The Kon-Tiki expedition – when Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, five crew members, and a Spanish-speaking parrot journeyed by raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947 – was inspired by his conviction that people from South America settled in...
For students in the “Intro to Public Humanities” class, the city of New Haven is their classroom. Instead of cramming for a final before Christmas break, they are “putting something out into the world,” says Ryan André Brasseaux ’11 Ph.D., dean of...
Lynn Novick ’83 B.A. has big ambitions for her latest documentary “College Behind Bars.” The four-part series directed and produced by Novick, (co-produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns), airs in November on PBS and is being shown...
Among Yale students and alumni, professor Fred Strebeigh ’74 B.A., who has taught at Yale since 1984, is something of a legend.
Nonfiction writing courses by Strebeigh, the senior lecturer emeritus in English and in the School of Forestry and...
When Jesse Washington ’92 B.A. was a student at Yale in the late 1980s, he witnessed African-American men ascending to new positions of power in sports.
Among them was John Thompson Jr., coach of Georgetown University’s basketball team, the first African-...
On Dec. 2, author and historian Ibram X. Kendi made the case that much of the conventional thinking around racism misses the point. First and foremost, he argued, it is power and policy, and not people, that keep racism firmly entrenched in society....
After the U.S. presidential election of 2016, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, an undocumented American from Ecuador and Yale doctoral student, decided it was time to write her story. Beyond that, she wanted to write the story of other undocumented immigrants...
In June, alumni scholars from far-flung states and countries, from different professional backgrounds and class years, converged on campus. What they shared was a deep interest in learning — in studying the humanities and exploring ideas with some of Yale...