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Frederick Douglass
New Haven, Conn.— Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today announced the finalists for the twenty-fifth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize,...
Melissa Brown Goodall, Deputy Director of the Yale MacMillan Center
Dr. Melissa Brown Goodall has joined the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale as Deputy Director. In this role, she will help guide the Center’s overall...
FLTAs pose for a group photo in Luce Hall's Common Room
The MacMillan Center extended a warm welcome to the 2023-24 cohort of Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTAs) at their orientation this week. They will assist Yale’s faculty in teaching...
Tom Thurston with a group of CT and Sierra Leonean history teachers at the Amistad Memorial in New Haven, CT (2019)
On Friday, August 11, Thomas Thurston ’07 M.Phil. will retire from his role as Director of Education and Public Outreach at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and...
Researchers surveyed women from low-income households in Amman, Jordan — both Syrian refugees and Jordanians — to assess the makeup of their social networks and better understand how those networks affect their senses of empowerment and well-being. (Photo courtesy of Catherine Panter-Brick)
A first-of-its-kind study examines the social networks of women from low-income households, including Syrian refugees, in Amman, Jordan.
Sterling Professor Emeritus James C. Scott
The Council on Southeast Asian Studies at Yale’s MacMillan Center is delighted to announce that James C. Scott, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Anthropology and longtime...
June 20 is World Refugee Day designated by the UN General Assembly. At Yale’s MacMillan Center, the Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses (PRFDHR) celebrates World...
Seated in front row, from left: Boojin Lee, President and CEO of Hotel Shilla, Hwansoo Kim, Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies. Standing in second row, from left, Ingyu Han, President and COO, Hotel Shilla, Injoong Kim, Assistant Director CEAS, Hongnam Kim, Kathy Rupp, Program Director CEAS
On June 2 in Seoul, Hotel Shilla and the Council on East Asian Studies at the MacMillan Center signed an agreement for in-kind support for Korean Studies at Yale University. This agreement aims to...
Eckart Frahm
In his new book, Eckart Frahm describes the rise of Assyria from a peaceful city-state to a combative imperial power.
Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah delivers a lecture at Yale's HQ
On April 19, the Council on African Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center hosted Nobel Laureate and celebrated author Abdulrazak Gurnah for a two-day visit to campus. At Yale, Gurnah met with students...
Architect Shigeru Ban speaks to the audience at Hastings Hall
Internationally renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban visited Yale on April 24 to deliver a lecture on “Balancing Architectural Works and Social Contributions” at the joint invitation of the Yale...
Travis Zadeh
Yale’s Travis Zadeh discusses his new book, “Wonders and Rarities,” which examines a seminal 13th-century work of natural history and cosmology.