By the time he was entering his senior year of high school in New Haven, in 2017, Henry Seyue already knew that he wanted to study law, preferably constitutional law. One of his teachers, recognizing his academic seriousness, recommended that he attend...
Marc Robinson, a longtime member of the Yale faculty and a leading theater critic whose work has illuminated the history of drama and performance in the United States, has been named the next dean of humanities for Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, we drop the needle on a new jazz Christmas album, produced by Grammy-winning saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, that introduces a new voice from Yale College; look toward...
On the Yale campus, the year 2023 was marked by transformative change.
New campus initiatives set the stage for the cross-disciplinary research necessary to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges, and the space to do it. A groundbreaking research...
Julian Posada spent the COVID lockdown researching the working conditions of Latin Americans who do much of the data work needed for the growing artificial intelligence industry. And he became increasingly frustrated that discussions about the ethics of...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, a book that centers Native Americans in the country’s history earns national acclaim; a boundary-smashing artist brings a “sensory circuit workout” to campus; a Yale...
Patrick Del Percio first showed an interest in learning the Cherokee language at the age of seven, when their family visited a living history museum portraying a 1760s Cherokee village. Del Percio asked the tour guide for the Cherokee word for “hello.”...