Yale Henry Koerner Center

03/31/2026

In her most recent book, Racial Fictions, Koerner Fellow Hazel V. Carby offers a powerful critique of the racial myths that shape the world. Drawing on a rich tapestry of historical analysis, literary criticism, and cultural theory, Professor Carby interrogates racial fictions, which have been const...

09/07/2025

Six Yale faculty members who started their administrative careers at Yale went on to head major universities: Cambridge, Duke, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford, and Yale. At the invitation of the Yale Henry Koerner Center, Richard Brodhead, Andrew Hamilton, Richard....

05/29/2025

Congratulations to Koerner Fellow Deborah Davis on the release of her new book, Chinese Encounters with America. Published by Oxford University Press, it explores the diverse experiences of Chinese individuals in the U.S.

Chinese Encounters with America: Journeys that Shaped the Future of China, co-edited by Deborah Davis and by Terry Lautz, shares the stories of twelve Chinese individuals whose time in the United States profoundly impacted their lives and helped shape China’s path, especially following the normali...

04/22/2025

The Yale Koerner Center is pleased to highlight the publication of Henry James Comes Home by Peter Brooks, released by the New York Review of Books.

The Yale Koerner Center is pleased to highlight the publication of Henry James Comes Home by Peter Brooks, released by the New York Review of Books. In this work, Professor Brooks revisits Henry James’s ten-month journey across the United States in 1904—a trip the novelist undertook after more t...

03/28/2025

Four Yale faculty members who started their administrative careers here went on to head major universities: Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Duke, and New York University. At the invitation of the Yale Henry Koerner Center, they have agreed to share their experiences as leaders in higher education. The Yale...

08/16/2024

Now in its fifth edition, Alan E. Kazdin’s Methodological Issues and Strategies in Clinical Research helps readers learn how to design, conduct, analyze, and report high-quality clinical studies.

August 16, 2024Now in its fifth edition, Alan E. Kazdin’s Methodological Issues and Strategies in Clinical Research helps readers learn how to design, conduct, analyze, and report high-quality clinical studies. In the book, Dr. Kazdin brings together a wide array of authoritative articles with his...

08/15/2024

In his latest publication, Koerner Fellow Christopher Miller sheds new light on Yambo Ouologuem’s epochal 1968 novel Le Devoir de violence.

August 15, 2024In his latest publication, Koerner Fellow Christopher Miller sheds new light on Yambo Ouologuem’s epochal 1968 novel Le Devoir de violence (Bound to Violence), which won its author acclaim and then led to his disgrace on charges of plagiarism. Refusing to defend himself, Ouologuem (...

08/09/2024

In her recent book, co-authored with David Shulman, Koerner Fellow Margaret Olin presents a photographic and verbal account of the landscapes of Palestine.

August 9, 2024In her recent book, co-authored with David Shulman, Koerner Fellow Margaret Olin presents a photographic and verbal account of the landscapes of Palestine as well as encounters with Palestinians living in the occupied territories on the West Bank, in particular the South Hebron Hills a...

06/03/2024

The Koerner Center is pleased to announce the publication of its fifth volume of Intellectual Trajectories, which contains twenty-four autobiographical talks by Koerner Fellows.

May 31, 2024The Koerner Center is delighted to announce the publication of its fifth volume of Intellectual Trajectories talks. Edited by Richard H. Brodhead, the book contains twenty-four autobiographical talks by Koerner Fellows, Yale emeriti whose disciplines span the entirety of the university.....

05/23/2024

We are delighted to share the news that Koerner Fellow Richard Brodhead will serve as Yale Center for British Art's interim director.

Richard Brodhead, a former Duke president, will serve as YCBA’s interim director while Yale seeks a successor to departing director Courtney J. Martin.

04/05/2024

New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch: A Light Touch, co-edited by Brigitte Peucker and Ido Lewit, is a collection of unpublished essays that focuses on Lubitsch’s relatively obscure early German films and gives attention to Lubitsch’s popular historical epics.

This exciting collection of unpublished essays on Ernst Lubitsch addresses multiple gaps in scholarly and critical engagement with the director. His understudied early German films shed light on Jewish culture, on the relation of comedy to gender and the influence of theatre on his filmmaking. The p...