Sociology

Philip Smith
Professor of Sociology; Associate Director Center for Cultural Sociology

Philip Smith works in the area of cultural sociology and cultural theory. He is responsible for a dozen books and over sixty articles and chapters. His most recent book is Durkheim and After (Polity 2020) which offers an intellectual history of the Durkheimian paradigm from its beginnings until today.

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ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow, 2026

Manu S. Sundaresan is an MD-PhD student admitted to the Department of Sociology. His previous work includes pre-trial programming and post-conviction legal advocacy, and now examines differential treatment of criminalised populations under law.

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ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow, 2026

Peter Boseong Yun is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Yale University. His research examines how work is organized and evaluated in contemporary labor markets, with particular attention to the role of technologies and workplaces. Drawing on large-scale survey data, his work explores how job definitions, credentials, and organizational contexts shape economic outcomes. As an ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow, he will examine policy-relevant questions related to skills, work, and evaluation in science- and technology-adjacent settings.

Emma Zang
Associate Professor of Sociology and Biostatistics

Emma Zang is an associate professor of sociology (with tenure) at Yale University, with secondary appointments in biostatistics and global affairs. She directs the Computational Aging, Family, and Evidence Lab (Z-CAFE) and serves as the founding faculty organizer of the Yale Population Studies Speaker Series, which brings together scholars working on population and health research. Zang completed her Ph.D. in public policy in 2019 and her M.A. in economics in 2017, both from Duke University. 

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