Curated category
Yale University alumni
- Richard PoirierRichard Poirier entered the world on Gloucester, Massachusetts, the 9th of September 1925. His academic journey began at Amherst College before he moved to…
- Jon ParelesJon Pareles was born in 1953 within the quiet borders of Connecticut. His early life unfolded through the keys of a piano and the mouthpiece of a jazz flute.
- Raymond L. GarthoffRaymond Leonard Garthoff received his bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University in 1948. He then earned a master of arts degree from Yale the…
- Kenneth PomeranzKenneth Pomeranz was born on the 4th of November 1958. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1980.
- Stephen Holmes (political scientist)Stephen Holmes was born on the 21st of February 1948. He began his higher education journey at Denison University in Ohio.
- Lewis GordonLewis Ricardo Gordon was born on the 12th of May 1962. He began his higher education journey at Lehman College, CUNY, graduating in 1984 with a Bachelor of…
- Paul KrugmanPaul Robin Krugman was born on the 28th of February 1953 in Albany, New York. He spent his early years moving between upstate cities before settling into…
- Warren Sturgis McCullochWarren Sturgis McCulloch was born in Orange, New Jersey on the 16th of November 1898. He originally planned to join the Christian ministry as a teenager.
- Shawn LevyShawn Adam Levy was born on the 23rd of July 1968 in Montreal, Quebec. He grew up in a Jewish family with two sisters named Jodi and Debby.
- Daniel YerginDaniel Howard Yergin arrived in the world on the 6th of February 1947. He grew up in Los Angeles, California. His father Irving worked at Warner Brothers and…
- Eli WhitneyEli Whitney Jr. arrived in the world on the 8th of December 1765, within a quiet town called Westborough, Massachusetts. His father Eli Whitney Sr.
- Maurice PodoloffMaurice Podoloff was born to a Russian Jewish family in the Russian Empire on or about the 18th of August 1890. Doubt remains about his exact birthplace and…
- Richard Taylor (Confederate general)Richard Taylor was born on the 27th of January, 1826 at Springfield. This plantation sat near Louisville in Kentucky as his family home.
- Stephen GreenblattStephen Jay Greenblatt arrived in the world on the 7th of November 1943. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts after his family moved from Boston.
- Joel MokyrJoel Mokyr was born in Leiden, Netherlands, on the 26th of July 1946. His family were Dutch Jews who had survived the Holocaust before his birth.