Grant and fellowship applications will occasionally ask students for a statement of “academic good standing” from the Director of Graduate Studies to confirm eligibility for the award. These forms are completed by the Graduate Registrar (Marcy Kaufman).
Of the ten authors longlisted for this year’s National Book Award for Nonfiction, only Greg Grandin has previously been a nominee, for his 2009 book, “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Jungle City.” This year, Grandin was selected for “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America,” which Francisco Cantú praised for its efforts “to situate today’s calls to fortify our borders in relation to the centuries of racial animus that preceded them.”
Anne Gardiner Perkins ’81 arrived at Yale eight years after women were first admitted to the university as undergraduates, and by then, nobody was talking about what life was like for those pioneering female students.
In a talk at the Wilton Public Library on Sept. 10, the Yale alumna admitted that she’s “embarrassed” that, during her undergraduate years, she never asked about or tried to learn more about the first women who matriculated at the university, where she majored in history and was the first female editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News in her junior year.