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September 14, 2021
Professor Martin Hägglund was interviewed by The Philosopher, the longest-running public philosophy journal in the UK, for the special issue devoted to his...
August 15, 2021
On August 6, 2021, Donald Kagan, Sterling professor emeritus of classics and history and former dean of Yale College died at the age of 89. 
August 10, 2021
Following the success of two pilot seminars taught in 2019 and 2020, the Humanities Department and the First-Year Seminar program are proud to launch a new...
June 13, 2021
The Humanities Program is excited to announce FOUR core seminars for the Fall of 2021.  Professor Gary Tomlinson will be teaching Western Philosophy in Four...
June 10, 2021
We recently held a major conference on “Judgment and Value in the Humanities.”
June 3, 2021
Serena Cho (HUMS ‘21) was awarded the Wrexham Prize for the best senior essay in the field of the social sciences for Making Better Citizens: The Often...