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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...
Steven Wilkinson, Ban Ki-moon, and Hwansoo Kim
Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Yale on May 3rd to deliver the Coca-Cola World Fund Lecture at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies....
At the end of 2021, there were 89.3 million people around the world forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations, with nearly 60% of them being...
2022 Hecht Award Winners: Project leaders from left, Jeannette Ickovics, Kaveh Khoshnood and Carol Oladele.
Projects examining climate change and urban health, substance use disorder and mental health, and the relationship between food insecurity and hypertension have been selected as the recipients of...
Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center, Steven Wilkinson
Yale MacMillan is thrilled to share that Steven Wilkinson, the Nilekani Professor of India and South Asia and the Henry R. Luce Director at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International...
Paul Brass. Illustration: The Wire
Paul R. Brass (1936-2022), who recently passed away after a long illness, made many important contributions over his long career, but he may be best known for two terrific books on India’s linguistic...