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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...
Sunil Amrith (Photo by Bram Belloni)
Yale historian Sunil Amrith has been awarded the 2022 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for History in recognition of his examination of the historical origins of inequality within and between countries and...
Speaking alongside WHO officials and health ministers, Mobarak described his field work testing public health interventions informed by behavioral science. Professor Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, a...
Council on African Studies Program Coordinator Norah Langat at ASAA 2022 Conference
The Council on African Studies (CAS) and the Fox International Fellowship participated in the African Studies of Africa Association’s (ASAA) biennial conference, which took place at the University of...
Clockwise from top left: Marius Kothor, Amanda Joyce Hall, Doyle Calhoun, Thuto Thipe
The Council on African Studies congratulates four of its graduate affiliates on accepting tenure track positions at universities across the US. The affiliates, Doyle Calhoun, Amanda Joyce Hall,...
The whole MacMillan team sends a heartfelt congratulations to this year’s graduates, as well as all those who came back to campus last week to celebrate in person after two years of remote...
Priyamvada Natarajan
Priyamvada Natarajan, a Yale astrophysicist who explores cosmology, gravitational lensing, and black hole physics, is being honored with a Liberty Science Center (LSC) Genius Award for her extensive...