From the Director
Welcome to our 2024 Impact Report!
This year, Yale warmly welcomed a new president, Maurie McInnis. In her first address to the Yale community, President McInnis spoke of fostering curiosity, making connections across disciplines and interests, and ensuring that our pursuit of excellence leads to positive impacts around the world. That describes what we do at MacMillan very well.
Our faculty and students address international and regional questions with deep area knowledge and through a variety of disciplinary perspectives, helping us to understand the complexities of our world, past and present. Every year, we support faculty and students to travel across the world, where they research, learn, and engage with local scholars and communities. We also welcome hundreds of visitors to our own campus, some for a day or two, others for a semester or longer, where they spark new conversations through their research, teaching, and presence in our community.
This is my final letter as MacMillan director, as I have begun a new role as the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a new director will take over at the beginning of March 2025 . My time here has been immensely rewarding, as I have worked with our terrific faculty and sta to build new research initiatives, increase our research support, and broaden our international course o erings and language teaching. MacMillan is in robust intellectual, organizational, and financial shape. I am sure that under its next director, MacMillan will continue to build a future shaped by deeper insights, innovation, and collaborative action.
This Impact Report will give you a good sense of the immense variety of research and programming being done here at MacMillan, and MacMillan’s key role in educating Yale students and the Yale community about the world in all its complexity and richness. I invite you to explore all that MacMillan does.
Best,
Steven I. Wilkinson
Henry R. Luce Director (2019 – 2024)
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies
Nilekani Professor of Political Science
JANUARY 2025
OUR STRATEGY
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale pursues excellence in research, teaching, and capacity-building across societies to bring about a more informed, inclusive, and flourishing world.
OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING
In 2023 , the Center underwent a stakeholder engagement process to ensure that our mission statement reflects our purpose on campus and our role in Yale’s international presence. This resulted in a refined mission statement and a set of core values that should be evident in all we do.
Building on this, in 2024 we developed and launched our strategic plan. Organized by three aspirations connect, research, and lead —this five-year document charts a course to build upon the Center’s unique strengths and to deepen and broaden its world-class scholarship while supporting the next generation of global leaders. The broad and inclusive nature of this document allows each of our councils and programs to establish robust and unique priorities for their own programming while contributing to the MacMillan Center's cohesive presence on campus and in the world.
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connect: Foster community and partnerships on campus, in our community, with peer institutions, and around the world.
MacMillan brings together geographically, culturally, and ideologically diverse scholars, practitioners, and organizations and we collaborate with a range of partners across the globe for research, programming, and exchanges. We will embrace and maximize this identity through four actions:
Be a central international hub for the Yale community.
Nurture and grow our connections to faculty and students throughout Yale.
Expand our reach and scope through partnerships.
Foster and enhance relationships with alumni and friends around the world.
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research: Support the generation and dissemination of knowledge to enhance understanding of the world and in the world.
MacMillan o ers Yale faculty opportunities to pursue regional and international research and connect with diverse colleagues from throughout the University and beyond. We are committed to growing our support of excellent research in three ways:
Cultivate multiyear, multidisciplinary programs that explore transnational topics.
Showcase the value of regional studies.
Catalyze and facilitate fresh research.
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lead: Leverage our intellectual and programmatic contributions to inform a more inclusive and flourishing world.
Yale is committed to improving the world today and for future generations. As the University’s international hub, MacMillan plays a central role in supporting outstanding research and scholarship, excellent education, culturally conscious preservation, and dynamic and e ective practice. In our strategic planning, this tack is shaped in three ways:
Educate and inspire aspiring leaders who will go on to serve all sectors of society.
Fortify and diversify the e orts of our councils and programs in the context of a cohesive Center.
Champion initiatives that leverage Yale’s intellectual assets and convening power.
MACMILLAN
These stories were selected by the regional councils and global programs as highlights from the broad scope of their work in 2024 .
NORTH AMERICA
Canada and the USA
Smoke from Canada page 22
New Haven, CT, USA
“The Education Wars” page 24
Global Table program kicks o page 19
“Groundwater Earth” page 25
Legacies of American Slavery page 28
Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era (MADE) page 15
Recent grads recognized for leadership page 29
Yale and Slavery page 12
Climate science and policy diplomacy page 16
CENTRAL AMERICA
Guatemala
Indigenous women's wisdom page 13
SOUTH AMERICA
Argentina and Chile
“Darwin en Patagonia” opera page 10
Brazil
Activists fight to save Amazon page 18
Ecuador
Indigenous water rights defended page 23
AFRICA
Ethiopia
Church forest conservation page 18
Ghana & Kenya
Competing visions for wildlands page 21
Women's digital inclusion page 13
Mozambique
Africa-China Symposium page 10
Sierra Leone
Rural vaccine program expands page 27
IN THE WORLD
EUROPE
Pan-European Conference page 16
Baltics
Baltic unity conference page 16
Central Asia
Launch of Central Asia Initiative page 18
Greece
Identity & Conflict Lab page 15
MIDDLE EAST
Jordan
Refugee women’s empowerment page 26
Kurdistan
“The Long Twentieth Century of Kurds and Kurdistan” page 24
SOUTH ASIA
Bangladesh
EAST ASIA
China
The New Qingming Scroll page 13
Korea
Buddhist Studies expands page 10
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Myanmar (Burma) scholars’ mentoring conference page 28
Adaptation solutions in coastal Bangladesh page 22
“The Monsoon Revolution” page 17
India
Strengthening women's financial autonomy page 28
Carbon markets and climate justice page 23
Pakistan
Climate justice conference page 22
events convened, including conferences, seminars, film screenings, and cultural performances
43 students in Class of 2024
graduate students
undergraduates
,239 living alumni
countries where alumni live
faculty members who received MacMillan support
faculty members a liated with the MacMillan Center
MacMillan support for students, faculty, and visiting scholars
As a center in the O ce of the Provost, MacMillan is responsible for stewardship of an array of funds that support international scholarly activities. The amounts here reflect the funds that the Center manages on behalf of the University as well as its councils and programs.
