Although Yale’s Medieval Studies Program is small, our graduate student community includes people from a very wide range of backgrounds, intellectual and personal.
We bring that diversity to every aspect of the graduate experience, including our fields of study and scholarly methods. Current students’ research interests range from Late Antique West Asia to early Colonial Latin America, and encompass a dozen languages, with particular centers of strength in medieval Latin, Arabic, Coptic, and Greek. Students in Yale Medieval Studies are also at the forefront of developing research methods, including conservation science and machine learning techniques. Two long-running speaker series, Medieval Lunch and Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies, are graduate student organized and bring together medievalists from across campus and around the globe.
In New Haven, graduate students enjoy many pursuits outside their studies, including local sports leagues, choral singing, hiking, and birding. They also travel often to further their research, visiting libraries, archives, and archaeological sites across the world.
Events and Working Groups
Medieval Studies students organize two ongoing speaker series during the semester: Medieval Lunch and Yale Lectures in Medieval Studies. All are welcome at these events.