social world, has issued a new call for submissions. The theme? Movements. Last year's issue can be found here.
October 2, 2011 On Tuesday October 4, Bernice Pescosolido (Yale PhD '82) will speak on “Reining In Complexity: A Sociological Vision of Collective Life,” in Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, at 53 Wall Street. Bernice Pescosolido is Distinguished and Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research. Later that evening she will receive the highest award of the Yale Graduate School, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, given annually by the Graduate School Alumni Association to a small number of distinguished alumni. It recognizes outstanding achievement in scholarship, teaching, academic administration and public service, areas in which the legendary Dean Cross excelled.
September 21, 2011 Friday, September 23rd, 4:30p–6:30p, 493 College Street. Families Welcome. Please Join us! For additional information please contact Kim Kuzina: kimberly.kuzina@yale.edu, or call 203-432-3320. Download Poster>>
September 20, 2011 Professor Rene Almeling has published Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm. In Sex Cells, Professor Almeling provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business. Press and media coverage: The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Newsweek, NPR, Yale, Read More>>
September 18, 2011 Professor Hannah Brueckner addressed the collective level of vulnerability in turbulent times in a speech delivered at the plenary session of the same name at the European Sociological Association Annual Meeting in Geneva. In “Vulnerability, Sociology, and Intervention,” she argued that sociologists are uniquely qualified to study the social and cultural mechanisms by which a particular vulnerability, for example a genetic one, results in negative outcomes.
September 17, 2011 As a follow-up to his new book, Performative Revolution in Egypt: An Essay in Cultural Power, Bloomsbury USA, Professor Jeff Alexander is in Cairo, Egypt, conducting interviews and writing a daily blog, accessible on the Center for Cultural Sociology Website
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