$ 1,703 ,932
total support for students*
STUDENTS
$ 9,225 ,816 support for students, faculty, and visiting scholars
SCHOLARLYACTIVITIES
$1,081,902
funding for faculty scholarly activities and conferences on-campus
$ 2,864 ,826
total support for faculty
$1,782 ,924 funding for faculty research
$4 ,657,058
total support for visiting scholars, including postdocs, professors, lectors, and lecturers
*not inclusive of independent council funding
awards
MacMillan Center Book Prizes
Established in 2004 to recognize the distinguished legacy of two former directors of the MacMillan Center, the prizes are awarded for books on international topics written by current members of the Yale faculty. Award recipients receive a research appointment at the MacMillan Center and a $5,000 research award.
, George M. Bodman
Professor of English, received the 2024 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize for Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s–1960s (Boydell and Brewer). Her work focuses on the cultural histories of printing and reading in West Africa, with special attention to African-owned newspapers in the colonial period and local print cultures in the twentieth century. The prize committee described Newell’s book as “fascinating, de ly written, and deeply researched” as it examines “how the English language figure[d] in the public spheres of Britain’s West African colonies in the early twentieth century.”
, assistant professor of political science, received the 2024 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize for State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya (Cambridge University Press). His research focuses on law and state-building in the former Soviet Union. The prize committee commended the book’s “contemporary relevance in relation to gender issues, the impact of war on the state and society at large, and the integration of religion, tradition, government, and international law.”
AWARDS
Endowed Lectures
MacMillan stewards several endowed funds aimed at bringing thought-leaders to campus, including the Stimson Lecture Series.
Created in 1998 to honor Henry L. Stimson, an attorney and statesman whose government service culminated with his tenure as secretary of war during World War II, the series brings to campus distinguished diplomats and foreign policy experts who have published books with Yale University Press.
Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of international a airs at Georgetown University, delivered the 2024 Stimson Lectures: “Bringing Order to Anarchy” and “Governing the World to Come.”
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Student Prizes
Spencer Lee-Lenfield received the MacMillan Center’s William J. Foltz Journalism Award for his article about Nadine Hwang, a queer Chinese lawyer, which appeared in The New York Review of Books on January 4, 2023. The award is given annually to a Yale University student whose published article demonstrates excellence, creativity, and journalistic merit in reporting a news event, feature, or human-interest story and helps the audience gain greater knowledge and understanding of international issues or regional issues outside of the US. Lee-Lenfield earned their Ph.D. from Yale in 2024, and has since joined Harvard University’s Department of Comparative Literature.
Jaehyun Kim, Lucas Miner, and Isabelle Qian
Jaehyun Kim ’24, Lucas Miner ’24, and Isabelle Qian ’24 were the winners of the 2024 Williams Prize in East Asian Studies. Established in 1961, the Williams Prize is awarded, by faculty nomination only, to a Yale College senior in any department for an outstanding paper completed during the current academic year on a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean subject.
Faculty Accolades
Sunil Amrith, the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History and chair of the , received the 2024 Fukuoka Academic Prize for his body of scholarship and research that explores themes of history, ecology, and environmentalism from both local and global perspectives. For more on Amrith and his work, see page 23
senior lector Maria Kaliambou was awarded the 2024 Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) Best Edited Book Prize in Modern Greek Studies for her book, The Greek Revolution and the Greek Diaspora in the United States. This prize acknowledged Kaliambou’s significant contribution to Greek diaspora studies through its focus on the Greek War of Independence and the lasting impact of the conflict on international relations, ethnic identity-building, and political awareness, including among Greeks in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Travis Zadeh, professor of religious studies, and chair of the , was awarded a 2024 fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Zadeh writes and teaches on the connected histories of science, magic, and religion, as well as on law, literature, and philosophy. His latest book, Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book that Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos, examines wonder, nature, and empire by tracking the many a erlives of an Arabic compendium of natural history written in the wake of the Mongol conquests. For more on Zadeh, see page 11.
