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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!
March 9, 2012 Dominik Bartmanski (PhD '11) has been 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!
October 2, 2011 Isaac Ariail Reed, Yale Ph.D. 2007, has just published Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences with The University of Chicago Press. Isaac is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
August 27th, 2011 Jeffrey Swanson, (Yale Sociology PhD, 1985), and Marvin Swartz, MD, have been selected as joint recipients of the 2011 Carl Taube Award, an honor given by the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA). The prestigious award is presented to scholars who have made significant career contributions in the field of mental health research and treatment. On Tuesday, November 1, 2011, Dr. Swanson and Dr. Swartz will receive the award at the annual APHA meeting in Washington, DC, and will present their research to attendees. Dr. Swanson is a medical sociologist and Professor in the Division of Social and Community Psychiatry at Duke University. Read more >>
April 27th, 2011 Dorceta E. Taylor (Yale PhD ’91) is the winner of the 2010 Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association for her book “Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change” (Duke University Press 2009 http://meldi.snre.umich.edu/node/14094). This award is given in alternate years for publications of special noteworthiness in the field of environmental sociology. Dorceta is currently Associate Professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, where she has developed and directed minority environmental leadership programs since 2002. http://snre.umich.edu/profile/dorceta
April 21st, 2011 Sociology undergraduate major John R. Hall (Saybrook, ‘68) and African Studies major Philip D. Schuyler (Saybrook, ‘68) have posted on YouTube the much-awaited video of the performance drawn from their digital and textual collaborative composition, “Strip Vision of the End.” The performance took place at the University of Westminster conference, “The Apocalypse and its Discontents,” held in December 2010. Hall, a professor of sociology at the University of California – Davis, and Schuyler, a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Washington in Seattle, hold to the view that new times require new prophecy, and although they are both committed scholars, in this video, they seek to move outside the boundaries of conventional scholarship to explore other bases for arriving at knowledge.
January 7th, 2011 Bernice Pescosolido (Yale PhD '82) will receive the highest award of the Yale Graduate School, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, on October 4, 2011. The medal is 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. Bernice Pescosolido is currently Distinguished and Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research. The entire department congratulates Bernice on this prestigious award, and we all look forward to the ceremony and to Bernice's visit this October. More news to follow!
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