As editors of the Yale Indian Papers Project (YIPP), Paul Grant-Costa and Tobias Glaza explore collections at museums, archives, libraries, and historical societies across New England and in the United Kingdom — some of which have been overlooked by...
The Hans Sigrist Foundation at the University of Bern (Switzerland) awarded the 2014 Hans Sigrist Prize to Jennifer Klein, professor of history, for her contribution to the field of “Women and Precarity: Historical Perspectives.”Jennifer KleinThe...
When students in the “Introduction to Public Humanities” course were deciding what they were going to create for a final project, they knew one thing: They weren’t going to find the answer in the classroom. So, they took to the streets of New Haven.The...
In today’s interconnected world, the United States cannot afford not to take a lead in dealing with crises such as the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, Russian aggression in the Ukraine, and a string of brutal executions by ISOL, U.S. permanent...
Joshua H. Billings, newly named as the Sarai Ribicoff Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities, focuses his research on tragedy, intellectual history, and the classical tradition. His appointment is effective immediately through June 30, 2016.Joshua...
Jonathan Kramnick, newly named as the Maynard Mack Professor of English, focuses his research and teaching on 18th-century literature and philosophy, philosophical approaches to literature, and cognitive science, ecology, and the arts.Jonathan...
Ardis R.T. Butterfield, newly named as the John M. Schiff Professor of English, conducts her research on Chaucer and nationhood; bilingualism and medieval linguistic identities; the literatures and music of France and England from the thirteenth to the...