On India’s 73rd Republic Day, we speak to professor Rohit De about the Constitution, its federal structure, secularism, the right to dissent and the significance of the history of the Republic. He is an associate professor of history at Yale University and author of A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic.
Ned Blackhawk, an expert on the history of indigenous people in North America, has been appointed the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and of American Studies, effective Jan. 1, 2022.
He is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the Department of History and the American Studies program and an enrolled member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada.
Jonathan Spence ’65 Ph.D., Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, whose scholarship shaped the field of China studies for half a century, died Dec. 25 at home in West Haven, Connecticut of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 85.
President Peter Salovey, noting the community’s loss, called him “unsurpassed as scholar and teacher,” and Richard C. Levin, president of Yale from 1993 to 2013, spoke of him as “a towering figure, a scholar of unique insight and imagination.”