The Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) lies at the heart of the university and comprises the some 50 departments and programs that provide instruction to the students of Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Damon Clark,...
In their nominations for this year’s Yale College Teaching Prizes, undergraduate students praised the honored faculty members for not only shining in the classroom but also for having a meaningful impact in their lives beyond it.
The winners of this year’...
Fourteen Yale faculty members who work across a range of disciplines were among the 252 accomplished individuals elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences last week.
Those elected are “extraordinary people who help solve the world’s most...
When he first visited the newly refurbished Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) at 320 York St. — known until recently as the Hall of Graduate Studies — faculty member Kevin van Bladel’s thoughts returned to his days as a Yale graduate student more than two...
Growing up in a predominantly white community in Illinois in the 1950s, Gerald Jaynes dreamed of racial equality in the United States long before he even knew who Martin Luther King Jr. was.
But it wasn’t until the future Yale professor was a young Army...
In his scholarly work and teaching, Daniel Martinez HoSang examines issues of race and racial injustice.
Beyond the Yale campus, he’s putting the lessons he’s learned to practice in Greater New Haven area schools, where he helps teachers create more...
For Yale scholar Hazel Carby, one of the gratifications of winning the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding is that this year’s honor recognizes the importance of work in ethnic and racial studies, which has previously...
When a student named Justin wrote pieces for a creative writing workshop offered by the Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI) this summer, he felt like he was sharing his heart with the world.
The workshop, which was offered to inmates at the MacDougall...