Alice Y. Kaplan, newly named as Sterling Professor of French, is a leading scholar of 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature and history.
The Sterling Professorship is the highest honor bestowed on Yale faculty.
Kaplan was recently...
“Art gives us visions into the future, and music makes us feel where we want to go. It is often artists or musicians who help us to feel that which we have not learned how to say. It is really art that shows us the way.”
Civil Rights icon Angela Davis...
President Peter Salovey has announced the reappointment of three heads of residential colleges: Mary Lui at Timothy Dwight (TD), Thomas Near at Saybrook (SY), and Catherine Panter-Brick at Morse (MC). They will begin their new five-year terms on June 30.
This interview is part of a running series.
How are faculty in the humanities responding to the effects of the COVID-19 crisis?
Yale humanists are creative and conscientious. They are also, like all scholars, committed to the search for truth. For that...
Sunil Amrith, Lauren Benton, and Margaret Homans were appointed to endowed professorships.
Amrith, currently of Harvard University, was named as the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History. He focuses his research on the trans-regional movement of...
Dr. Susan Baserga, Eli Fenichel, and Regina Kunzel were appointed to endowed professorships.
Baserga, named as the William H. Fleming, M.D. Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, studies fundamental aspects of ribosome biogenesis, the...