Jonny Steinberg, senior lecturer in political science and member of the , won the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography for Winnie & Nelson: A Portrait of a Marriage Steinberg’s work is a poignant examination of South African history through the lens of the marriage between Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Through quotes from recently released transcripts of recorded conversations between the Mandelas during Nelson’s time in prison, Winnie & Nelson illuminates the e ects of racial inequality and incarceration on the human condition in apartheid-era South Africa.
Visiting Faculty and Scholars
Representing a diverse set of disciplines, 94 scholars from 36 countries visited the MacMillan Center in the 2023-24 academic year.
Visiting faculty—whether teaching or conducting research—and scholars including fellows, postdocs, and postgrads play a vital role in enriching the intellectual environment for our students, faculty members, and other scholars. Their contributions come in many forms including through teaching, mentorship, and participation in colloquia and seminars. The MacMillan Center also provides a range of opportunities for exchanges and collaborations among visiting scholars and Yale faculty, helping to facilitate connections that may not otherwise have been forged.
Fox International Fellowship
Established by Joseph Carrère Fox ’38, the Fox International Fellowship exists to enhance mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and other countries through a yearlong graduate student exchange program. Each year, Yale hosts a cohort of approximately twenty Fox Fellows (above) from partner institutions on its campus and sends twelve to eighteen Yale students on exchange to its twenty-one world-renowned academic partners in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Now celebrating its thirty-fi h year, the Fox Fellowship program has 770 alumni in its network.
“Fox alumni span the globe, linking research and practice in universities, firms, government o ces, and non-governmental agencies. They are a powerful force working for a better global future.”
Emily Erikson (above, middle) Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, the School of Management; Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship
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Connect. Research. Lead.
OUR THEMES
These are dynamic concepts that reflect our current teaching and research and foster collaborations.
Humanity Engaging global voices to better understand ourselves and others.
Dignity Scholarship and intervention to promote respect and human rights.
Good Governance Exploring and advancing e ective and inclusive leadership.
Environment Balancing the needs of people and the planet.
Climate Change Exploring the complexities of global warming through international and regional lenses.
Societal Resilience Building resilience in individuals and societies.
Leadership & Service Translating scholarship into insights and solutions.
Humanity Engaging global voices to
better understand ourselves and others.
The Study of Buddhism Expands at Yale
Most Venerable Jinwoo touring the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
On October 10, Yale President Maurie McInnis met with to honor a $1M gift from the order to support the Buddhist Studies Program at the MacMillan Center. The head of the Jogye Order, Most Venerable Jinwoo is the highest-ranking religious leader of the largest Buddhist group in Korea.
Led by the at the MacMillan Center, the series of events involved additional leaders of the Jogye Buddhist Order, Dongguk University leaders, sta members, and media representatives from Korea.
Nearly 200 people attended Most Venerable Jinwoo’s public lecture. The delegation also met with graduate students, toured the Beinecke Library’s Buddhist treasures, and gave a lantern-making workshop.
In February, poet, calligrapher, and artist Dagil Kim Kyeongho, who has devoted himself to the continuation of the rare art and technique of Sagyo ˘ ng— Buddhistsutratranscription— gave a lecture and demonstration of his art at Yale.
“Yale Africa-China Symposium: Cultural Dimensions”
In March, the convened a two-day symposium at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique. While past Yale Africa-China Conferences have focused on the African continent’s economic and political ties with China, this year's symposium centered on the cultural dimensions of Sino-African relations, which allowed for new orientations and novel paradigms, and foregrounded urgent voices at the margin of the Africa-China discourse.
“Darwin en Patagonia: Fragments of an Evolving Opera” Premieres at Yale
The hosted the American premiere of Darwin en Patagonia: Fragments of an Evolving Opera in December. The hour-long Spanish-language opera examines Darwin’s interactions with the people and landscape of Patagonia while on his legendary five-year journey, revealing the historical implications of his ideas about evolution.
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Visiting Scholar Spotlight: Championing Women’s Rights through Writing
Afghan writer, human rights activist, and educator
Homeira Qaderi is a lecturer and associate research scholar at the through spring 2025. She has written seven books, including a collection of short stories, the novel Noqra: The Daughter of Kabul River (2009), and the memoir Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother’s Letter to Her Son (2020), which was named a Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year. Before leaving Afghanistan, Qaderi taught Persian literature at Gharjistan University in Kabul and worked as a senior advisor to the minister of education. She has received multiple honors for her advocacy for Afghanistan’s women and children, including the Malalai Medal for Exceptional Bravery presented by the president of Afghanistan in 2018
While at Yale, Qaderi is writing a novel, inspired largely by her own experiences, with the working title Tell Me Everything, about a girl from Kabul who is kidnapped during the Soviet-Afghan war and taken to St. Petersburg. A er the fall of the Soviet Union, she returns to her hometown, which is under Taliban rule. The novel follows the protagonist’s experiences through the American invasion and her eventual immigration to Smyrna, Delaware.
CHAIR HIGHLIGHT
“The further you go back in time, the harder it is to separate out religion, magic, and science from each other.”
