When artist Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown came across postcards with photographs of unidentified Black women from the early 20th century, she felt an immediate kinship. "I saw them and wanted to know ...

Do American universities produce too many Ph.D.s? It’s a decades-old question that has intensified in recent years as worries about a stagnant academic-job market, record graduate-student debt, and ...

Five recent Bowdoin graduates in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program will begin PhD programs this fall, marking an especially strong year for the College’s chapter of the national ...

Sritama Chatterjee is a second-year Ph.D. student at the Department of English, University of Pittsburgh. You can find her on Twitter @SritamaBarna. When I came to the U.S.A. last year for my Ph.D., ...

To address the need for interdisciplinary scholarship that can help illuminate the complex ways that nature and culture are intertwined, the Yale Environmental Humanities Initiative has developed a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's been a sharp drop in the number of students majoring in the humanities. urbazon/E+ via Getty Images Stereotypes abound ...

The annual Celebrating the Humanities gathering was more than just a way to recognize excellence across the division. This ...

Harvard’s Arts and Humanities Division and the Mahindra Humanities Center will launch two new programs in fall 2021 to help promote undergraduate humanities research and collaboration across fields.