Long before there was a play that made Founding Father Alexander Hamilton a household name and an American hero of sorts, a 14-year-old girl took an interest in Hamilton as a hobby. That hobby led to a scholarly interest that has spanned the better part...
Katerina Clark, Alexander Goncharov, and Laura Nasrallah were appointed to endowed professorships.
Clark, named as the B.E. Bensinger Professor of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Languages and Literatures, focuses her research on Russian, European,...
In “Cairo the Incandescent,” Karen Polinger Foster, former lecturer in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, “explores manifestations of light throughout the city, from dawn to dusk, from the broad sweep of its radiant river to the lucent details of...
Esther F. arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944 — a period when the camp’s crematoriums were operating at full capacity. Esther, a physician, was held for five days before being transported to Guben, a labor camp in Germany where she was assigned...
Journalist Janet Malcolm wrote an email in March 2004 to scholars Ulla Dydo, Edward Burns, and William Rice recounting a recent trip to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where she was exploring the archives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B....