Travis Zadeh
Professor of Religious Studies; Chair, Council on Middle East Studies; Director of the Program in Iranian Studies
As chair of the Council on Middle East Studies, Travis Zadeh (above, right) is dedicated to enhancing understanding of Middle Eastern cultures, languages, and histories while promoting collaboration among faculty and students. His research focuses on Islamic intellectual and cultural history, particularly Persian and Arabic manuscripts, spanning from medieval Islamic thought to contemporary trends. “My work is rooted in the medieval past,” he notes, “but I’m also deeply mindful of how it helps us understand the present.”
Zadeh’s recent project, which earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, explored sacred geography and pilgrimage practices in early Islam, emphasizing ideas of place. At Yale, he teaches a course on the history of the occult sciences, including astrology, alchemy, and magic from antiquity to the present. “The further you go back in time, the harder it is to separate out religion, magic, and science from each other,” he argues.
His broader interest in wonder and enchantment informs his current book project, which investigates the ways that medieval scholars conceptualized emotions and cognitive sensibilities. As chair, Zadeh aims to facilitate scholarly engagement with the Middle East’s complex history and its Cold War roots, envisioning collaborations with South Asian, African, and Central Asian studies to enrich the field’s future. He explains, “I see my role as helping to facilitate the aspirations of our students and faculty.”
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As a prelude to the book's release, panelists discussed “Reckoning with Slavery in US Intellectual History and in the University” in December 2023.
Yale Vows New Actions with Release of Yale and Slavery Book
In February 2024, Yale announced new commitments and in response to the findings of the scholarly, peer-reviewed book Yale and Slavery: A History, authored by David W. Blight—Sterling Professor of History and director of the —with the Yale and Slavery Research Project. Yale’s commitments include increasing educational access and excellence in teaching and research; advancing inclusive economic growth in New Haven; acknowledging our past; and creating widespread access to historical findings.
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Dignity Scholarship and intervention to promote respect and human rights.
Indigenous Wisdom Shared at Yale
As part of its spring 2024 colloquia series “Indigenous Epistemologies from Latin America,” the welcomed Manuela Tahay, a Maya K’iche’ scholar and language instructor from Nahualá, Guatemala, to lead events for Yale and the wider New Haven community including “History Flies: How to Make a Kite to Teach Maya Culture ”
February’s “Women and the Digital Economy” conference co-organizers.
Including Women in the Digital Economy
How can policy enable women to fully reap the benefits of digital technology? Building on a set of events in 2024 and ongoing research in India and Kenya, is expanding its work on digital inclusion in several other countries, leveraging new funding from the Gates Foundation to advance a new generation of research in collaboration with government and private sector counterparts.
Chinese Artist Dai Xiang Draws on Past to Engage Contemporary Social Problems
In February, the hosted Chinese artist and photographer Dai Xiang. During the visit, he presented his New Qingming Scroll (2014), a modern recreation of the Song-dynasty scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival (Qingming Shanghe Tu), which was painted around 1000 c e. Dai believes the original scroll reflects moments of crisis under prosperity, and he used his interpretation to portray issues such as food contamination, cyber security threats, rising housing prices, and environmental degradation.
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“For me, research isn’t just about going to a place, collecting data, and publishing a book; it’s about building lasting, reciprocal relationships with the communities you study.”
Erik Harms
Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asia Studies; Chair, Council on Southeast Asia Studies
As chair of the Council on Southeast Asia Studies, Erik Harms (above, left) works to elevate the academic prominence of Southeast Asian studies at Yale and promote global understanding of the region. His research focuses on urbanization and social change in Ho Chi Minh City, exploring tensions between tradition and modernity, particularly for marginalized individuals.
“For me, research isn’t just about going to a place, collecting data, and publishing a book; it’s about building lasting, reciprocal relationships with the communities you study,” Harms explains, adding, “I’m committed to creating spaces at Yale where Southeast Asia scholars and students can thrive, not just in the classroom but through real-world engagement.”
This fall, Harms opened a search for a Tagalog language lector in response to demonstrated student interest and advocacy from Kasama, Yale’s Filipinx organization. Harms also organizes events, secures funding for student research, and facilitates visits from Southeast Asia scholars. “When I think about the legacy I want to leave here, it’s not just about contributing to the study of Southeast Asia,” Harms says. “It’s about making Yale a place where scholars from the region feel welcome and can engage in meaningful, transformative research.”
Visiting Scholar Spotlight: How the History of Slavery in the North Escaped Public Collective Memory
In fall 2024, Patricia Ann Lott was visiting associate professor at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC). She spent her time at the GLC revising her book, titled A er Ruin: The Cra ing of Public Collective Memory of Racial Slavery in the North, participating in conferences, lecturing, and conducting archival research at the Beinecke.
Lott, who is an associate professor of English, African American and Africana Studies, and American Studies at Ursinus College, focuses her research on the struggle to discard or to preserve the collective memory of racial slavery among the region’s publics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Lott argues that the US North’s governing regimes exerted an obliterative force over public memory. She conceptualizes this force through the term “wastecra ”—the art and science of laying to waste, especially for self-serving and wicked purposes—and asserts that the power of wastecra collided with the possibility of ending bondage with finality and engraving its memory in commemorative cultures.
