Kathryn Lofton, Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies and Professor of History and Divinity, has received the 2026 John T. Hubbell Prize for her article “Great Excitement Prevails: The American Lynching Myth.”

In a new book, Assistant Professor of American Studies Julián Posada explores the experiences of the low-paid workers who generate the massive amounts of data needed for artificial intelligence.

A translation by Marta Figlerowicz, Professor of Comparative Literature, has received the 2026 Modernist Studies Association Translation Prize for "The Bad Child: A Maria Janion Reader," a collection exploring nationalism, identity, and cultural history through the writings of Polish intellectual Maria Janion.

The prize recognized Assistant Professor of English Marcel Elias's "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" as Best First Monograph on a topic dealing with late-medieval literature published in 2024 or 2025.

For our new faculty spotlight series, we asked incoming FAS faculty member Vincent Brown, David Brion Davis Professor of History about their teaching, field of research, and thoughts on joining Yale.

Jessica Lamont, Associate Professor of Classics, and David Knight, Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Sociology, were recently awarded fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in the for the 2026-27 academic year.

This new video highlights three scholars — Cosmochemist Damanveer Grewal, Egyptologist Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, and Data Scientist Johan Ugander — who joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the Fall of 2025.

With the recent release of Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited film adaptation, Benedek Kruchió, Assistant Professor of Classics, considers how the “poem of multitudes” has been adapted and reimagined over millennia.

A new study co-written by Eckart Frahm, the John M. Musser Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, provides evidence that the ancient kingdom of Assyria had three more kings than previously thought.

Sunil Amrith, Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History and Vice Provost for International Affairs, was recently named to the 2026 class of “Great Immigrants, Great Americans” by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation