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Updated date and instructor for Intro to Public Humanities 

(AMST 403 / AMST 903 / HIST 746 / PHUM 903)

Applications open for the Spring 2022 Public Humanities Micro-Credential:
Social Practice: Problems and Possibilities (due January 28)

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:

Candace Borders, PhD candidate in American Studies and African American Studies, has published an essay, "Strategies of Liberation: Black Women and Refusal in St. Louis," in the exhibition catalog for the Stories of Resistance exhibit at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Read more about the catalog and purchase a copy via the museum's website.

Aanchal Saraf, PhD candidate in American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, has published "Feeling Seen in Sort Of: On Queer Feelings and the Company of Others" in Literary Hub. Saraf's piece reflects on the new HBO Max series Sort Of and its depictions of queer and trans intimacy.

Peter Leonard, Director of the Yale Digital Humanities Lab, Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass, Collections Data Manager at the Yale Center for British Art, and Yer Vang-Cohen, Data and Database Administrator at the Yale University Art Gallery, have been awarded a $150,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant for their project Enriching Exhibition Scholarship: Reconciling Knowledge Graphs and Social Media from Newspaper Articles to Twitter. 

Melissa Barton, Curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, has curated Brava! Women Make American Theater, a new exhibition that will be on view January 31–June 30, 2022. The exhibition is a "celebration of women in every aspect of American theater making." Visit the Beinecke's website for more information on the exhibition and the Women, Theater, Archives: Conversations event series.

Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, has published "Del Rio and the Call for Migrant Justice" in The New Yorker. Schmidt Camacho's piece highlights "the centrality of racism—and anti-Black racism in particular—to the conduct and character of U.S. border policing" and uplifts migrant-led movements for justice and abolition.

Daphne Brooks, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music, has published "The Vitality of Black Criticism" in The New York Times. Brooks' piece reflects on the recent passing of cultural critic Greg Tate and includes excerpts of an April 2021 roundtable with Brooks, Tate, Thulani Davis, Wesley Morris, and Danyel Smith.

Wai Chee Dimock, Professor Emerita of American Studies and English, has published an op-ed in The Hill, titled "Can NASA help save the planet? Yes, with indigenous partners." Dimock's piece calls for Indigenous knowledge and sovereignty to be centered in climate change research and policymaking.

Paul Sabin, Professor of History and American Studies, has published an op-ed in The Washington Post, titled "Government regulation is vital, but it also needs to be efficient." Sabin was a featured speaker in our Democracy in America series last January; check out his archived conversation with Matt Jacobson, "Thinking Historically about the Future of Energy and Climate," on our YouTube channel.

Jacqueline Goldsby has been appointed the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of African American Studies and English, in recognition of the "new avenues for African American studies and the study of literature" that her work has opened, both at Yale and beyond.

Jennifer Klein has been appointed the Bradford Durfee Professor of History, in recognition of her "groundbreaking work... on U.S. labor, care, social policy, and economic security."

Laura Wexler has been appointed the Farnam Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, in recognition of her "work on gender, race, photography, and film, which has transformed understandings of U.S. history." Professor Wexler is the co-director of Public Humanities at Yale and has long been involved with community-engaged and digital humanities projects at Yale.

Ned Blackhawk has been appointed the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies, in recognition of his work bridging "the fields of U.S. western history, early American history, and Native American studies."

Gary Tomlinson has been appointed the Sterling Professor of Music and of Humanities, in recognition of his work expanding musicology "to encompass questions about human evolution and the nature of culture and creativity."

Puzzling The Humanities

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

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