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Overcoming Native-Immigrant Conflict in Frontline States
Nicholas Sambanis, Kalsi Family Professor of Political Science (above, le ), brought his to the MacMillan Center in June. A research group that studies both violent and non-violent inter-group conflict, the Identity & Conflict Lab (icL) convened a workshop in Crete, Greece, to explore concepts, ideas, and policy challenges generated by immigration in frontline states, especially in Europe.
The conference aimed to arrive at a synthesis of the latest research on challenges to multiculturalism in frontline states, with a view to informing the scholarly literature while also engaging with policymakers and stakeholders whose work is focused on accommodating migrant and native populations in societies “in flux ” The conference led to partnerships with government agencies working to assist with the social integration of refugees and asylum seekers in Greece and to a new policy-focused research agenda for the icL.
Investigating Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era
2024 was the inaugural year of the Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era (MADE) Fellowship for current undergraduate and graduate students at Yale who are studying technology’s increasing and diversified way of interacting with and contributing to mass atrocities. Fellows researched accountability, corporate responsibility, and genocide studies. They also held multiple private events with guest speakers and took part in larger events, including the “Disentangling Disinformation” series, facilitated by Bonnie Weir (above, left), senior lecturer and assistant dean for undergraduate education at the Jackson School of Global Affairs and former co-director of the Program on Peace and Development, and David Simon (above, right), assistant dean for graduate education, senior lecturer in global affairs, and director of the Genocide Studies Program at the Yale MacMillan Center, seen in conversation with Federica Du Pasquier, a humanitarian diplomat, lawyer, strategist, and 2023 Yale World Fellow.
Good Governance Exploring and advancing e ective and inclusive leadership.
“Science-Policy Diplomacy:” Experts Tackle Environmental Governance during Climate Week
Carlos Alvarado Quesada, former president of Costa Rica; Maria Ivanova M.E.M. ’ 99, M.A. ’99, Ph.D. ’06, director of the Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban A airs; and Philip Osano, director of the Africa Centre of the Stockholm Environment Institute (below, le to right), discussed “Flipping the Model: Leveraging Academic Perspectives to Reinvent Multilateralism” during Yale@Climate Week 2024 in September.
Baltic Studies Program Expands Scope, Hosts Major Conference on Unity and Giving Aid
As part of the recent expansion of the , Yale hosted the 2024 conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) in June. More than 300 scholars and leaders convened to discuss the Baltic region’s history, culture, and pressing contemporary issues, including Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Rector Mykola Trofymenko of Mariupol State University in Ukraine (second from right) spoke during the university rectors’ plenary on “Education and the Baltic Countries in the Twenty-First Century," moderated by Edyta Bojanowska (left), Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and former Chair of the European Studies Council.
Celebrating Europe Day with Interdisciplinary Conference
In May, the held its fifth annual European and Eurasian Studies Graduate Student Conference, in which participants discussed topics including international security, authoritarianism, and relational coexistence in Europe, Eurasia, and Russia. A screening of Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s new film Green Border, which depicts the plight of Syrian migrants trapped at the Belarus–European Union border, prompted conference participants to reflect on the broader European project, the hybrid warfare tactics being used against it, and the human costs.
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“The Monsoon Revolution in Bangladesh”
In response to the July Revolution, a series of student-led, pro-democracy protests in Bangladesh, the and the convened a daylong conference in September to discuss the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement. Featuring a robust slate of international speakers, sessions included “The Origins of the Revolution: How a Group of Committed Students Toppled an Autocrat,” “Navigating Economic Challenges Post-Revolution,” “Reforming Institutions: A New Framework for Bangladesh’s Future,” and “Cross-Border Relations and Water Diplomacy.”
Visiting Scholar Spotlight: “Move Fast and Break People”
Dan Wang’s upcoming book, tentatively titled Move Fast and Break People: China's Quest to Engineer the Future and the Lessons for America, argues that China operates as an “engineering state” that rapidly constructs impressive infrastructure as in the case of the country’s highway system o en overlooking the human costs involved. In stark contrast, he describes the United States as a “lawyerly society,” where policies and legal frameworks can stifle progress and innovation. Wang, a lecturer in and a fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, draws on rich personal experiences from his time in China between 2017 and 2023. During that period, he witnessed the country’s exhilarating technological advancements alongside its increasing political repression. These firsthand observations provide a vivid context that enhances his analysis, o ering readers a nuanced understanding of the complexities and consequences of these two contrasting approaches to progress.
CHAIR HIGHLIGHT
“Teaching is integral to what we do as academics. It’s in those everyday conversations with students where real intellectual breakthroughs happen.”
Fatima Naqvi
Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and of Film and Media Studies; Interim Chair, European Studies Council
For Fatima Naqvi (above, right), intellectual inquiry is a way of navigating complex relationships between culture, space, and democracy. “I’ve always been fascinated by how space—whether urban, rural, or institutional—functions as more than a backdrop. It actively shapes the lives of individuals and societies,” she says. Studying these interactions, she explains, helps us understand how history and ideology influence our lives.
