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Photograph of Linda Maizels in the Humanities Quadrangle

Maizels joins Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism as inaugural managing director

March 24, 2025
This article was originally published in Yale News. The Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA) recently named Linda Maizels, a scholar of antisemitism and author...
Photograph of Monica Styles in the Humanities Quadrangle at Yale

The Whitney Humanities Center Welcomes Monica Styles

January 29, 2025
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale welcomes Monica Styles, assistant professor of Spanish at Howard University, as a faculty research fellow for spring 2025, in...
Director Asmae El Moudir holds up clay figurines from her documentary during a post-screening Q&A with graduate student film programmer Lora Maslenitsyna.

Call for Graduate Student Film Programmers: Films at the Whitney 2025–26

January 22, 2025
The Whitney Humanities Center is seeking graduate student film programmers for Films at the Whitney’s fall 2025 and spring 2026 series. Inaugurated in 2009, Films at the...
Film still from FERTILE MEMORY

Films at the Whitney Presents Palestine through Film

January 10, 2025
Mark your calendars for Films at the Whitney’s spring 2025 series: Palestine through Film. This series—along with the fall 2024 series World Documentaries Today—was selected...
Cover of Alessandro Giammei's book Ariosto in the Machine Age.

Alessandro Giammei Receives MLA’s Howard R. Marraro Prize

December 12, 2024
The Modern Language Association has awarded its twenty-eighth Howard R. Marraro Prize to Yale professor Alessandro Giammei (Italian Studies) for his book Ariosto in the...

Applications open for 2025–26 Franke Postdoctoral Fellowship: Media and Protection

September 26, 2024
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale welcomes applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship (2025–26) that will support the Spring 2026 Franke Seminar in the...

Films at the Whitney Presents “World Documentaries Today”

August 23, 2024
Mark your calendars for Films at the Whitney’s fall 2024 series, “World Documentaries Today,” curated by Ph.D. student Lora Maslenitsyna. World Documentaries Today ...