ccs community

CCS Community

The CCS is a diverse community comprising scholars from Yale and beyond. While the Center is based in New Haven, we are privileged to include students and distinguished faculty from the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Israel, Turkey, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Argentina, Canada and the United States among our members. Intellectually, the CCS incorporates many researchers working in the field of cultural sociology proper, as well as anthropology, communications, comparative literature, geography, history, law, management, performance studies, and political science.

 

Executive Board

  • Senior Fellows

    • Senior Fellows are scholars who have entered retirement. Many are still active researchers and mentors. During their careers these individuals have made significant contributions to cultural sociology.

  • Junior Fellows

    • Junior Fellows are students enrolled at Yale who are engaged in the PhD program and who work in the CCS. They are the core participants in our weekly workshop along with any visiting scholars.

  • Faculty Fellows

    • Faculty Fellows are individuals with a PhD who are beyond the immediate postdoctoral scholar stage. They usually have full time faculty appointments and are engaged in teaching and research in the cultural sociology field. Most are tenured or on the tenure track. Typically a Faculty Fellow will be one of our own former students or have visited Yale for an extended period, worked with our faculty and students on projects, have their own students, and have a sympathetic orientation towards the Strong Program.

  • Post-Doctoral Fellows

    • Post-Doctoral Fellows are scholars with a new PhD who do not yet have a full time teaching oriented appointment.  They typically come from the ranks of our Junior Fellows and Pre-Doctoral Fellows. These are not in-house appointments. Post-doctoral fellows who are in-house are listed on our Visiting Fellows page. In-house Post-doctoral Fellows come to us with their own outside institutional funding when their work fits with CCS intellectual agendas. The CCS does not offer funding for postdoctoral appointments.  

  • Pre-Doctoral Fellows

    • Pre-Doctoral Fellows are graduate students who are not enrolled at Yale but who are associated with the CCS. Typically they have come to us as visiting students for a substantial period of time and will have presented at the workshop or a conference. Pre-Doctoral Fellows are often working on Strong Program influenced PhD projects under the supervision of one of our former students or a Faculty Fellow.

  • Culture Industry Fellows

    • Theories of postindustrial society have long pointed to a world oriented around knowledge and representation. Hence many occupations today are concerned with the creation, management, understanding, exchange and circulation of information, signs and iconic forms. Far from being locked in an Ivory Tower the work of the CCS has been centrally concerned with these very processes, about meaning and its implications for society today. Taking advantage of their CCS training some of our graduates become practitioners rather than academics, and others practitioners who continue to publish and research. Drawing upon their deep immersion into CCS paradigms and ways of seeing such scholars are uniquely equipped to master the pragmatics of the cultural-industrial landscape and build careers where cultural sociology is applied to solving problems, building communities, sharing ideas or creating identities.