Laura Wexler, whose work on gender, race, photography, and film has transformed understandings of U.S. history, has been appointed the Charles H. Farnam Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and of American Studies.

Ned Blackhawk's work bridges the fields of U.S. western history, early American history, and Native American studies. He joined the Yale faculty in 2009.

Four Yale professors whose teaching and mentorship have inspired generations of students were recently honored by the university's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

A member of Yale's faculty since 1992, Andrew Barron is an expert on statistical information theory, probability limit theorems, and neural networks.

A new Yale study's findings could upend previous understanding of the tiny phytoplankton's role in everything from the rise of whales to the carbon cycle.

A new study, co-authored by Yale's Eric Sargis, finds barking hyraxes — small, herbivorous mammals — to be a separate species from their shrieking neighbors.

Our guest is the well-regarded historian Elizabeth Hinton, who is an associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University as well as a professor of law at Yale Law School. Her book is "America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s." Per a front-page review of this work in The New York Times Book Review: "[A] groundbreaking, deeply researched, and profoundly heart-rending account of the origins of our national crisis of police violence against Black America.... 'America on Fire' is more than a brilliant guided tour through our nation's morally ruinous past. It reveals the deep roots of the current movement to reject a system of law enforcement that defines as the problem the very people who continue to seek to liberate themselves from racial oppression.

Meet Marcel Elias, an assistant professor of English with expertise in medieval and French literature.

While working on an 85-million-year-long record of fish and shark abundance, researchers discovered a massive die-off of sharks roughly 19 million years ago.

In both 2020 and 2021, the Abel Prize — considered by many the Nobel Prize of math — was awarded to a Yale-affiliated mathematician.