Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has announced the finalists for the 11th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African-American experience.The...
Yale Law School graduate Sonia Sotomayor ’79 made history today when she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 111th justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. She is the first Hispanic ever to sit on the Supreme Court and the third woman. Yale Law School...
Fewer black women with postgraduate degrees are getting married and having children, according to a study by the Yale Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, which was presented at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological...
Yale University and China’s Fudan University have partnered to launch the Chinese language edition of YaleGlobal, one of the premier online magazines covering contemporary global affairs. The September 1 launch of YaleGlobal Fudan Edition will mark the...
Award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw will visit Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism on September 22.Brokaw’s lecture on the future of journalism will take place at 5 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall Street. The event is free and...
Tzipi Livni, a member of the Israeli parliament and head of the Kadima party, will speak at Yale University as a Chubb Fellow on October 8 at 4:30 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School, 127 Wall St.The talk is free and open to the public....
Yale University President Richard C. Levin has named James Levinsohn to be the first director of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, effective February 1, 2010.The Jackson Institute will offer courses and core teaching programs in international...
Four alumni of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will be awarded Wilbur Lucius Cross Medals, the school’s highest honor, on October 6 at an event hosted by University President Richard C. Levin, Graduate School Dean Jon Butler and Carlos Riobó...
The Gilder-Lehrman Center (GLC) for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale is pleased to announce that Annette Gordon-Reed has been selected as the winner of the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in...
An exhibition of memorabilia, posters, manuscripts, prints, books and manifestos at Yale’s Beinecke Library, through December 19, chronicles the spirit of revolution that enthralled France from the end of the German occupation to the turbulent “events of...