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May 20, 2020
AIHP has awarded PhD thesis support grants to Barbara Di Gennaro, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Yale University, and to Jacob Green, a doctoral...
May 11, 2020
When will the Covid-19 pandemic end? And how? According to historians, pandemics typically have two types of endings: the medical, which occurs when the incidence and death...
May 6, 2020
A romance with the concept of community has long characterized activist healthcare movements and has more recently been taken up by academic medical centers (AMCs) as a sign...
May 5, 2020
GLC Director David W. Blight talks with Assistant Professor Carolyn Roberts on Race, Health, and Medicine during the COVID 19 global pandemic. Carolyn Roberts is an...
April 28, 2020
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-...
April 20, 2020
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...
April 9, 2020
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...