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  1. In a new book, Yale historian Lauren Benton explores the rampant — and seemingly incessant — small wars that shaped imperial power between 1400 and 1900.

    Lauren Benton
  2. In a new study, Yale researcher Alison Sweeney found that giant clams in the Western Pacific may be the most efficient solar energy system on the planet.

    Giant Clam
  3. Yale’s Jacob McNulty — a scholar of Hegel, Marcuse, and other European philosophers — explores subjects such as the nature of reality and rational thought, what drives history and politics, and the metaphysical underpinnings of human interaction.

    Jacob McNulty
  4. Yale climate scientist Alexey Fedorov explains the reasons why experts are predicting a more active Atlantic hurricane season.

    Hurricane
  5. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a professor in the practice at Yale, was honored for the best revival of a play during the annual Tony Awards ceremony on Sunday.

    Jacobs-Jenkins
  6. In a new book, Yale’s Michael E. Veal draws on the language of architecture and photography to show how John Coltrane and Miles Davis transformed modern jazz.

    Michael E. Veal
  7. Through a novel approach, Yale researchers translate data from monkeys to better understand how paranoia arises in the human brain.

    paranoia
  8. In her new book, Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press), Marlene L. Daut, Professor of French and of African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, focuses on the work of Haitian scholars and historians who have been silenced for centuries.

  9. Regina Kunzel’s new book explores the psychiatric treatment of queer and gender-variant people, often through patients’ own writing.

    Regina Kunzel
  10. Ángel Escamilla García, a sociologist in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is working to understand the experiences of vulnerable groups migrating from Latin America to the U.S., and how cultural forces such as linguistic isolation shape them.

    Ángel Escamilla García