Three Yale faculty members — mathematician Hee Oh, poet Claudia Rankine, and historian Timothy Snyder — have won 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships.The fellowship winners are appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. The Yale faculty...
The “old goddess” is a paradoxical character in Maya mythology. She is the grandmother who raised the infant gods, but in most accounts, she hated them, and finally tried to kill them. Despite her significance, she rarely appears in ancient Maya art.In...
Novelist Deji Bryce Olukotun ’00 B.A. began writing fiction as a school kid. He would submit short stories to his teachers that they had not assigned him.
“They’d say, ‘Sure, fine, but you’re not going to get extra credit for it,’” Olukotun said. “I didn’...