College-educated Black women in the United States give birth to fewer children than their white and Hispanic counterparts, according to a new study coauthored by Yale sociologist Emma Zang.
The study, published in the journal Population Studies, examines...
Royce K. Young Wolf understands what it means to be denied the ability to access one’s heritage. Like four generations of her family, she attended a boarding school that discouraged her from studying her Hiraacá (Hidatsa), Nu’eta (Mandan), and Sosore (...
The Yale Peabody Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery have hired scholar, artist, and curator Royce K. Young Wolf to help steward their collections of art and artifacts relating to the Indigenous peoples of North America.
Beginning in June 2023,...
Leon Bass was 20 years old in April 1945 when his army unit helped liberate Buchenwald, a sprawling concentration camp outside Weimar, Germany. Martin Schiller, who lost most of his family in the Holocaust, was 12 years old on the day he watched the...
As the standard narrative goes, the tensions and conflicts that have afflicted the Middle East over the past century originate with the arbitrary redrawing of the region’s map by the British and French after the Ottoman Empire collapsed during World War I...
“Lives of the Gods: Divinity and Maya Art,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, explores how people give material shape to their religious beliefs. When it came to capturing this universal human endeavor, the ancient Mayans had...
The Northern Treeshrew, a small, bushy-tailed mammal native to South and Southeast Asia, defies two of the most widely tested ecological “rules” of body size variation within species, according to a new study coauthored by Yale anthropologist Eric J....
A series of dramatic maps, draped like tapestries across the walls of the main ballroom of the historic Sinel de Cordes Palace in Lisbon, Portugal, portray the myriad pathways humans have created — highways, railroads, shipping lanes, power lines,...
French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Yale political scientist Hélène Landemore to the governance committee overseeing a citizens’ convention that will reconsider France’s laws on assisted suicide and euthanasia.
The new assembly, which will...
At a celebration marking the Yale Divinity School’s (YDS) bicentennial this summer, Yale President Peter Salovey spoke of the school’s enduring imprint on campus and beyond — and how it has come to embodfy the university’s motto Lux et Veritas.
“What...