The Women Faculty Forum is pleased to announce Naomi Rogers and Reina Maruyama as next year’s (2020-2021) co-chairs.
Naomi Rogers has taught at Yale since the mid-...
Ashanti Shih, PhD ‘19 awarded the 2020 Rachel Carson Prize for “best dissertation” by the American Society for Environmental History for her dissertation, “Invasive Ecologies...
Yale historian Frank Snowden has long been fascinated by the ways epidemics hold up a “mirror” to the social, cultural, and political conditions in which they arise. His most...
To put the coronavirus pandemic in perspective, consider what happened when the bubonic plague struck London in 1665. The onset of the disease could be sudden, says Yale...
Movie theaters were closed. Public schools shuttered. Parades and other large social gatherings cancelled. Pandemic-wary civilians cautioned to keep away from others to best...
In his new book, “Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present,” Frank M. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at Yale, examines...
Editor’s note: Paola Bertucci’s Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France has been making waves ever since its publication in 2017. Most...
