Housed within the Whitney Humanities Center, YPSA sponsors lectures and conferences, produces videos, and provides research grants to Yale faculty and students.
The current director of YPSA is Maurice Samuels, Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale University.
[2] After outcry over the closing of YIISA, a small group of Yale faculty met with Salovey and then-President Richard Levin to ask that a new center be created.
It also runs the Benjamin and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series, which has featured a number of talks on recent cases of Islamist terrorist attacks on Jews in Europe and elsewhere.
Beginning in 2012, YPSA launched the Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Research grants for five students and five faculty members to promote scholarship.