News

June 14, 2026
Marlene Daut, Professor of French and of Black Studies, has been selected as a 2026–2027 fellow of the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for...
June 11, 2026
Marlene L. Daut, Professor of French and of Black Studies, has been awarded the 2026 James Tait Black Prize for her book The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall...
May 18, 2026
Celebrating the Class of 2026  The Department of Black Studies congratulates our graduating seniors and our newly minted Ph.D. students! We are so proud of all that you’ve...
May 1, 2026
Cedric McCoy has been awarded the coveted Prize Teaching Fellowship for 2025-26 of the GSAS for his teaching and TFing in Michael’s MUSI 4480, Music of the Caribbean:...
April 23, 2026
Marlene Daut, who was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship! As the Guggenheim announcement notes, fellows are chosen through a rigorous application and peer review...
April 23, 2026
Daphne Brooks, who was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders...
April 21, 2026
More than five years ago, Yale Environmental Humanities was launched as a platform to highlight and support the emerging interdisciplinary conversation, across departments...
April 15, 2026
Elleza Kelley was honored by Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis as a recipient of the college’s annual teaching awards at a campus reception. Elleza Kelley is an assistant...
November 21, 2025
Professor Marlene L. Daut, has been awarded the 2025 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize for her monumental work, The First and Last King of Haiti. The HSA award committee...
November 20, 2025
Matthew Jacobson, Sterling Professor of American Studies and History and Professor of Black Studies, has been awarded the 2025 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize from the...
October 30, 2025
The American Society of Criminology recognizes Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson for his pioneering ethnographic research on urban crime. Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson has...