As a “huge fan” of the fictional character Percy Jackson while she was in middle school, Yale student Sharon Li wanted to learn a little bit more about the Greek mythology that influenced the book series that brought him to life — which included “Percy...
Elizabeth Hinton and Phillip Atiba Goff have been crossing paths for a long time.
With a mutual interest in policing, racial injustice, and criminal reform, Hinton, a historian, and Goff, a social psychologist, have often collaborated professionally. But...
Louise Glück, an adjunct professor of English at Yale and renowned poet whose evocative voice has for decades shaped the literary landscape, on Oct. 8 received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Royal Swedish National Academy announced.
Glück, who...
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...
In the summer of 2015, Yale scholar Jill Richards took part in a literary experiment with three other academics and critics: They read and critiqued, via emails to each other, the four novels (and international bestsellers) that make up the pseudonymous...
Nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus set sail for the Americas, much of the world was already connected via trade, exploration, and cultural exchange. In fact, one can trace globalization all the way back to the 11th century, according to Yale’s...
Yale faculty members Robin Dembroff and Issa Kohler-Hausmann were relieved when the Supreme Court announced its landmark June 15 ruling that federal civil rights law protects gay and transgender people from discrimination in the workplace. But the two —...
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has named Nichole Nelson, who earned her Ph.D. in history from Yale in May, one of 22 new Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows for 2020.
Now in its 10th year, the Public Fellows program places recent Ph.D.s in...
The Ethnicity, Race & Migration Program (ERM) this year graduated its largest class yet: 34 seniors, many of them first-generation college students.
In the interdisciplinary program, founded in 1997, students engage the fields of ethnic, Native, and...
Yale historian Rohit De and social psychologist Jennifer Richeson are among the 27 individuals named as 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellows. They will each receive $200,000 in philanthropic support for “high-caliber scholarly research in the humanities and...