Through her work, Naqvi examines how architecture is tied to identity, memory, and societal transformation. “Rebuilding after World War II was not just a physical process in Germany; it represented a profound ideological and cultural shift,” she explains. Naqvi’s current research explores hospitals as spaces of healing and skepticism, noting that early twentieth-century views of hospitals marked a significant societal transformation.
At Yale, Naqvi teaches courses spanning German literature, European cinema, and cultural theory. “Teaching is integral to what we do as academics,” she observes. “It’s in those everyday conversations with students where real intellectual breakthroughs happen.” As interim chair of the European Studies Council, Naqvi aims to enhance discussions about democracy and identity, complementing the recent focus on Eastern Europe with renewed attention to critical developments in Western Europe.
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Environment Balancing
the needs of people and the planet.
“Geopolitics
and the Environment in Central Asia”
During Yale @Climate Week in September, the program at the European Studies Council announced the launch of its Central Asia Initiative at the start of a panel discussion on Soviet-era environmental disasters in the region and their current impacts on human health, climate migration, nuclear power policies, and environmental restoration.
“Nature’s Sanctuary”
A tree planting, a performance of church cantors, a public talk, and a photo exhibit hosted by the in April told a story of ecological crisis and of hope. The images document how a local conservation organization in Ethiopia partners with communities to preserve some of the last remaining ancient church forests of the Ethiopian highlands. Through his work, photographer Kieran Dodds seeks to “reveal how spiritual ideas and long-held conservation practices have the power to nurture sustainable environments in an era of ecological crisis.”
Indigenous Brazilian Activists Challenge Academia to Act
In May, the , Yale School of the Environment, and Yale School of Public Health held a conference in honor of slain environmental activists Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira called “Climate Change Crisis and Environmental Justice in the Amazon: Voices from Indigenous Peoples and Activists,” during which activists and their allies implored scholars to help them save the rainforest before it is too late.
“Araribóia has the forest that may be able to cure human beings,” environmental activist Olimpio Guajajara (at left) said through a translator. “This is why we are fighting for that territory. That territory is not only a part of myself or my people; it is also part of all humankind. Because without the forest, we will not be able to exist.” Guajajara, a member of the Guajajara people, leads KA’AIWAR, a group of guardians of the rainforest in Araribóia, on the eastern edge of the Amazon rainforest. Guajajara and his fellow volunteers defend their land from illegal incursions by loggers at its seventy-two points of entry, sometimes at the cost of their lives.
At the time of his murder in 2022, Phillips was writing a book titled How to Save the Amazon. That manuscript is now being completed by colleagues and will be published in 2025
This conference was also co-sponsored by the Yale MacMillan Center’s Program on Peace and Development, the Yale Center for Environmental Justice, and the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund at Yale Law School.
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Indigenous activists spoke at Yale about the crisis in the Amazon on May 10.
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“It’s important for us to understand our food systems… and turn them into something that is dynamic.”
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Sustaining “New African Cuisine”
Selassie Atadika, chef-founder of a nomadic dining enterprise in Ghana called Midunu, came to campus in October as the inaugural Yale Global Table fellow.
During her weeklong residency, she o ered a public lecture, joined classes, and had meals with students. She expressed urgency in protecting the environment to preserve Africa’s culinary heritage—which is inherently communal, plant-forward, no-waste, and prioritizes bold flavors and foraged foods. Her visit concluded with a training session for Yale Hospitality employees, as Chef Atadika’s menu was later featured in Yale Commons in December.
Yale Global Table is a new collaboration among the Yale MacMillan Center, Yale Schwarzman Center, and Yale Hospitality that invites culinary thought-leaders to illuminate the connections linking sustainability, health, culture, and community.
“Our students should be able to learn not just from us, but from the valuable insights of our colleagues who teach in African universities.”
For Cajetan Iheka (above, right), whether through teaching or research, the ultimate goal is to put Africa at the center of the conversation. Iheka, who is chair of the Council of African Studies, teaches Anglophone African literature to bring his students “from the place of certainty to the possibilities of epistemological uncertainty,” while also helping them make connections in the human experience across di erent literary traditions.
Outside the classroom, his research focuses on post-colonial literature, ecocriticism, and ecomedia, a subfield of media studies that examines cultural representations of the environment in media and the environmental impact of media forms. Iheka’s most recent book, African Ecomedia, examined the ecological footprint of media in Africa and environmental issues in visual culture, asking the question: “How can we understand the environment from looking at the cultural practices of people who live in communities in Africa?”
Currently, Iheka is working on a comparative study of African and Caribbean literature. At the Council, Iheka fosters community and has prioritized bringing more African scholars to Yale. “Our students should be able to learn not just from us,” he explains, “but from the valuable insights of our colleagues who teach in African universities.”
