Six members of the Yale faculty — Katerina Clark, Jill Jarvis, Jessica Gabriel Peritz, Shane Vogel, Erica Edwards, and Juno Jill Richards — have been honored by the Modern Language Association (MLA) for outstanding scholarly work in the field.
The six...
For nearly a half-century, J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI or its precursor. A rabid anti-Communist now known for his own law-breaking — specifically, for his secret surveillance of American citizens — he is often caricatured as a bulldog.
But in...
Whether championing diversity in STEM fields, innovating in their classrooms to be more inclusive, or building a sense of community with faculty colleagues, the four winners of this year’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean’s Award for Inclusion and...
As a Yale undergraduate, Hussein Fancy ’97 majored in English, with aspirations to be a writer. Today, as he teaches and conducts research on medieval Iberia, Fancy thinks of himself as a “writer of history” rather than as a historian. This month he...
Four junior faculty members in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been honored for pioneering scientific or humanities research in their scholarly fields.
Jennifer Allen, an associate professor of history, received the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman...
When he first visited the newly refurbished Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) at 320 York St. — known until recently as the Hall of Graduate Studies — faculty member Kevin van Bladel’s thoughts returned to his days as a Yale graduate student more than two...
Growing up in a predominantly white community in Illinois in the 1950s, Gerald Jaynes dreamed of racial equality in the United States long before he even knew who Martin Luther King Jr. was.
But it wasn’t until the future Yale professor was a young Army...
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...
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...