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.

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

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.

Do some anti-smoking policies help push people naturally predisposed to nicotine use into groups that actually reinforce the behavior? For Yale’s Ramina Sotoudeh, whose research integrates genetics and sociology, questions like this are all in a day’s work.

Two Yale-led studies indicate the promise of finding hybrid approaches to developing alternative solar fuels.

Cynthia Zarin, Senior Lecturer in English in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, discusses writing Inverno and the way characters remember – and misremember – their lives

Field-based research is integral to science, but logistical constraints limit who can do the work. A Yale researcher wants to lower the barriers.

In this edition of “Humanitas,” a Yale lecturer wins a Pulitzer Prize, a playwright receives a Tony nomination, and YSA architects tackle the climate challenge.

Nicholas Christakis and James Mayer were elected to the academy, one of the highest honors bestowed on a U.S. scientist or engineer.

Across the African diaspora, Black women must live up to political and social obligations and gendered expectations. But while concepts like “Black Girl Magic” and Black excellence provide empowering narratives, can they also become a source of social pressure? This is the kind of question that Kaiama L. Glover investigates through her scholarship on African diasporic literature.