March 2021

A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit

 
A history of U.S. involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women.
 
A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of U.S. involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From the decline of modernization programs to the rise of microcredit, Joanne Meyerowitz looks beyond familiar histories of development and explains why anti-poverty programs increasingly focused on women as the deserving poor.
 

Andy Horowitz (PhD '14, BA '03) wins prestigious Bancroft Prize for book on Hurricane Katrina

A wide-angled account of the decades of political and economic decisions that culminated in the catastrophic flooding of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and a sweeping study of the policy of Native American removal in the 1830s have won this year’s Bancroft Prize, which is considered one of the most prestigious honors in the field of A

History Research Travel Grants

The History Department will fund research travel for PhD students with two types of awards to be disbursed between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026. Funds will be dispursed as reimbursements for travel expenses once the travel has been completed.  Students must submit all receipts within 30 days of completing their travel.

Leaders of Academic Units at Yale Release Joint Statement on Anti-Asian Racism

We come together to condemn anti-Asian racism, recognizing that this week’s murders in Georgia, along with persistent violence and intimidation directed at Asians and Asian Americans elsewhere, reflect legal, economic, and social exclusions, and U.S. militarism in Asia, which are older than our contemporary moment. We call for social justice, and not the reliance on policing and carceral remedies.
 

Washington Post Opinion: "We were warned about a divided America 50 years ago. We ignored the signs." by Elizabeth Hinton

The fires in Minneapolis, Portland, Ore., and elsewhere last summer drew immediate comparison to the “long, hot summer” of 1967. Urban uprisings had erupted during every summer of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency, but the unprecedented property damage and civilian casualties in Newark and Detroit that July demanded immediate action.

Denise Ho joins ChinaFile conversation on Hong Kong’s Economic Future

Assistant Professor of History Denise Ho participated in an online forum on Hong Kong’s economic future, a publication of the ChinaFile website.  Contributors were asked to respond to the seeming paradox between Hong Kong’s new National Security Law—which critics suggested would cause the withdrawal of international capital—and estimates for Hong Kong’s economy to recover significantly in 2021.  Ho argues that the strength of Hong Kong economic future rests on its human capital, from its

Yale History launches new podcast interview series with a discussion of Mark Peterson's "The City-State of Boston"

The Yale History podcast is a new project at the History Department at Yale University that will present a series of interviews with historians from our department on a wide range of historical topics based on their research and expertise. You can find this and future episodes on the Yale History Podcast playlist on Yale’s Soundcloud or listen with the player below.
 

Jennifer Allen receives Poorvu award for excellence in teaching

Yale College Dean Marvin Chun will host a virtual reception on March 2 to honor the recipients of the annual Poorvu Family Fund for Academic Innovation award, created to recognize excellence in teaching. This year’s recipients are Yale faculty members Jennifer Allen, Aimee Cox, Wendy Gilbert, and Jonas Elbousty.

The award, given to outstanding junior faculty members at Yale who have demonstrated excellence in teaching in undergraduate programs, enables them to dedicate the summer to research essential to their development as scholars and teachers.