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Kathleen DuVal Receives Bancroft, Cundill Prizes for “Native Nations” Book
History professor Kathleen DuVal has been awarded both the Bancroft Prize and the Cundill Prize for her latest book, Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.
Q&A with Sharon Holland: Outsider art, the Faculty Fellowship, community work, and more
Sharon Holland is a distinguished professor of American studies. She is the author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Duke University Press, 2000); co-author of Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (DUP, 2006) with Tiya Miles; The Erotic Life of Racism (DUP, 2012), and most recently an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life (DUP, 2023). H … Read more
Research initiative continues impact: examining race and memory
What began as a temporary, three-year initiative offering support to focused research topics, the Institute’s Race, Memory, and Reckoning Initiative has now become a sustained component within the flagship Faculty Fellowship Program. The RMR initiative aims to examine the complexities of “race” in our history and institutions. Now, examining race through research will be a long-term commitment. “We’ve refocused the … Read more
Parker Reappointed IAH Director, Olson to Serve as Interim
Patricia Parker (FFP ’02, ALP ’11) has been reappointed as the Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities to be the Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. After a research leave that starts in July, Parker will continue her leadership role as IAH Director for two years with the option for renewal. While Parker is on leave, Professor Elizabeth Olson (FFP ’17, ’24; ALP ’19) of the Departmen … Read more
Fellows Hofweber, Katz Explore AI in Humanities Spaces in New Collaboration
Philosophy professor Thomas Hofweber (FFP ’15, ’25) and music professor and historian Mark Katz (FFP ’12, ALP ’13) are providing space for conversations about the aspects of life and art that AI is impacting.
Call for Nomination Applications: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is accepting applications for nomination for the NEH Summer Stipend program, due August 22, 2025, and can be submitted on Interfolio. Faculty members teaching full-time at colleges and universities must be nominated by their institutions to apply for a summer stipend. The nomination process is noted below. The National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends aim to sti … Read more
Announcing the 2025 Schwab Academic Excellence Award Winners
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is pleased to announce 27 recipients of the 2025 Schwab Academic Excellence Awards.
Yale’s Fatima El-Tayeb to Deliver 2025 Reckford Lecture
Yale University professor Fatima El-Tayeb will deliver the 2025 Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies.
Advancing Research on Central Asian Modern History and Asian Diasporic Foodscapes
After launching the Summer International Collaboration Research Grant in 2023, the Institute awarded SICR grants to associate professors Eren Tasar and Ji-Yeon Jo (FFP ’24) to conduct research in Austria and South Korea in summer 2024. Tasar used the grant to diversify the study of Islam in central Asia, while Jo’s grant supported her research on global foodscapes and gastronomic diasporas. The SICR grant provides … Read more
Meet Misha Becker, Chairs Leadership Program Co-Director
As linguistics professor Misha Becker steps in as co-director for the Chairs Leadership Program with dramatic art professor Adam Versényi, she passes on her own insights to other chairs in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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