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An aerial view of the coastal city of Beirut, Lebanon, alongside headshots of Myers and Saab
They overlapped in their time as doctoral candidates at Yale—Robert Myers ’95 PhD in the Spanish and Portuguese department, and Nada Saab ’92 MPhil, ’03 PhD in the Departments of Near Eastern...
Large group photo outdoors in front of the Yale Divinity Marquand Chapel
On May 8-10, 2023, about 100 current Fox Fellows, alumni, and friends attended the 4th Fox International Fellowship Reunion at Yale University to discuss recent lessons learned on the importance of...
A view of a historic street in Vilnius, with Lithuanian flags hanging on either side of the doorway
The European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale continues to expand its Baltic Studies Program, an interdisciplinary forum for the study of the Baltic...
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...
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...