An excerpt of political theorist Hélène Landemore's new book, Politics Without Politicians, was recently published in Foreign Policy magazine.

A new study co-authored by Emma Zang, Associate Professor of Sociology, shows that across racial groups and the sexes, older Americans have sharply different patterns of marriage and living circumstances later in life.

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.

Smith, who joined the Yale faculty in 2005, is an authority on the culture of discipline in the United States.

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

Janet Currie, a renowned economist and pioneer in the economic analysis of child development, joined the Yale faculty in 2025

Daniel Spielman, Sterling Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Statistics and Data Science and of Mathematics, was featured in Scientific American as a leading academic calling for AI companies to be more transparent about claims that models can do pure mathematics.

Wendy Berry Mendes, whose research has transformed how we understand the effects of stress on cognition, social processes, and physiology, joined the Yale faculty in 2023.

Nicholas Turk-Browne, a renowned cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on human learning and memory, is also director of Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute.

Navin Kartik, Professor of Economics, and coauthors explore why admissions committees sometimes choose not to see test scores, offering a theory of how social pressure shapes university decisions.