Marlene L. Daut has been named a co-winner of the twenty-sixth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

This year, over 60 faculty joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences — here, three new arrivals discuss their scholarship and hopes for teaching.

Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Sterling Professor of English, speaks with Sam Needleman of the New York Review of Books about Vermeer, Henry James, and her love of novels and suspense.

An ancient object that Assistant Professor of Classics Jessica Lamont uses in her Yale classes may not appear menacing, but in Greek antiquity it was used for malevolent purposes.

Marisa Bass, Professor of History of Art, discusses her new book, The Monument's End: Public Art and the Modern Republic.

An 1866 photograph of objects kept by soldiers at an infamous prison offered a glimpse of wartime horrors. Jennifer Raab's new book reexamines the haunting relics.

Robert Gooding-Williams is a major figure in the contemporary philosophy of race and a leading historian of Black modern social and political philosophy.

Noël Valis, a leading scholar and translator of Spanish literature, was appointed the Kingman Brewster, Jr. (B.A. 1941) Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.

Casetti was recognized for his book Screening Fears: On Protective Media.

Meet Tyler Brooke-Wilson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.