Once at Center of Yale Protests, Professor Wins the School’s Highest Honor

Three years after racial protests consumed Yale’s (CT) campus and propelled a national conversation about free speech, Nicholas A. Christakis, a professor at the heart of the controversy, has been awarded the university’s highest faculty honor, the Sterling Professorship. The appointment is the latest turn in Yale’s continued reckoning with the fallout of the protests, which were ignited in 2015, in part, by an email from Professor Christakis’s wife, Erika Christakis, but quickly spread to what students said was a broader culture of racism.