Six members of the Yale faculty — Katerina Clark, Jill Jarvis, Jessica Gabriel Peritz, Shane Vogel, Erica Edwards, and Juno Jill Richards — have been honored by the Modern Language Association (MLA) for outstanding scholarly work in the field.
The six...
In today’s world, there’s an unspoken understanding that objects have a meaning, both to the individual and to society. No matter where you are in the world, people recognize that brands and other indicators of consumer culture inform perception.
Yale...
A new four-part Netflix docuseries, “African Queens: Njinga,” tells the story of the 17th-century warrior Queen Njinga, who ruled over the territories of Ndongo and Matamba in present-day Angola. Cécile Fromont, a professor in the history of art in Yale’s...
“G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century,” a 2022 biography of the controversial FBI director by Yale historian Beverly Gage, is among three books to win this year’s Bancroft Prize, one of the nation’s top honors in the field of...
Yale philosopher Stephen Darwall, whose work examines the foundations of ethics, moral psychology, and ethical and moral theory, is among 171 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships.
The awards, made annually by the...
Yale historian Beverly Gage has been awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in biography for “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century” (Viking), her revelatory book about the controversial FBI director.
In announcing the prize, the Pulitzer...
It’s been a memorable year and a half for Yale cultural historian and literary scholar Jing Tsu.
In the winter of 2022, she was invited to serve as an NBC cultural commentator for the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Last fall, she was selected to deliver the...