Collège de France

“It is not an exaggeration to say that my Paris year has been the most edifying year of my graduate school career. My approach to the classics and to the history of religions has taken unexpected turns, particularly in regards to how I frame the questions and arguments of my dissertation and the theoretical apparatus that I bring to ancient material. This is a consequence not only of the opportunities afforded to me through lectures at the Collège de France but also as a result of auditing certain courses in sociology and historiography at the EPHE and the EHESS. Indeed, my time has been so rewarding that I will use a dissertation completion fellowship to remain in Paris next year to round out my graduate career. There is no doubt that I will continue to maintain and strengthen the valuable personal, professional, and institutional relationships that I have cultivated during my year at the Collège de France.” 

– Kenneth Yu, Collège de France Research Fellow, 2015-16