News
May 23, 2022
We were deeply saddened to learn of the death of our friend John Merriman on May 22. A historian of modern France, a master teacher whose Open Yale Courses reached thousands...
April 24, 2022
Yale graduate student Allegra Ayida (History) was selected to speak at Desert Futures: Sahara next week. Allegra is a WHC Graduate Fellow in the Environmental Humanities and...
March 25, 2022
The Whitney Humanities Center will host Canadian author Sheila Heti as a Franke Visiting Fellow during the fall 2022 semester.
Sheila Heti’s literary oeuvre comprises...
March 24, 2022
Last week, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke ’97 made the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction. O’Rourke is editor of...
March 23, 2022
Films at the Whitney is ramping back up after two long years away.
On March 3, 2022, the screening room in the lower level of the Humanities Quadrangle—affectionately known...
March 18, 2022
What happens when we think of the desert not as a margin, but as a center and a focus of study? Jill Jarvis from the Department of French discusses the genesis of “Desert...
December 13, 2021
The Whitney Humanities Center mourns the death of our friend and colleague Tyler Stovall (1954–2021). Historian of France and the Francophone world, former president of the...