A new study co-authored by Emma Zang, Associate Professor of Sociology, shows that across racial groups and the sexes, older Americans have sharply different patterns of marriage and living circumstances later in life.

Smith, who joined the Yale faculty in 2005, is an authority on the culture of discipline in the United States.

Edwards, who joined the Yale faculty in 2022, has done field-leading work at the intersections of African American literature, politics, and gender critique.

Janet Currie, a renowned economist and pioneer in the economic analysis of child development, joined the Yale faculty in 2025

Wendy Berry Mendes, whose research has transformed how we understand the effects of stress on cognition, social processes, and physiology, joined the Yale faculty in 2023.

Nicholas Turk-Browne, a renowned cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on human learning and memory, is also director of Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute.

Navin Kartik, Professor of Economics, and coauthors explore why admissions committees sometimes choose not to see test scores, offering a theory of how social pressure shapes university decisions.

The Chronicle noted that Quarshie, Assistant Professor of History and of Anthropology and in the History of Medicine, "takes no shortcuts" to understanding the history of psychiatry in Ghana in his 2025 book "African Pharmakon: The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return."

Using gravitational wave measurements, an international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes a research team led by Chiara Mingarelli, Assistant Professor of Physics, has identified two black hole binary candidates — named, in part, after locales in “The Lord of the Rings.”

In this edition of Humanitas, a new course invites students to take a trip back to 1900 Vienna and the “Best of 2025” lists that featured faculty publications.