May 4, 2012 The 2012 Mildred Priest Frank Memorial Prize has been awarded to Katherine Giaccone. Her Senior Thesis concerns corporate board interlock and the way that this can promote the uptake of corporate social responsibility. Running against the grain of conventional sociological wisdom it suggests that sometimes interlocking directorates can be a good thing. The award committee of Professors Smith, Hunter and Wildeman were impressed by the huge effort put into hand-building a database, a sophisticated network analysis of corporate board interlock and a research finding that has realistic policy implications. In addition they were impressed by Giaccone's performance in coursework within the Major and the way that her ethically motivated topic resonated with Mildred Priest Frank's own love of people.
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. The student-faculty-staff selection committee was very impressed with her work associated with the creation of SchoolHaven (http://kidhaven.com/schoolhaven/). This is a major award, and it's great that Mira has been recognized! The formal presentation will take place at the Graduate School Convocation Ceremony on Sunday May 20th, at 2 pm at HGS.
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 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!
June 30, 2011 LaTisha Campbell '12, Sociology and African American Studies double major, was chosen to participate in the Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) at Northwestern University. While preparing for graduate school, she is working with Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes at Northwestern's campus in Evanston, Illinois.
June 20, 2011 Rising Senior Kathleen Powers has won the Yale Class of 1960 Fellowship, which supports her senior thesis research on the role of social media in the “Arab Spring” and its aftermath in today’s Tunisia.
June 20, 2011 Mary Jo Toothman, incoming senior major, has won the 2011 Yale College Fellowship for Research in Health Studies. She is spending summer 2011 working in an intentional community and studying the ways that understandings of health and illness are influenced by community values and social structure.
June 20, 2011 Thomas Meyer, Yale Sociology ’11, has been named a Yale University Fox International Fellowand will be attending the University of Cambridge, England in academic year 2011-12.
June 20, 2011 Raffi Greenberg, who will be a Sociology senior in fall 2011, is currently conducting research in rural Guatemala, having won an OFP Fellowship for Juniors in support of his senior thesis research.
June 1, 2011 Professor and DUS Phil Smith is delighted to report that congratulations are due to two of the department's recent graduates, Nathan Glaser and Isabel Jijon, who won prizes for their senior theses. Nate Glaser received the 2011 Hegel Prize. This is for the best senior thesis in Yale College about New Haven. Nate's project, an imaginative ethnography of riding the bus, explored how people get along, sometimes against all odds, and how the bus 'works' as efficient and safe public transit. Another of our recent BA graduates, Isabel Jijon, won the department's Mildred Priest Frank Memorial Award. This goes to the outstanding graduating senior whose work displays both the love of people and standards of excellence of Mildred Priest Frank herself. Isabel's thesis developed a new theoretical approach to cultural globalization in the context of an exploration of the meanings of soccer in a remote valley in Ecuador. The award committee was especially impressed by her capacity for middle-range theory building and her sensitivity to the lives of others.
May 24, 2011 Department of Sociology's Rui Gao was one of two Graduate School winners of the John Addison Porter Prize. She won for her dissertation “Eclipse and Memory: Public Representation of the War of Resistance in Maoist China and its Official Revision in Post-Mao Era”. The John Addison Porter Prize is given for a written work of scholarship in any field in which it is possible, through original effort, to gather and relate facts and/or principles and to make the product of general human interest. The award was established in 1872 by the Kingsley Trust Association (The Scroll and Key Society) in honor of the late Professor Porter, who received a bachelor’s degree from Yale in 1842.
April 4, 2011 Ates Altinordu, currently Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Istanbul's Sabanci University, has been awarded the Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize for his outstanding 2010 thesis, "The Rise and Transformation of Religious Politics: Political Catholicism and Political Islam in Comparative Perspective." The prize, created in 1993, was endowed by Marvin B. Sussman (Ph.D. 1951, Yale). It is offered annually to the former Yale Sociology graduate student whose dissertation, completed within the previous two academic years, is judged the most outstanding. Professor Altinordu will return to New Haven on May 5 to give a lecture to the department.
February 2nd, 2011 Kayla Vinson (Sociology and African-American Studies) has been named one of the 25 Fellows competitively selected for a Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship for Aspiring Teachers of Color (WW-RBF). Established in 1992, the Fellowships have since become part of a suite of teaching fellowships that recognize excellence while recruiting effective teachers for the students and schools that most need them. Vinson was also just named as one of The Root's Young Futurists, recognizing the research that will culminate in her senior thesis. http://www.theroot.com/views/2011/young-futurists. Congratulations, Kayla!
February 1, 2011 Congratulations to Natalie Nitsche, who received a prestigious NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant in the Division of Sociology. The grant supports high quality dissertational research and will fund methods training at the ICPSR summer program. Natalie’s dissertation investigates the relationship between second birth transitions and relative socio-economic resources within couples in Germany and the US.
 |
Yale Sociology Department · New Haven CT 06520 · Phone: (203) 432-3313 · Fax: (203) 432-6976 |
