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  1. It takes a team to prepare Yale’s budget. Learn about some of the faculty—including two from the FAS—serving in the Budget Advisory Group and how they help Yale advance its mission.

    Clockwise from top left: Melvin Chen, Sarah Demers, Feisal Mohamed, and Andrew Metrick.
  2. Smith, who joined the Yale faculty in 2005, is an authority on the culture of discipline in the United States.

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

    Erica Edwards
  4. 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."

    A headshot of Nana Osei Quarshie alongside the cover of his 2025 book, African Pharmakon.
  5. 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.

    Detail from “Beethoven Frieze,” by Gustav Klimt.
  6. In an undergraduate course taught by Aurélie Vialette, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale students examined historical objects from the Spanish Civil War — and engaged with history hands-on in Barcelona.

    Vialette with students (Photo by Dan Renzetti)
  7. In a Q&A, James Uden, Professor of Classics, discusses the “intense joy of life” in Roman culture, why Latin has so few poems about public bathing, and finding a good sake bar in New Haven.

    James Uden
  8. Faculty and students in Yale's Creative Writing program reflect on the craft of writing, the power of workshops, and their favorite writing advice.

    Words written in chalk on a blackboard read: "Write a poem that is an invitation." Photo courtesy of Marie-Helene Bertino.
  9. John Fabian Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law and Professor of History, speaks to Yale News about his new book about how a little-known foundation funded by a wealthy banking heir sought to bring about a more just society in the first half of the 20th century.

    John Fabian Witt alongside the cover of his book, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.
  10. The award recognizes her continued contributions to Haitian studies and efforts to center Haitian voices in historical scholarship.

    Marlene Daut poses for a portrait before sitting down with The Haitian Times. Photo credit: Bill Farrington for The Haitian Times.