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June 1, 2023
Nominees and winners were honored for their work at a small ceremony in the Humanities Quadrangle on Friday, May 19, 2023.  Students and their families, along with faculty...
May 8, 2023
Gage won the esteemed journalism and arts award for her “nuanced and definitive portrait” of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the prize board said yesterday. She is the...
May 5, 2023
Marci Shore, the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize Awarded for teaching excellence in the humanities “Marci Shore, associate professor of history, your students have found your...
May 4, 2023
Diamonds are more than just pretty objects. Passed down over centuries, they can tell the story of their pasts. But that story isn’t always a happy one.  For many South...
April 25, 2023
Three current Yale students and three recent graduates have received Soros fellowships, which support graduate study for immigrants or children of immigrants. The Yale...
April 14, 2023
In Iran: A Modern History, Abbas Amanat combines chronological and thematic approaches, exploring events with lasting implications for modern Iran and the world. Here, Amanat...
March 30, 2023
Crystal Feimster, a historian of African-American history, U.S. women’s history, and the American South, has been appointed the next Head of Pierson College.