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Social Sciences Archive
Why I Became an American
by Farid Laroussi
May/June 2004
A Yale professor explores the identity crisis experienced by native French citizens born to immigrants from the Maghreb (Francophone northwest Africa).
For Country: The (Second) Great All-Blue Presidential Race
by Warren Goldstein '73, '83PhD
May/June 2004
As George W. Bush '68 and John Kerry '66 went out on the hustings, a historian pondered the reasons why Yale has a lock on the White House.
Flipping It
by Richard Conniff '73
May/June 2004
How lawyer Ian Ayres '81, '86JD, and economist/SOM professor Barry Nalefuff set out to change the world by looking at life upside down and sideways.
The Land That Knew Hell
by David Case
November/December 2003
For those who survived the massacres in East Timor, justice depends on historical
truth. Genocide researcher Ben Kiernan is helping them find it.
It's All Political
by James McElroy '95
May 2003
While staffing up to meet an ever-growing undergraduate demand for its courses,
the political science department is taking an ecumenical approach to the
schism between empiricists and philosophers in the field.
Training the Next
Leaders
by Bruce Fellman
March 2003
When Paul Kennedy, John Gaddis, and Charles Hill looked at their students,
they saw the next generation of top diplomats, executives, military officers,
and maybe even a U.S. president. In a course on "grand strategy," the
professors offer the "big picture" principles that can help shape
future leaders.
Rediscovering Machu
Picchu
by Bruce Fellman
December 2002
In 1911, Hiram Bingham III, a Yale professor of Latin American history, stunned
the world with his announcement that he'd located the "lost city of
the Incas." But Machu Picchu was neither lost nor was it a city. Two
scientists at the Peabody Museum of Natural History have put together an
exhibit that explains what Bingham actually found.
A Firm Foundation
by Mark Alden Branch
October 2002
Since 1953, the Ulysses S. Grant Foundation has given Yale undergraduates
a place to try teaching -- and New Haven schoolchildren the inspiration to
dream big.
The Slavery Legacy
by Mark Alden Branch
February 2002
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
is trying to demonstrate how central slavery was to America's beginnings.
A controversial recent report on Yale's ties to slavery helps prove the point.
Where We Stand
by Bruce Fellman
December 2001
A two-day conference called "Gender Matters" marked
the advancements women have made at Yale and the changes they have
effected in academia, the arts, business, and the professions. More
than 300 atendees, many of them prominent graduates, shared in charting
the road ahead.
Out of the Blue:
My Life as a Person
by Cara Worthington Fekula Hyson '77
November 2001
An alumna wonders why so many fellow Yale graduates feel compelled to trumpet
their accomplishments, and suggests there is "something missing."
A More Global Yale
by Mark Alden Branch
November 2001
Initiatives like the new Yale Center for the Study of Globalization are part
of an ongoing effort to make the Univeristy more international in scope.
Since September 11, that effort has become more complex -- and more essential.
The Birthplace of the ABCs
by Bruce Fellman
December 2000
In the late 1980s, when Yale Egyptologists John and Debby Darnell started
exploring the western desert in the land of the pharaohs, conventional wisdom
suggested they'd find nothing of interest. Conventional wisdom turned out
to be wrong.
The Forest and the Trees
by Bruce Fellman
October 1999
When the forestry school went looking for a new dean last year, the hope
was to find someone with international experience. U.N. administrator and
environmentalist James Gustave Speth '64, '69LLB has truly global reach.
Afro-Am at 30
by Bruce Fellman
Summer 1999
Born in the turbulence of the 1960s, both the African-American studies program
and cultural center have enjoyed considerable success. The increased diversity
of their constituencies is causing some changes in their missions.
Beyond Women's Studies
by Mark Alden Branch
December 1998
After 20 years, it's not just about women anymore. Renamed women's and gender
studies, the interdisciplinary undergraduate program now encompasses all
manner of investigations into questions of gender and sexuality, and not
everybody is happy about the changes.
Keep on Talkin'
by Bruce Fellman
October 1998
The discipline of linguistics was born at Yale, but during the restructuring
controversy of the early 1990s, the department was one of those slated for
elimination. The end, however, never came, and during the rebuilding process,
linguistics has emerged with new faculty, new directions, and a number of
new insights on the nature of language.
Finding the First
Farmers
by Bruce Fellman
October 1994
A chance discovery on a Syrian hill opened a window on the origins of agriculture.
This Thing Called Love
by Bruce Fellman
February 1994
People know it when they feel it, but can scientists tell us why? Two Yale
psychologists are trying.
The World as a Whole
by Bruce Fellman
December 1993
The new Institute for Biospheric Studies is drawing on a wide range of academic
departments in an interdisciplinary campaign to understand the natural environment.
Call it "crossing party lines."
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