Two years ago, Connor Williams, an advanced doctoral student in history and African American Studies at Yale, was invited to help reshape how Americans memorialize the U.S. Civil War.
Williams was selected to be lead historian of the Naming Commission (...
Erik Harms always likes to get to his “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” class 20 minutes early. Like many other Yale instructors, he’ll often lay out materials for his students before each lecture and prepare a set of PowerPoint slides.
Then Harms,...
Two Yale Law School students — one born to Somalian immigrants and the other to parents from India — and a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GSAS) who was born in Egypt are among those receiving 2023 Paul & Daisy Soros...
Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the depths of hell.
A copy of the beautifully illuminated...
The new cohort of Yale undergraduates that arrived on campus this week, perhaps more than any before it, has come of age “in a culture of haste,” President Peter Salovey told a campus audience yesterday: Typically born after the emergence of social media...
Four alumni of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) were recently awarded Wilbur Lucius Cross Medals in recognition of their outstanding work and service.
Awarded annually by the GSAS Alumni Association, the Wilbur Cross Medal honors...