After the U.S. presidential election of 2016, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, an undocumented American from Ecuador and Yale doctoral student, decided it was time to write her story. Beyond that, she wanted to write the story of other undocumented immigrants...
Thomas Russell Whitaker, the Fredrick W. Hilles Professor of English & Theater Studies, Emeritus, scholar of modern poetry and drama, died at Middlesex Hospital in Connecticut on Dec. 24. He was 95 years old.
Whitaker was known for the breadth of his...
Eight members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have recently been named to endowed professorships by vote of Yale’s Board of Trustees.
They are:
Keith Baker, a particle physicist known for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson...
A new series of pithy Q&As introduces newcomers to the Yale faculty to the broader university community. Here, meet Marcel Elias, an assistant professor of English with expertise in medieval and French literature.
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...
The Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Sept. 13 shared the full list of 2021–22 department and program chairs. The list can be found here.
“I am grateful to our chairs for their service to their units and to Yale, and it is a privilege to work with...