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

The award recognizes her continued contributions to Haitian studies and efforts to center Haitian voices in historical scholarship.

Daut was honored for her book, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.

Jacobson, Sterling Professor of American Studies and History and Professor of Black Studies, has been awarded the 2025 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize.

In this edition of Humanitas: FAS music lecturer directs gamelan performances; a new book from Jonathan Howard, Assistant Professor of English and Black studies; Ned Blackhawk contributes to a new PBS documentary; and FAS faculty win numerous prizes.

The American Society of Criminology recognized Anderson for his pioneering ethnographic research on urban crime.

Ferguson, William Robertson Coe Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Professor of American Studies and Black Studies, is widely recognized as a leading thinker on gender, race, queerness. The Gauss Seminars in Criticism are among Princeton's longest running and best-known public lecture series.

Daut, Professor of French and Black Studies, is one of three finalists for this year's prestigious history prize.

Incoming FAS faculty member Destin Jenkins is documenting the history of debt in the United States and Black governance after the Civil Rights movement.

Elizabeth Hinton, who joined the Yale faculty in 2020, is one of the nation’s leading experts on policing and mass incarceration in the United States.