A group of leading religion journalists from around the world will meet at Yale Divinity School (YDS) on Thursday, Nov. 15, to discuss the future of faith reporting in the news media.(Illustration by Michael Helfenbein)The free and public panel discussion...
Joanne Meyerowitz, the newly appointed Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and American Studies, specializes in 20th-century U.S. history, women and gender, and sexuality.She is chair of the American Studies Program and co-director of the Yale Research...
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...
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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-...