After mapmaker Judah Ben Zara was banished from Spain in 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled their kingdom’s Jewish population, the exiled cartographer continued plying his craft in the Middle East. His only surviving maps — two made in Egypt and...
When she was a college student, economist Lauren Falcao Bergquist participated in a volunteer program in Tanzania where she taught HIV prevention. While she enjoyed the experience, which galvanized her interest in East Africa, she questioned whether the...
The Windham-Campbell Prizes’ annual literary festival returns to campus Sept. 19 to Sept. 22 with a special lineup of events to mark its 10th anniversary, including a keynote address by former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey.
The eight...
In January, James O’Donnell, a renowned concert organist, choral conductor, and liturgical musician, will join the faculties of the Yale School of Music and the Institute of Sacred Music. In the meantime, O’Donnell has important work to do: On Monday, he...
Tiny glass beads discovered in mountain caves about 25 miles from the shores of Lake Malawi in eastern-central Africa provide evidence that European trade in the continent’s hinterland was built on Indigenous trade routes from the coast to the interior...
On a sweltering morning in early August, Yale students Emma Sherefkin and Noah Silvestry installed cabinetry in the kitchen of a new home in New Haven’s Hill neighborhood. Silvestry held a door steady as Sherefkin fastened its hinges with a power...