News

July 26, 2017
Joanna Radin, Assistant Professor of History of Medicine, Anthropology, and History, joins American Studies after several years at Yale.  Her innovative research and teaching...
June 21, 2017
Congratulations to Daphne Brooks and Paul Sabin for their winning projects that have been chosen out of three for funding in the first open grant competition supported by the...
May 25, 2017
Laura Barraclough has won two grants from the Yale Digital Humanities Lab and the Antipode Foundation for her ongoing public/digital humanities project, “A People’s Guide,”...
May 7, 2017
Six winners of the university’s top prizes recognizing undergraduate teaching excellence — Jacqueline Goldsby, Andrew Johnston, Gilbert Joseph, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Frances ...
November 21, 2016
Jonathan Holloway, dean of Yale College and the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies, will become the next provost of...
October 31, 2016
We are pleased to announce Lucy Caplan, a PhD student in American Studies and African American Studies, has been awarded the distinguished 2016 Stephen and Cynthia Rubin...
August 31, 2016
Whenever a professional athlete speaks out against injustice and oppression, fans split between those who celebrate it as an act of courage and those who dismiss it as...