Frank Griffel, professor of Islamic studies and chair of Yale’s Council on Middle East Studies, was honored with a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany.Frank GriffelNamed after the German mathematician and...
Jon Butler, the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies, began his term as the 2015-16 president of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) on April 18.Jon ButlerButler taught at Yale from 1985 to 2012...
Chemistry professor Patrick Vaccaro and historian Jon Butler were recently honored with Yale College’s oldest award for outstanding teaching — the William Clyde DeVane Medal.The William Clyde DeVane Medal honors outstanding scholarship and undergraduate...