Faculty News

Naturalizing Africa
July 17, 2019
Judges (Ryan Hediger, Erin James, Robin Murray, Jesse Oak Taylor, and Hsuan Hsu) commented: “Naturalizing Africa brings together the previously separate conversations of...
How Words Make Things Happen
July 1, 2019
Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a...
J.D. McClatchy
May 10, 2019
J.D. McClatchy was posthumously honored with the joseph W. Gordon Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Arts and Sciences by Phi Beta Kappa Society at their annuak...
Janice Carlisle
May 10, 2019
Janice Carlisle was presented with the William Clyde DeVane Medal for outstanding scholarship and undergraduate teaching by the Phi Beta Kappa Society at their annual dinner...
Jill Campbell
May 9, 2019
Jill Campbell was awarded the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss ’75 Prize for teaching excellence in the humanities at a ceremony held May 8 at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and...
Jonathan Kramnick with dog
April 30, 2019
Professor’s curiosity sparks literary course on animal life and consciousness It was with the proverbial curiosity of a cat that Yale professor Jonathan Kramnick designed his...
Donald Margulies
April 18, 2019
Nine Yale faculty members were among more than 200 individuals elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which celebrates compelling achievements in...