On August 20, Alexei Navalny became violently ill on a flight to Moscow from Tomsk, where he had been campaigning in advance of Russia’s local and regional elections. After an emergency landing in...
Popular views of the explorer see him as intrepid adventurer or bungling murderer. But he was also a religious crusader.
The following interview with Alan Mikhail, Professor of History, appeared in...
The Middle East Studies Association has chosen Choon Hwee Koh’s “The Sublime Post: A History of Empire and Power through the Ottoman Post Station System, 1600-1839” for its 2020 Malcolm H....
On August 20, Alexei Navalny, the foremost democratic opposition activist in Russia, became violently ill on a flight to Moscow from Tomsk, where he had been campaigning in advance of the September...
The Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) will launch its “Global Health Conversation Series” in October with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
When they gathered in Brussels last Thursday for the two-day meeting of the European Council, the 27 leaders of the EU member states faced a full agenda—the dramatic increase in Covid-19 infections...
The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) has selected Camille Cole’s “Empire on Edge: Land, Law, and Capital in Gilded Age Basra” for its Dissertation Award for 2020....
Klara Wojtkowska, a graduate of the African Studies M.A. program (2013), has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant to Zimbabwe. In the following interview in the Fulbrighter, she talks about her...
After two weeks of meetings of the chief negotiators and their teams in specialized sessions, the EU and UK negotiating teams, led respectively by Michel Barnier and David Frost, met in Brussels this...
The following interview with James Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and Founder of the Agrarian Studies Program at the MacMillan Center, appeared in Slate...
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center has announced the finalists for its 22nd annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most...
After two weeks of meetings of the chief negotiators and their teams in specialized sessions, the EU and UK negotiating teams, led respectively by Michel Barnier and David Frost, are meeting in...