In Yale medical sociologist Alka Menon’s work, she draws on her research in the United States and Malaysia to take a transnational look at cosmetic surgery.
What Menon found is that in addition to enhancing the looks that a patient already has, cosmetic...
Five Yale faculty members and affiliates were among 168 scholars, artists, and writers appointed as 2019 Guggenheim Fellows. The fellows, who are appointed by the foundation on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, were chosen from a...
The many facets of the world of ancient Mesopotamia — a culture in some respects distant and alien but in others strangely similar to ours today — will be on display in a new exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
“Ancient Mesopotamia...
Imagine for a moment, what it would be like to not have access to conventional ways of documenting your own life experiences. What if — as a marginalized person — it was illegal for you to learn how to read and write? What if you didn’t have the resources...
