Arts and Humanities

This new cross-collection search tool provides users worldwide with online access to more than 17 million items within Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives.

This landmark refurbishment brings together 15 humanities departments, along with signature programs like Directed Studies and the Whitney Humanities Center, encouraging scholarship across disciplines and accelerating Yale’s ability to ask and answer key questions about ourselves and the world.

Building on Yale’s history of pathbreaking education and scholarship, each of the nineteen doctoral humanities programs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences considers how Yale can continue to lead in doctoral education in the humanities. The Humanities Doctoral Education Advisory Working Group’s recommendations are guiding this effort.

New and renovated spaces across campus support Yale’s continued excellence in fine arts and performance, including plans for a new state-of-the-art theater, performance, and educational facility that will serve students from the David Geffen School of Drama and Yale College’s theater and performance communities.

Yale has recruited a number of field-changing faculty members and continues to do so, at all ranks, across a broad range of departments and subjects, strengthening the university’s expertise in both traditional and emerging fields.

Located in Sterling Memorial Library, the Franke Family Digital Humanities Laboratory serves as a collaborative space for applying advanced computing to humanities-related data, accommodates a broad range of digital projects, and offers cutting-edge resources for students, faculty, and scholars.