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November 13, 2017
Citations for the John C. Burnham Early Career Award 2017 Prize: Joanna Radin, “Rescaling Colonial Life From the Indigenous to the Alien: The Late 20th Century Search for...
November 8, 2017
The Social Science History Association has awarded Bill Rankin the President’s Book Prize for After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in...
November 8, 2017
Paola Bertucci will be speaking at the Sterling Memorial Library on Thursday, November 30th about her new book Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old...
November 7, 2017
Many of us have donated tissue for research without knowing it, according to Joanna Radin, Ph.D., associate professor in the history of medicine. If we’ve had a blood test or...
October 30, 2017
This weekend the Society for the History of Technology awarded Bill Rankin the 2017 Sidney Edelstein Prize for the best book in the history of technology. The award was for...
October 27, 2017
According to Chitra Ramalingam, the assistant curator of photography at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) who is also a lecturer in History and in the program in...
October 26, 2017
MAKING ODDKIN: STORY TELLING FOR EARTHLY SURVIVAL On the occasion of receiving the Wilbur L. Cross Medal for Distinguished Alumni, one of Yale’s highest honors, Donna J....