An interdisciplinary look at antiquity
Members of the Yale community with a shared interest in antiquity have created the Yale Initiative for the Study of Antiquity and the Premodern world (YISAP), one of the largest groups of scholars in the world focused on civilizations and cultures that date from 3000 BCE to 1400 CE. By including the whole of the premodern world from East to West, and by involving literary scholars, archaeologists, art historians, legal historians, anthropologists, papyrologists, conservators, and numismatists, YISAP is stimulating unprecedented research agendas. Graduate students can earn a formal “qualification” by participating in the program’s workshops and seminars. For more information, go to http://www.yale.edu/yisap/.
Alumnus named successor trustee to Yale board
Peter B. Dervan ’73PhD (chemistry) was appointed a successor trustee to the Yale Corporation, the university’s governing body, by President Peter Salovey, upon completion of his six-year term as an alumni fellow of the Corporation. A prominent organic chemist, he is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1973. In 2006 Dervan was awarded the country’s highest scientific honor, the National Medal of Science, and in 2005, the Graduate School named him a Wilbur L. Cross Medalist.
Graduate student wins history prize
History graduate student Alice Baumgartner ’10 was awarded this year’s Pelzer Award from the Organization of American Historians for her essay, “The Line of Positive Safety: Borders, Boundaries, and Nations in the Rio Grande Valley, 1848–1880.” The article, which examines the role played by violence in the formation of the US–Mexican border along the Rio Grande in the nineteenth century, will be published in the Journal of American History. Over the past 15 years, Yale students have won the Pelzer Award five times. Recent Yale recipients were Christine M. DeLucia ’12PhD, 2011; Joseph Yannielli ’12PhD, 2009; Wendy Warren ’08PhD, 2006; and Elizabeth Anne Fenn ’99PhD, 1999. The remaining ten winners during this period were enrolled at ten different universities.
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