April 2018

New York Times Op-Ed: "How the Human Rights Movement Failed" by Samuel Moyn

The human rights movement, like the world it monitors, is in crisis: After decades of gains, nearly every country seems to be backsliding. Viktor Orban in Hungary, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines and other populist leaders routinely express contempt for human rights and their defenders.

But from the biggest watchdogs to monitors at the United Nations, the human rights movement, like the rest of the global elite, seems to be drawing the wrong lessons from its difficulties.

Historian Deborah Coen on the power and ingenuity of the modern sciences

Deborah Coen is a professor in the Department of History and chair of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine (HSHM). She joined the FAS faculty in July 2017, coming to Yale from New York City, where she had taught at Barnard College since 2006 and served as director of research clusters for the Columbia University Center for Science and Society.

A childhood dream comes true for History major Amelia Nierenberg

By Susan Gonzalez, Yale News

As a child, one of Amelia Nierenberg’s favorite games was to play “journalist,” during which she would stage interviews with her grandmother.

Camille Cole Wins Joel A. Tarr Prize

History Ph.D. candidate Camille Cole recently received the Joel A. Tarr Prize for the best article, published in either a journal or edited volume, on the relationship between technology and the environment in history. Her article, “Precarious Empires: A Social and Environmental History of Steam Navigation on the Tigris,” was published in the Journal of Social History.

Laura Blokker: "Cultural Assertion and Continuity in Bousillage Construction"

Women in History

A Departmental Conversation and Panel featuring

Jennifer Allen, Deborah Coen, Carolyn Dean, and Joanna Radin

4:30pm, April 11, 2018

HGS 211

Reception to follow

Abbas Amanat appointed the Sumner Professor of History

Abbas Amanat, newly appointed as the William Graham Sumner Professor of History, is a historian of the modern Middle East, early modern and modern Iran, and Shi’ism and the Persianate world.

Andrews Society Spring Book Sale

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