News

November 11, 2015
In the last few weeks, colleges have been rattled by stories of racial tension on campus. This week, the president of the University of Missouri resigned after black...
October 29, 2015
Professor Laura Barraclough has published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times showing how laws banning events in the Mexican rodeo are feeding the anti-immigrant agenda. To...
October 8, 2015
Laura Barraclough, Public Voices Fellow for 2015-2016, has published an essay connecting the rise of homelessness in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley to histories of...
October 7, 2015
Historian and Dean of Yale College Jonathan Holloway joins the Teach Better Podcast, episode 17 to talk about his acclaimed undergraduate lecture course on African-American...
October 5, 2015
September 21st, Professor Zareena Grewal’s relatives in Mosul, Iraq were drone-attacked in the middle of the night and four of them died and others were injured. For...
August 13, 2015
Congratulations to Megan Asaka (PhD 2014) for her outstanding dissertation, “The Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and the Making of Seattle’s Urban Landscape” in winning the...
May 12, 2015
Jon Butler, Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies was recently honored with Yale College’s oldest award for outstanding...