In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, we delve into the 18th-century correspondence of Alethea Stiles, the young cousin of a future Yale president whose letters offer a window into women’s education in...
In the inaugural Humanitas, a new monthly column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, we celebrate the return of audiences to the Yale Repertory Theatre, preview a public art installation that will soon arrive in New Haven, and catch up with two...
Ellen Cohn watched the April 4 premiere of “Benjamin Franklin,” a new documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns on the consequential life of the 18th-century American polymath, with her family and a bowl of popcorn.
But her involvement with the project goes back...
In 2020, while co-teaching a course called “Eurasian Entanglements: Russia and China in the 20th century” for the Yale Alumni Academy, Jinyi Chu listened to former students reminisce about the courses they took on campus 40 or more years earlier. The...
After the American Indian Sovereignty Project was established last summer, its leaders knew that they would be busy with scholarly engagements in contemporary issues in federal Indian law. But the group, a collaboration between Yale and New York...
Two Yale faculty members are among a group of 180 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists awarded 2022 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Daphne A. Brooks, a scholar of African-American literature and culture, performance...