In February, “Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch,” a documentary film by Yale faculty member Charles Musser, had its world premiere at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Montana. Musser, who is a professor of film and media studies and the director of...
Nearly 1,700 high school students from around the world will converge on the Yale campus for the 40th session of Yale Model United Nations (YMUN XL), to be held Jan. 23–26.YMUN is one of the most prestigious academic simulations of the United Nations in...
Openly gay collegiate faculty are significantly more uncomfortable at work than are closeted gay faculty, a pattern most severe for those working in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines, according to a Yale-led study.The pattern...
The Hans Sigrist Foundation at the University of Bern (Switzerland) awarded the 2014 Hans Sigrist Prize to Jennifer Klein, professor of history, for her contribution to the field of “Women and Precarity: Historical Perspectives.”Jennifer KleinThe...
Joshua H. Billings, newly named as the Sarai Ribicoff Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities, focuses his research on tragedy, intellectual history, and the classical tradition. His appointment is effective immediately through June 30, 2016.Joshua...
Jonathan Kramnick, newly named as the Maynard Mack Professor of English, focuses his research and teaching on 18th-century literature and philosophy, philosophical approaches to literature, and cognitive science, ecology, and the arts.Jonathan...
Ardis R.T. Butterfield, newly named as the John M. Schiff Professor of English, conducts her research on Chaucer and nationhood; bilingualism and medieval linguistic identities; the literatures and music of France and England from the thirteenth to the...