page_title: List of Yale University people
section_title: Arts and humanities
hierarchical_section_title: List of Yale University people / Others / Arts and humanities
caption_attribution_description: Dansk: Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963, Tysk Komponist. Deutsch: Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963, deutscher Komponist. English: Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963, German composer. Nederlands: Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963, Duits componist.
context_page_description: Yalies are persons affiliated with Yale University, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Yalies.
context_section_description: Robert P. Abelson, late Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of Political Science
  Sydney E. Ahlstrom, historian of religion in America
  Josef Albers, artist
  Akhil Amar (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1984), law professor
  Kanichi Asakawa (Ph.D. 1902), historian, first Japanese professor at U.S. university
  Harold Bloom (Ph.D. 1955), writer and critic, author of The Anxiety of Influence, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human and many other scholarly books
  John Morton Blum, professor of political history
  Leo Braudy (Ph.D. 1967), cultural historian and film critic and theorist, author of The Frenzy of Renown, From Chivalry to Terrorism, and other works of cultural history
  Cleanth Brooks, Professor of English, world-renowned expert on writer William Faulkner
  Paul de Man, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, departments of French and Comparative Literature; literary critic posthumously controversial for articles he wrote for collaboration paper in occupied Belgium, one of which is widely held to be antisemitic
  Jacques Derrida, philosopher; held visiting professorship at invitation of Paul de Man
  Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies
  Inge Druckrey, teacher of graphic design
  Isidore Dyen, professor of comparative linguistics and Austronesian languages
  Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Francis Writer in Residence at Yale
  Bassam Frangieh, scholar of Arabic language and literature
  John Lewis Gaddis, Cold War historian
  Peter Gay, Enlightenment historian
  Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize winner, poet
  Paul Hindemith, composer, musician, conductor, music theorist
  Donald Kagan, historian of ancient Greece
  Louis I. Kahn, architect
  Paul Kennedy, historian
  Harold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale Law School, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor in the Clinton Administration
  Alvin Lustig, graphic designer
  Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), pioneer in ethnographic anthropology; professor at Cornell University, Yale University, and Harvard University
  Julián Marías, philosopher, author of History of Philosophy
  Samuel Elmo Martin (1924–2009), linguist, developed the Yale Romanization system for transliterating Korean
  James Mitchell, actor, played Palmer Cortlandt on All My Children
  David Montgomery, Professor of History
  Edmund S. Morgan, Professor of History
  Elting E. Morison, historian, essayist, military biographer, was Professor of History and American Studies as well as the master of Timothy Dwight College between 1966 and 1972
  Aldo Parisot, musician and cellist
  Jaroslav Pelikan, historian, author of The Christian Tradition
  Peter C. Perdue, historian of Modern China
  Douglas W. Rae, political theorist
  Emir Rodríguez Monegal, professor of Latin American contemporary literature, founder of Mundo Nuevo
  Vincent Scully, Sterling Professor Professor of the History of Art in Architecture
  Jonathan Spence, historian, author of The Search For Modern China
  David Underdown, historian of 17th-century England
  Lee Watson, Broadway and opera lighting designer, author and Purdue University professor
  Dixon Wecter (Ph.D. 1936), Margaret Byrne Professor of United States History at the University of California, Berkeley.
  Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History; World War I specialist
  C. Vann Woodward, professor of history
  Mary C. Wright (1917–1970), historian of China, and first woman to be appointed a full professor in the arts and sciences faculty, in 1964
  Ernesto Zedillo (Ph.D. 1981), economics teacher and head of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, president of Mexico (1994–2000)
caption: Paul Hindemith
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