Teaching about lecturing
With more than half of Yale’s undergraduates enrolled in lecture-based classes each semester, it was fitting that the organizers of this year’s Spring Teaching Forum selected “Let’s Talk Lecture!” as their theme. Speakers presented the history of the lecture at Yale, discussed administrative reasons why lectures are widespread throughout the curriculum, and suggested strategies that instructors and students might use to maximize the effectiveness of lecture courses.
A lifetime of accomplishments
Alumnus Ernesto Zedillo ’81PhD (economics), the Frederick Iseman ’74 Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and professor of international economics and politics at Yale, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in the United States. Zedillo was president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000. Since then he has been a leading voice on globalization, especially its impact on relations between developed and developing nations. He is the chairman of the board of the Global Development Network and serves on the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, the High Level Task Force on Climate Change, and the High Level Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor.
History student wins major prize
The Organization of American Historians has awarded the 2011 Louis Pelzer Memorial Award, given for the best essay about any period or topic in American history by a graduate student, to Christine M. DeLucia (American studies). Her essay, “The Memory Frontier: Uncommon Pursuits of Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip’s War (1675–78),” revisits a conflict that took place in colonial America, destroying New England frontier settlements and decimating Native American communities. Using archives, records of oral traditions, and material culture, she examined how the Eastern Algonquians and Euro-Americans have remembered, marked, and mapped the conflict—or struggled to forget it. Much of the material was available at Yale, especially in collections at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, but she also located important materials in collections and museums across New England, Quebec, and Bermuda. The essay will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of American History.
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