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Applications open for the Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Associate in Public Humanities, Yale Department of History (due March 4)

Some highlights of Public Humanities affiliated faculty,
graduate students in the certificate program, and alumni:

Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and African American Studies, co-edited "Public Humanities and the Arts of the Present," a cluster of articles for ASAP/J, the online platform of the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present. Parhizkar also recently completed a curatorial fellowship at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York, representing (alongside Óscar Moisés Díaz) the U.S. Central American collective Tierra Narrative. They curated three bilingual virtual events that brought together Central American poets and artists from the isthmus and the U.S. diaspora. These events are now part of The Poetry Project's digital archive––you can read more here and access the event videos here.

Melissa Barton, Curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, has organized "Women, Theater, Archives: Conversations," a series of public programs in connection with the Beinecke's current exhibition, Brava! Women Make American Theater. The next program, "Collecting and Stewarding," on March 16, will focus on the complexity of uncovering and preserving records of theater and performance, and the important and often-overlooked work of women theater-makers. More information on the program series is available on the Beinecke's website.

Public Humanities affiliated faculty members Daniel HoSang and Matthew Jacobson joined over 140 artists and scholars in signing an open letter against the relocation of a Theodore Roosevelt statue from New York City to the planned Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota, which occupies Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara country.

Marc Robinson has been named the Malcolm G. Chace ’56 Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and of English, Professor of American Studies, and Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism.

Laura Wexler, Co-Director of Public Humanities at Yale and Charles H. Farnam Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, has been named a Fellow at the Hastings Center, an interdisciplinary research institute focused on social and ethical issues in health care, science, and technology. Read more about Professor Wexler and the newly-appointed fellows here.

Earlier this month, David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, published an op-ed in The Nation, "Russia, Ukraine, and the New York Times." The article is a critique of The New York Times's coverage of Russian geopolitics.

As always, we welcome any news submissions from the Public Humanities at Yale community, including publications, events, career updates, and anything else you'd like to share! Send us a note at publichumanities@yale.edu.

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Click the "START THE PUZZLE" button below to play this month's crossword puzzle: "Teach-In." This puzzle was created by Matthew Stock, Yale College '18, and Rachel Fabi, Yale College '11.

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