July 2017

Global History Working Group

This working group brings together graduate students seeking to write histories that foreground global connections and interruptions. United by a desire to work in a group defined by a commitment to understanding global dimensions of historical problems, we welcome participants from all regional areas. Our working group aims not only to provide opportunities to see new connections between areas, but to build upon and challenge analytic methods rooted in regional histories too often compromised by a commitment to an inevitable nation-state.

Valerie Hansen designated the Stanley Woodward Professor of History

Valerie Hansen, newly designated as the Stanley Woodward Professor of History, focuses her research on China before 1600, Chinese religious and legal history, and the history of the Silk Road.

Three winners of inaugural humanities grant competition announced, including Environmental Humanities Initiative

Three projects have been chosen for funding in the first open grant competition supported by the 320 York Humanities Programming Endowment.

The endowment was created in 2016 through the anonymous $50 million gift to the humanities at Yale. This gift also funded the current transformation of the Hall of Graduate Studies, located at 320 York St., into a hub for the humanities at Yale.