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...
In LitHub’s “Fiction/Non/Fiction” podcast and The New Yorker Radio Hour, respectively, Yale historians Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder discuss Putin, Russia, and the turmoil in Ukraine.
Marci Shore on a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Yale University today announced bold new investments in the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) and in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) that will accelerate the university’s educational and research missions.
The plan calls for 45 new...
In 2020, while co-teaching a course called “Eurasian Entanglements: Russia and China in the 20th century” for the Yale Alumni Academy, Jinyi Chu listened to former students reminisce about the courses they took on campus 40 or more years earlier. The...
Two Yale faculty members are among a group of 180 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists awarded 2022 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Daphne A. Brooks, a scholar of African-American literature and culture, performance...