Virtual commencement celebrations began over the weekend for the Yale University class of 2020. Among those graduating is Henry Shapard. The 21-year-old was recently appointed principal cellist of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in Canada. That makes him one of the youngest principal cellists of a major orchestra in North America.
Even more unusual, Shapard was not a music major. The young cellist is about to receive a history degree from Yale.
On May 12, 2020, Richard Gilder, Jr. died. Above all Dick was a great New Yorker, an extraordinary and generous Yale University graduate, class of 1954, and a visionary citizen and lover of the history of his country, its flaws and its triumphs. He died just shy of his 88th birthday. He and his wife, Lois Chiles, had been living in recent months in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Each year, Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) recognizes faculty members who are exceptional advocates for the professional, scholarly and personal development of their students with the Graduate Mentor Award
The selection committee, comprised of delegates from the Graduate School and the Graduate Student Assembly, receives scores of letters from graduate students nominating outstanding mentors all over campus and in all disciplines.
Carnegie Corporation of New York congratulates the 2020 class of 27 Andrew Carnegie Fellows who were announced today. Each will receive $200,000 in philanthropic support for high-caliber scholarly research in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society.
The course certification application is for history majors that would like to apply credit for a non-history course taken at Yale or for courses taken outside of Yale. You must attach your transcript, the course syllabus, and a copy of the mid-term and/or final paper for this application to be processed.
Professor John Fabian Witt ’99 has produced a series of short Zoom lectures on the legal history of epidemics and infectious diseases in the U.S. that are accessible to the public online (see links below). The lectures were initially given as part of Professor Witt’s American Legal History course at Yale.
This working group is for graduate students across disciplines to explore and evaluate methods and theories pertaining to the study of the recent past. Founded by historians in diverse regional subfields who study a wide variety of themes and topics from the 1960s through the present, this group hopes to be an intellectual community for scholars confronting the challenges related to researching the contemporary moment from the historical perspective. The group will be guided by the following questions: How do you periodize the recent past?
GLC Director David W. Blight talks with Assistant Professor Carolyn Roberts on Race, Health, and Medicine during the COVID 19 global pandemic.
Greg Grandin ’99 Ph.D., professor of history in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, has won a Pulitzer Prize in the general nonfiction category for his book “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” (Metropolitan Books).