Carolyn Roberts and Fabian Drixler featured on PBS documentary, "The Violence Paradox"
Professors Carolyn Roberts and Fabian Drixler are featured on the PBS/Nova documentary, “The Violence Paradox.”
November 2019
Robert Harms Book Talk: Land of Tears
Robert Harms will discuss his book “Land of Tears”, an epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa.
Odd Arne Westad talks about Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
Odd Arne Westad talks about Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations.
Professor Westad is a scholar of modern international and global history, with a specialization in the history of eastern Asia since the 18th century. He has published sixteen books, most of which deal with twentieth century Asian and global history.
Joanne Freeman named the Class of 1954 Professor of American History
Joanne B. Freeman, recently appointed as the Class of 1954 Professor of American History, is a leading historian of the politics and political culture of the Revolutionary era and early national periods of American history.
Yale Daily News: Professors open the pages on writing process
History and religious studies professor Carlos Eire GRD ’79 knows what it takes to write a book and juggle the exhaustive duties of a Yale professorship.
After all, one book took him 17 years to complete and as a Yale professor he said his time is already filled with committee meetings, classes and administrative commitments. He said that during the year, he cannot dedicate the intense labor writing a book requires. Unlike the two memoirs he has penned, his latest project was research-based and needed even more time, Eire said.
Carolyn J. Dean talks about The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide
Professor Dean is a historian of modern Europe with a focus on the twentieth century whose work explores the intersection of ideas and culture, most recently in the context of genocide. She is the author of several books that focus on the historical and cultural representation of victims, including Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust and The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust. She has also written extensively about gender and sexuality in France and on the intellectual history of French theory.
Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Lorado Wilner awarded Modern Studies Association book prize for an edition, anthology, or essay collection
Franz Boas has received considerable attention from scholars in recent decades, so his roles formulating the disciplinary methods of anthropology, countering pseudo-scientific racisms, and mentoring a highly diverse and influential group of intellectuals are well known.