By Sunil Amrith. Amrith is the chair of the South Asian Studies Council and recently named director of the the Whitney and Betty
MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies at Yale.
Congratulations to Sunil Amrith, the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History and Chair of SASC, who has been appointed the Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. Provost Scott Strobel announced the appointment on Wednesday, February 12.
Astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan is the first Yale faculty member to win the coveted prize, jointly awarded by the American Astronomical Society and the American Institute of Physics.
Steven Wilkinson, Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center and vice provost for global strategy, will transition to a new role leading one of the university’s largest faculties.
Michael Dove is a member of the Councils on Southeast Asian Studies and South Asian Studies and the Program in Agrarian Studies at the MacMillan Center.
