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… Vikramaditya Thakur completed his PhD in Anthropology at Yale. Thakur wrote his dissertation forced displacement of … or of different colonialisms. I’m the first South Asia faculty at my Department of Anthropology, University of … Tribes’ by postcolonial India for affirmative action. Both news media and academic scholarship, monopolized mostly by …

… and particularly in the Muslim world. Guest lecturers, members of the King Mohammed VI Foundation-Liberia branch and …

… MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale has given its Director’s Award to Louisa Lombard, … established in 2005. The Awards are for non-tenured Yale faculty who receive certain distinguished individual grants, … research. In addition to recognizing these junior faculty members’ accomplishments, the Director’s Awards are intended …

… of two islands’ wins British Academy’s book prize For Yale scholar Hazel Carby, one of the gratifications of … of African American Studies and American Studies in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. In the book, she shares one story … in the early 1990s. “ Imperial Intimacies” also was named one of the Books of the Year for 2019 by the Times …

… I never expected. I discovered that in 1931 a linguist named Lorenzo Turner found a Gullah woman who could sing a … to learn that a woman in Africa could also sing it. Then, seven years later during a lull in Sierra Leone’s terrible … film project. Sierra Leonean officials were excited at the news, and gave me a warmly written letter. Thomas Martin had …

… is an associate professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. He is a political and economic historian of … political scientist Michael Woldemariam. Alden comes to Yale from UCLA where he was an associate professor of African … American Studies at UCLA and a standing member of the faculty in the International Institute. Before that he taught …

… of eastern Nepal, a British linguist and anthropologist named Mark Turin was standing on a precipice late on a sunny … and Sara Shneiderman, an anthropologist, both newcomers to Yale this semester, have spent much of the past 20 years … We need to facilitate a little, to find out where the faculty and students want to work.” The strategy, in effect, …

… for ‘blowing minds,’ ‘infectious joy’ and more The five faculty members who have been awarded this year’s Yale College Undergraduate Teaching Prizes won’t be …

… for the study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of Race and Reunion: The … War in American Memory (Harvard, 2001), which received seven book awards, including the Bancroft Prize. Most … 2000). Donald W. Shriver, Jr. is Emeritus President of the Faculty and William E. Dodge Professor of Applied …