August 2023 News

Professors Cécile Fromont and Didac Queralt
Cécile Fromont, Professor, History of Art, and Didac Queralt, Assistant Professor, Political Science, have been awarded the 2023 international book prizes by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center...
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...