Humanities at Yale

Yale’s home for creative experimentation across the arts, media, and emerging technologies, with studios open to the whole university.

Supports language teaching and learning across more than fifty languages taught at Yale.

Based in Sterling Memorial Library, the DHLab helps Yale scholars turn humanities questions into digital projects, from text mining to digital exhibitions.

Housed at the WHC, the Franke Program funds fellowships and hosts public events that explore the terrain where scientific and humanistic inquiry meet.

Housed at the MacMillan Center, the Gilder Lehrman Center advances knowledge about slavery and its legacies across all borders and all time.

Brings the arts, sciences, and humanities together to study and preserve cultural heritage at Yale and around the world.

An interdisciplinary graduate center for the study and practice of sacred music, worship, and the related arts.

Supports the university’s democratic mission by making humanities scholarship visible to publics beyond Yale, through courses, museum work, documentary studies, and more.

A national organization advancing criticism, theory, and scholarship in literary studies, with an annual meeting rotating among Yale, Chicago, and UC Irvine.

Brings art, music, literature, drama, writing, philosophy, history, and more into medical education at Yale School of Medicine.

Yale’s hub for international and area studies, connecting humanistic and social science inquiry across regions and disciplines.

A university-wide center advancing research and teaching on race, indigeneity, and migration across disciplines. 

Deepens understanding of how culture is intertwined with nature, through teaching, scholarship, and action at the intersection of the environment and the humanities.

Brings New Haven public high school students to Yale for free arts and humanities workshops, tours, and programs.

Housed at the WHC, the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism marshals the resources of Yale University and its faculty to study the pernicious problem of antisemitism.

Housed at the MacMillan Center, the Yale Translation Initiative supports the interdisciplinary study of translation—literary, legal, medical, and technological.

Find every film screening happening across Yale—all in one place.

A cornerstone of Yale’s film culture, bringing a humanities lens to Hollywood and world cinema classics, documentaries, and experimental films. Always free and open to all.

Holds more than 4,400 video testimonies—over 12,000 recorded hours—from Holocaust survivors, witnesses, and bystanders worldwide.

Home to more than 8,000 film elements and 50,000 video assets, the Yale Film Archive supports teaching and research through collection, preservation, access, and exhibition.

One of the world’s largest libraries devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts, and Yale’s principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books.

Yale’s dedicated library for the study of Greco-Roman antiquity, with more than 25,000 volumes covering all aspects of classical literature, language, and history.

One of the world’s foremost theological libraries, with collections in global missionary movements, biblical literature, Christian theology, and the history of Christianity.

One of the largest music libraries in the United States, with extensive holdings in scores, recordings, manuscripts, and music research materials.

Yale’s primary library for art, art history, architecture, and drama—one of the largest of its kind in North America.

Located in Farmington, Connecticut, the Lewis Walpole Library holds Yale’s premier collection of eighteenth-century British history, culture, and graphic art.

More than 1,000 instruments from around the world and across centuries, with one of the world’s finest keyboard collections, used for scholarly research and live performance.

Yale’s largest library houses three million volumes, with strengths in humanities and area studies, exhibition galleries, and more, in a stunning cathedral-like building.

An international research center housing 45,000+ tablets, seals, and artifacts that span virtually every textual genre, type, and period of ancient Mesopotamia.

Stewards the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom, offering free, year-round exhibitions and research access to all.

One of the world’s oldest natural history museums, the Peabody advances understanding of Earth’s history, life, and cultures through 12 million specimens.

The oldest university art museum in the Americas, the Gallery collects, preserves, and presents nearly 300,000 objects spanning world cultures and time periods.