Chela Simón-Trench '25 reflects on a recent installation at Luce Hall organized by Dixita Deka, Postdoctoral Associate at the Program in Agrarian Studies.
He has been awarded the Toynbee Prize for his exceptional work on the movement of peoples as shaped by environmental forces, work that has brought the regions of South/Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to the center of global historical scholarship.
Nominator Dr. Samaya Nissanke says: “I would like to nominate Professor Priyamvada Natarajan of Yale University for the award for her outstanding contributions to excellence in science, science communication and support of STEM.”
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.
