The second section, “Lovers,” moves through 11 countries in Europe to consider the achievements of female architects, designers, and artists whose contributions were overshadowed by partnerships with male architects, often their romantic partners. The photos highlight the work of more than a dozen practitioners, including Eileen Gray, Charlotte Perriand, Nelly van Doesburg, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Truus Schröder.
The exhibition is on view through Nov. 29 in the second-floor gallery at Paul Rudolph Hall, 190 York St., in New Haven.
Blackhawk on the American Revolution
The November edition of The Atlantic features an article by Ned Blackhawk as part of the magazine’s “The Unfinished Revolution” series, exploring 250 years of the American experiment.
Blackhawk is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History in FAS; his last book, “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History,” won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2023.
In the Atlantic essay, “How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution,” Blackhawk argues that the Revolution was both inspired by the self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy and driven by colonists’ need “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 also contributed to the 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 across FAS received notable awards this fall — including citations for exceptional first books, excellence in academic writing, and influential scholarship.
Several members of FAS were recognized for their lifetime contributions to their fields, including 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, recognizes “an individual who has dedicated a lifetime of work to the mission and values of American studies.”
Marcia Inhorn, the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, received the 2025 Association for Feminist Anthropology Career Award for her lifetime accomplishment in the field 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 research on urban crime in the United States.
Other FAS members received awards for their exemplary scholarly books, including two first 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 in 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.