George Chauncey, the newly named Samuel Knight Professor of History and American Studies, specializes in the fields of 20th-century U.S. history and gay history.The chair of the Department of History, he is also the co-director of the Yale Research...
John Mack Faragher, the newly designated Howard R. Lamar Professor of History, is a scholar and teacher of the history of the American West.The director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale, Faragher has authored or...
Matthew F. Jacobson, the newly appointed William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and History, has broad research and teaching interests spanning the topic of race in U.S. political culture from 1790 to the present.Among the topics he teaches...
There will be a memorial service on Saturday, Dec. 1, for María Rosa Menocal, Sterling Professor of the Humanities and former director of the Whitney Humanities Center, who died on Oct. 15 after a three-year battle with melanoma.María Rosa MenocalThe...
Rolena Adorno, recently designated as the Sterling Professor of Spanish, studies Colonial Spanish American literature and history and the 19th-century origins of Hispanism in the United States.The Sterling Professorship is the highest honor bestowed on...
Gary Tomlinson, recently designated as the John Hay Whitney Professor of Music and the Humanities, is a musicologist and cultural theorist.Tomlinson’s teaching and scholarship range across a diverse set of interests, including the history of opera, early-...
A new program dedicated to promoting cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration — the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities — will launch in November with a lecture and panel discussion on the topic of violence, a central issue for both fields....
The Fortunoff Archive at Yale, which has collected the personal stories of thousands of survivors and first-hand witnesses of the Holocaust, is marking its 30th year with an exhibition at Sterling Memorial Library on view through Nov. 6 and a conference...