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Lillian Moore-Eissenberg is the winner of the MacMillan Center’s competitive William J. Foltz Journalism Award. Her submission, “Hidden Neighbors: For trafficked domestic workers, exploitation can be...
Maria Kaliambou is a Senior Lector in the Hellenic Studies Program and teaches folklore and Modern Greek language.
The following article appeared in the Yale Daily News on September 11, 2018: Fairy tales are a storytelling staple for children across cultures. These stories captivate young minds, allowing their...
Swedish Riksdag, the seat of the parliament of Sweden.
Over the past several years, the wave of refugees fleeing to Europe from the wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere has fueled a growth in electoral support for parties offering voters a...
Douglas Rogers, Professor of Anthropology
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale has announced the expansion of its Russian Studies program into the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian...
Alyssa Arre showing a monkey her cognitive experiment. (Photo credit: Dr. Francesca De Petrillo)
Do you think you could recognize 140 of your closest friends? What about 140 strangers? This was the challenge I faced when I began my summer research at the Trentham Monkey Forest, in Stoke-on-Trent...
A new Yale-based research initiative is developing the science needed to scale-up promising anti-poverty programs so that they can benefit the greatest number of people. The Yale Research Initiative...
Photo by Siv Channa for The Cambodia Daily.
On July 29, 2018, another parliamentary election was held in Cambodia. When the commune elections had been held on June 4, 2017, they were followed by complaints and recounts, but the official...
On August 8, the EU’s European Stability Mechanism disbursed a €15 billion tranche from its €86 billion three-year program of financial assistance for Greece and on August 20 concluded the program,...
In Rwanda, Yale student instructor Elizabeth Olatunji ’20 shows YYAS students how to access online university applications.
Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS), a flagship program of the Yale Africa Initiative, held sessions in Kigali, Rwanda July 29-Aug. 7, and in Accra, Ghana Aug. 11-20. (view slideshow) This year, the...
Brittany Williams in front of the UN House in Barbados.
Thanks to funding from the Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale I received from the MacMillan Center, I had the amazing opportunity this summer to work with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in...
Professor Magaziner with U.S. and South African teachers at the National Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg
In July, thanks to generous funding from the Robina Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) conducted the first of four trans-Atlantic teacher-...
Indra Acharja in the field in Bhutan.
The White-bellied Heron is a critically endangered heron species found only in Bhutan, Northeast India, and Myanmar. Fewer than 60 confirmed White-bellied Herons exist in the world today. While there...