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Frances Rosenbluth, the Damon Wells Professor of Political Science. (Photo credit: Michael Marsland)
Words like “amazing,” “superb,” and “fantastic” are understatements when it comes to describing Frances Rosenbluth, the Damon Wells Professor of Political Science, said Yale College senior Johannes...
Marci Shore, associate professor of history and a member of the European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center, has been awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. ...
The following Op-Ed was written by Bruce Ackerman, a professor at Yale Law School, member of the European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center, and the author of “The Decline and Fall of the...
Barcelona protest against detention of pro-independence leaders, April 15, 2018.
Catalonia update: Months later, still no government and another election looming Almost six months have passed since the parliament of Catalonia voted last October, after the Oct. 1 referendum, to...
The Russian Studies Program at Yale will host a conference titled, “Regime Evolution, Institutional Change, and Social Transformation in Russia: Lessons for Political Science,” on April 27-28. The...
Susan Stokes, Chair, Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, delivered the conference’s opening address.
The Third Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Conference (SDLAC) was hosted on April 7 at the School of the Environment. SDLAC is a student-run initiative, created with the...
History Ph.D. candidate Camille Cole recently received the Joel A. Tarr Prize for the best article, published in either a journal or edited volume, on the relationship between technology and the...
On April 9, the MacMillan Center hosted Rory Stewart, OBE, as the speaker for the annual George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in International Studies. A diplomat and a writer, Stewart currently serves...
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale has given its Director’s Award to Louisa Lombard, Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Lombard is a cultural...
Maile Speakman at the birthplace of Jose Marti, father of the Cuban struggle for independence.
Maile Speakman, an American Studies doctoral student ’22, wrote the following article about her return to Cuba as the Teaching Fellow for the “History and Culture of Cuba” course a decade later....
The Modern Slavery Working Group
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, part of the MacMillan Center at Yale University, is pleased to announce the progress of its Modern Slavery Working Group...
Nigeria, one of the world’s most religious nations—where religious identity and religious freedom are considered of primary importance—continues to experience high levels of distrust between persons...