Features & News

Beginning September 2023, the European Studies Council at Yale University will offer one fully funded fellowship (two years) for an incoming Master of Arts student in the European and Russian Studies...
On September 15th, 2022, the Yale Alumni Association in collaboration with CLAIS, organized a movie screening as this year´s Hispanic Heritage Month kickoff. Showing the documentary OMARA, an homage...
Bringing Brazilian Music to Yale and Beyond - Interview with Stephen Guerra This Saturday, September 24th at 4 pm, at the Luce Hall Auditorium, Stephen Guerra and Rogerio Souza will perform music by...
Students, faculty, scholars, and staff members interested or involved in Brazil-related projects gathered on Thursday, September 8th to take part in a welcoming event for the Brazilian community at...
Stephanie Newell
Stephanie Newell, whose research focuses on media audiences in colonial West Africa and creative writing, with a focus on local print cultures, has been appointed the George M. Bodman Professor of...
Teferi Adem
Council on African Studies faculty affiliate, Teferi Abate Adem, has received a 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in anthropology from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright...
New Haven, Connecticut – The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) at the MacMillan Center at Yale University has been awarded a $30,000 implementation grant...
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale is pleased to announce the increase of an annual commitment for Conference Travel Grants for Ph.D. To offset the...
Judges commented: Cajetan Iheka’s African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics foregrounds Africa’s media objects, including “oil, uranium, coltan, and banana,” as the absent presence of...
Sabine Franklin
WASHINGTON — The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is pleased to award a 2022-23 American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship to Sabine Franklin. Dr. Franklin completed her degree in...
The Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program provides opportunities for beginner English teachers from overseas to refine their teaching skills and broaden their knowledge of American...
CLAIS’s Chair, Claudia Valeggia, is well known around our office for making everyone feel welcome and respected. We were delighted to see this unique quality recognized by the broader university...