Music has been a part of Daphne Brooks’ life since she can remember. Her childhood home was filled with the sounds of all kinds of records, including Duke Ellington and Aretha Franklin. She even played a little bit of piano herself. But she says she never...
In his research, Nicholas Jones explores questions related to Black diasporic identity in early modern Iberia and the Ibero-Atlantic world. Put another way, he says, his scholarship reveals a blueprint for past rebellion by Black Africans and their...
Bias Stanley, a prominent New Haven resident and first deacon and treasurer of the Temple Street Congregational Church, died on Aug. 26, 1854. His exact age was unknown.
Although there are five draft inscriptions for his tomb preserved in a small...
Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) last week honored four professors who made valuable contributions to the campus community and beyond during the 2022-23 academic year.
Claire Bowern, a professor of linguistics; Alicia Schmidt Camacho, professor...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, we introduce you to an alum, and now critic, at Yale School of Architecture whose Brooklyn firm was recently recognized as one of the world’s most innovative emerging...
Sarah Victoria Turner, an art historian and curator who specializes in the cultural relationships between Britain and India, has been appointed director of Yale’s Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, a London-based educational charity and...