Historian Abbas Amanat and economist Andrew Metrick were appointed to endowed professorships.
Amanat, named as the William Graham Sumner Professor of History, is a historian of the modern Middle East, early modern and modern Iran, and Shi’ism and the...
Three Yale faculty members — Laura Barraclough, Hui Cao, and Seth Herzon — were appointed to endowed professorships.
Barraclough, designated as the Sarai K. Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies, teaches and conducts research on American cities...
Lauren Sandler, a journalist, author, and columnist, will speak at Yale on Thursday, April 5 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
Sandler’s talk, “Only Connect: On the Purpose, Pitfalls and Public Good of Storytelling Across Identities,” will take place at...
David Litt, a former White House speechwriter and bestselling author, will speak at Yale on Thursday, April 5 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
Litt’s talk, co-sponsored by the Traphagen Alumni Speakers Series of the Yale College Office of Student...
The Kon-Tiki expedition – when Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, five crew members, and a Spanish-speaking parrot journeyed by raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947 – was inspired by his conviction that people from South America settled in...
The ways in which virtual reality technologies help us understand poetry and technological explorations into what music reveals about the brain are just two of the topics that will be explored at the third annual Beyond Boundaries symposium, which will...
The good life is hard to define and even harder to attain, but three Yale professors came together in a panel discussion on April 2 to propose their own answers to the question: What is the good life, and how do we live it?
Professors Jennifer Herdt (...