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March 15, 2017
Check out the March edition of Ethnography, Special issue: Between Theory and Social Reality, with articles by CCS fellows Andrea Voyer, Mats Trondman, Fred Wherry, Claudio...
March 9, 2017
Read Ron’s comments in the article, ‘Marked for death’: How Geert Wilders used the trauma of political assassination to build a movement.
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February 20, 2017
THE COUNCIL ON AFRICAN STUDIES  CAS LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS – CCS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW - FLORIAN STOLL SOCIO-CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF THE AFRICAN MIDDLE CLASS – RESULTS FROM...
February 2, 2017
We are happy to announce that CCS alum and Faculty Fellow Nadya Jaworksy has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic,...
Jeffrey Alexander
February 1, 2017
“Was the election a ‘shattering’ experience for you? There is hope, says a Yale sociologist.” Yale News, January 27, 2017 “We know we are part of a world because we connect...
Ron Eyerman
January 23, 2017
An unfortunate side effect of collective identity is collective trauma “Ronald Eyerman, a professor of sociology at Yale University, says that trauma experienced at an...
December 21, 2016
CCS Faculty Fellow, B. Nadya Jaworksy’s new book, The Boundaries of Belonging: Online Work of Immigration-Related Social Movement Organizations, has been published in...