Visiting Scholar Spotlight: Promoting Dialogue for More Inclusive Conservation Practices in Vietnam
visiting fellow Hang Thi Thu Truong’s research examines the significant di erences between local cultural knowledge and traditions and national government views on natural protected areas (NPAs) in Vietnam, particularly focusing on the Raglai indigenous people who reside in and around Nui Chua National Park. Conducted from 2020 to 2022, Truong’s ethnographic study, “Forest to Live / Forest to Manage: Knowledges, Narratives, and Actions in Nui Chua National Park, Vietnam,” revealed that the Raglai’s understanding of the forest is deeply connected to their cultural and practical knowledge, including spiritual elements. In contrast, NPA managers o en see the forest mainly as a technical and economic resource, guided by scientific principles that overlook local realities. This mismatch poses challenges for managing the park in a way that supports local communities, while also protecting the environment. Although the Raglai have valuable insights into park management, their views o en misalign with those of the managers, who may not recognize indigenous knowledge. The study highlights the need for dialogue to reconcile these di ering perspectives. Truong suggests using an anthropological approach to encourage meaningful exchanges, aiming to bridge the gap between local understanding and expert management, which could lead to more sustainable and inclusive conservation practices. Truong is the dean of the faculty of anthropology at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City.
Cajetan Iheka
Professor of English; Chair, Council on African Studies; Director, Whitney Humanities Center; Head of the Yale Africa Initiative
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Reconciling Competing Visions for Africa’s Wildlands
Joshua Amponsah, a second-year master’s student in , received the Lindsay Fellowship for Research in Africa to examine how social justice and ecological integrity can be harmonized within Africa’s conservation efforts, with a focus on land rights and the conflicts that arise from conservation practices. His 2024 study compared two cases: the Kalakpa Resource Reserve in Ghana and the Embobut Forest in Kenya.
“This study shows that to genuinely prioritize indigenous communities in conservation e orts, governments must first formally recognize these communities and engage in meaningful, community-driven negotiations,” Amponsah said. “This study is the beginning of a journey that will lead to the establishment of policies that do not just protect the nonhuman environment, but also acknowledge the people who have protected it for centuries. It is a journey toward environmental justice, where conservation rules are balanced, and Africa’s lands are preserved for future generations, not just as reserves, but as homes ”
Joshua Amponsah stands in the remains of a burned house in the Embobut Forest, Kenya, one of many destroyed during the ongoing conflicts between the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and the Sengwer and Marakwet communities residing in the forest.
Climate Change Exploring the complexities of global warming through international and regional lenses.
Perceptions of Climate Change in Canada and the US
In response to the record-breaking fires of summer 2023, the hosted the symposium “Smoke from Canada: Climate Change, Forest Fires, and the Future” in February to discuss the impacts of the fires on all of Canada’s provinces and how they compromised air quality throughout North America.
Developing Evidence-Based Scalable Adaptation Solutions in Coastal Bangladesh
With rising sea levels, tidal flooding, and storm surges in coastal Bangladesh linked to climate change, fresh water is increasingly contaminated by salt water. As a result, salinity levels are three to five times above safe drinking water level, leading to adverse health outcomes such as hypertension and pre-eclampsia for 20 million people in coastal areas. Globally, this could a ect people in over 100 countries living in similar low-lying delta regions. Already 1 1 billion people live in areas with saline groundwater. has partnered with MIT and BRAC—one of the world's largest NGOs, based in Bangladesh—to develop a set of multi-faceted adaptation programs, which they described to the public during Yale@Climate Week NYC.
“Water
and Climate Justice in South Asia”
In June, the partnered with Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan to host a conference that explored multiple dimensions of climate justice and injustice in relation to water. Conversations focused particular attention on climate risk and water’s social impacts, and on articulating potential solutions to South Asia’s layered water crises.
New York City engulfed in smoke from Canada on June 7, 2023
A. Mushfiq Mobarak, Jerome Kaso ’54 Professor of Management and Economics at Yale and faculty director of Y-RISE (left), described climate adaptation solutions during Climate Week.
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CHAIR HIGHLIGHT
Carbon Markets and Climate Justice for the Global South
is advancing global research on markets-based mechanisms to address climate change. Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) and carbon markets promise to preserve forests, reduce air pollution, and direct funds to low-income communities, but they o en fall short in practice. Faculty director Rohini Pande lays out a framework to redesign these tools in a series of articles published in Science magazine.
In spring 2024, the Inclusion Economics India Centre signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the state government of Meghalaya, India to put these ideas into practice through an innovative policy evaluation.
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
To mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day on October 14, the invited Yaku Pérez Guartambel, a Kichwa Kañari leader, lawyer, and author from Ecuador, to speak on “Cosmovisions of the Pacha and Water.” As a water defender, he has led historic judicial processes in response to climate change and in defense of the rights of nature in the Andes and the Amazon.
“Approaching these complex problems from di erent disciplinary perspectives is the only way we can gain insight and make progress.”
Sunil Amrith
Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History; Chair, South Asian Studies Council
Sunil Amrith (second from left, pictured with the South Asian Studies Council sta ), explores environmental history and migration in South Asia and Southeast Asia, linking these themes to colonial and post-colonial developments. He investigates how colonial conquest led to environmental devastation and human exploitation, as seen in the mass deforestation of the Malaysian peninsula for rubber plantations in the 1800s, for example.
In his latest book, The Burning Earth: A History, Amrith examines global environmental history, addressing issues from Portuguese silver mining in Peru to oil extraction in Central Asia. “The book asks the question of how we got to this place of climate crisis and what we might learn from particularly emphasizing the experiences of the Global South in telling that story,” Amrith says. He emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to solutions. “Approaching these complex problems from di erent disciplinary perspectives is the only way we can gain insight and make progress.”
