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...
In recent days, The New York Times published numerous opinion pieces by Yale historians and political scientists. Find them here:
Yale’s Timothy Snyder: American political atrocity and the future
“A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump,...
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...
When told well, stories provide people a way to relate, forge connections, and convey culture and values that unite communities. But stories can also be used to promote bias, distort perceptions, and shape false realities.
With the advent of digital media...
Seven 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:
Phillip Atiba Goff, who studies the science of racial bias and discrimination through analysis of...
What can 17th century literature teach us about the present? In the first in an occasional series of videos featuring members of the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Professor of English Feisal Mohamed tells us how Milton’s poetry responds to the...