A new anthology edited by Yale’s Daphne Brooks (William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Black Studies and Professor of American Studies) reflects on the pop icons’ lasting legacies 10 years after their deaths.

Yale’s Daniel Martinez HoSang, Professor of American Studies, has received a 2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to support his research into political polarization and to identify potential solutions.

The new members, who have made key contributions in a range of fields, join previously elected fellows in helping to “advance the common good” across the arts, democracy, education, global affairs, and science.

Dudley, Professor of Anthropology and American Studies, received the lifetime achievement award in honor of her outstanding contributions to the anthropological study of work.

In a new undergraduate course co-taught by Julián Posada, Assistant Professor of American Studies, and Ted Kim, Professor of Computer Science, Yale students learn to think deeply and critically about the technology that surrounds them.

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

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.

Professor of American Studies Daniel Martinez HoSang writes a multimedia essay for the New York Times about the shift of nonwhite voters in the U.S. to the right.

Albert Laguna, Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, & Migration, speaks to Connecticut Public about his upcoming class, "Bad Bunny: Musical Aesthetics and Politics."

Laura Wexler, Charles H. Farnam Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, wrote and edited “Magnum America: The United States,” an extraordinary new collection of more than 600 photos of the United States since World War II.