Gamelan performances, architectural rivalries, and a roundup of latest awards

The second part, “Lovers,” strikes by way of 11 international locations in Europe to think about the achievements of feminine architects, designers, and artists whose contributions have been overshadowed by partnerships with male architects, typically their romantic companions. The pictures spotlight the work of greater than a dozen practitioners, together with Eileen Gray, Charlotte Perriand, Nelly van Doesburg, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Truus Schröder. 

The exhibition is on view by way of Nov. 29 within the second-floor gallery at Paul Rudolph Hall, 190 York St., in New Haven.

Blackhawk on the American Revolution

The November version of The Atlantic options an article by Ned Blackhawk as a part of the journal’s “The Unfinished Revolution” sequence, exploring 250 years of the American experiment.

Blackhawk is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History in FAS; his final e book, “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History,” gained the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2023. 

In the Atlantic essay, “How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution,” Blackhawk argues that the Revolution was each impressed by the self-governance of countries just like the Iroquois Confederacy and pushed by colonists’ want “to erase the legitimacy of Native governance.” 

“Understanding this history is not a matter of diminishing the Revolution’s accomplishments, but of recognizing the contested ground from which they arose — and the Native lives, lands, and liberties they attempted to foreclose,” Blackhawk writes.

Blackhawk additionally contributed to the brand new PBS documentary, “The American Revolution,” directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, which explores the nation’s founding and War of Independence. 

Notable recognition

Faculty from throughout FAS obtained notable awards this fall — together with citations for distinctive first books, excellence in tutorial writing, and influential scholarship. 

Several members of FAS have been acknowledged for his or her lifetime contributions to their fields, together with Matthew Frye Jacobson, Sterling Professor of American Studies and History and professor of Black Studies, who was awarded the 2025 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize. The award, from the American Studies Association, acknowledges “an individual who has dedicated a lifetime of work to the mission and values of American studies.”

Marcia Inhorn, the William Okay. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, received the 2025 Association for Feminist Anthropology Career Award for her lifetime accomplishment within the subject of feminist anthropology.

And Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, was awarded the American Society of Criminology’s 2025 Edwin H. Sutherland Award for his impactful ethnographic analysis on city crime within the United States.

Other FAS members obtained awards for his or her exemplary scholarly books, together with two first e book prizes.

“The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History” (University of Chicago Press, 2024) by Naomi Levine, assistant professor of English, received the 2024 North American Victorian Studies Association Book Prize for Best First Book within the Field. 

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, assistant professor of English, was awarded the Journal of the History of Ideas’ 2024 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize for Best First Book in Intellectual History for “Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire” (Princeton University Press, 2024). 

“The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe” (Knopf, 2025) by Marlene Daut, professor of French and African Diaspora Studies, was shortlisted for the 2025 Cundill History Prize, which “recognizes and rewards the best history writing in English.”

Lisa Prevost, Mike Cummings, and Jessica Liu contributed to this column.