Greg Grandin, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, has been awarded the 2026 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award by the Phi Beta Kappa Society for his latest book, America, América: A New History of the New World (Penguin Press, 2025).
The Emerson Award, awarded annually, recognizes “a book of scholarly studies that contributes significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.”
Brendan A. Shanahan’s award-winning book reveals how state-level policies shaped the meaning of citizenship in the United States and continue to inform today’s debates over immigration and belonging.
For a new book, Yale historian Beverly Gage explores 250 years of American history by traveling to 300 historical sites in 19 states across the U.S.
Prof. Jeffery Gould (Professor Emeritus at Indiana University) will present a talk titled “Beyond the Burdens of Labor: Minor Utopian Experiences in Central America and the Southern Cone, 1958-1985.”
LUNCH WILL BE SERVED
The Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs will host a discussion to celebrate the publication of a new book by Jackson professor David Engerman, Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made. Speakers will include the Jackson Schools’s Amit Khandelwal, Jessica Seddon, Ardina Hasanbasri and Aden Knaap.
“América First” explores the varied and formative roles the Americas–from Greenland to Patagonia–played, and continue to play, in the construction of US global power, from the nineteenth century to the present. Presentations will address the dependency between political, economic, racial, gender, and ethnic formations between North and Latin America, and how they are mediated through cross-regional migration of people, ideas, commodities.
“América First” explores the varied and formative roles the Americas–from Greenland to Patagonia–played, and continue to play, in the construction of US global power, from the nineteenth century to the present. Presentations will address the dependency between political, economic, racial, gender, and ethnic formations between North and Latin America, and how they are mediated through cross-regional migration of people, ideas, commodities.