Now in his fifth year as chair, he is most proud of his students. Amrith connects students with resources and mentors while prioritizing cultural elements in Council events to build community. Looking ahead, he hopes to introduce more South Asian languages into the curriculum and to foster more partnerships across campus.
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Societal Resilience Building resilience in individuals and societies.
The Education Wars
In October, the held a public event at New Haven’s Wilbur Cross High School discussing Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider’s book, The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual. Writing in response to the culture war and book-banning e orts engulfing America’s schools, the authors suggest how “Americans who love their public schools can begin to fight back.”
Kurds and Kurdistan in Interdisciplinary Conversation
Marking the centenary of the post-World War I Treaty of Lausanne, the convened “The Long Twentieth Century of Kurds and Kurdistan” conference in spring 2024. The two-day program focused on placing Kurds and Kurdistan at the center of an interdisciplinary examination of the post-imperial world order in the Middle East, and on moving beyond a narrow focus on political history to create space for various social, economic, cultural, and ecological perspectives.
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Panelists (from left) Aslı Ü. Bâli, Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of Law at Yale; Nilay Özok-Gündoğan; Jonathan Wyrtzen, professor of sociology and history at Yale; Mashuq Kurt; and Metin Serbest.
Groundwater Earth member
Anthony Acciavatti, the Diana Balmori Assistant Professor of Architecture, presented “Groundwater Earth: The World Before and After the Tubewell” at Yale School of Architecture in spring 2024. As the first major exhibition on the role of tubewells in drastically reconfiguring cities and agriculture, the show traced, from Phoenix to New Delhi, humanity’s
“preposterous, practical, and perilous experiments with groundwater.”
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“Through literature, we can explore the profound questions of identity, power, and resistance.”
Kenneth David Jackson
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese; Director of Undergraduate Studies for Portuguese; Chair of the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies
Kenneth David Jackson’s research bridges literature, history, and cultural studies, fostering new dialogues about colonialism, post-colonial identity, and transatlantic exchanges. His recent work highlights the often-overlooked role of Portuguese writers in shaping colonial discourse in Brazil and Africa, aiming to reassess the legacies of empire and resistance in the Latin American and Iberian context.
He has extensively explored the Brazilian modernist movement, emphasizing how it redefined the country’s cultural landscape in the twentieth century. “Brazilian Modernism was not just a literary movement,” Jackson argues. “It was a cultural revolution that reimagined Brazil’s national identity, blending indigenous, African, and European influences into something uniquely Brazilian.” His work also investigates the intersections between literature and music, particularly during Brazil’s military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985 , when music served as a form of cultural and political resistance.
As chair of the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, Jackson aims to enhance the visibility of Portuguese voices and perspectives. Teaching remains one of his greatest passions. He is deeply committed to mentoring students and guiding them through the complexities of Lusophone literature and culture. “Through literature, we can explore the profound questions of identity, power, and resistance,” Jackson says. “I want my students to leave my classes with a deeper understanding of how texts reflect and shape the world around them.”
Volunteering Enhances Life Satis
faction
among Syrian Refugee and Jordanian Women Living in Poverty
Catherine Panter-Brick, the Bruce A. and Davi-Ellen Chabner Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs and faculty director of the , co-authored several papers in 2024 on women’s volunteer programs and empowerment.
“Gaining a more locally accurate understanding of the nature and impact of volunteering programs has important, practical applications for science diplomacy and public policy,” said Panter-Brick. “Our study gives a sense of how to design culturally relevant, locally grounded, communitybased programs, as well as how to evaluate them in a locally informed manner.”
Visiting Scholar Spotlight:
“Can Informed Buyers Improve Goods Quality? Experimental Evidence from Crop Seeds in Kenya”
postdoctoral associate Eric Hsu’s research in Kenya examined low-quality maize seed distributors in local markets and whether training farmers to recognize quality seeds can change market dynamics. Many local seed distributors o er seeds that are not quality-verified, and this, combined with the lack of education around the existence of these seeds in the market, as well as weak enforcement of government regulations has contributed to lower maize production. Hsu’s team conducted a randomized intervention to assess the prevalence of low-quality seeds and implemented an information campaign to help farmers identify good, hybrid maize seeds. The results showed that when farmers gained knowledge, they purchased more seeds and achieved higher maize yields, particularly benefiting those in areas with poor seed quality. While informed buyers influenced market changes, some sellers exited without adjusting prices or improving seed quality, as they felt pressure from farmers switching to better products. The study underscores the importance of consumer information for market e ciency and increased agricultural production.
A volunteer reads aloud to children in Amman, Jordan, through the “We Love Reading” literacy program.
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Leadership & Service Translating scholarship into insights and solutions.
Scaling Impact in Vaccines and Health Products in Remote Areas
Expanding vaccine and health products delivery into remote, rural parts of Sierra Leone is the goal of an effort co-led by professor A. Mushfiq Mobarak in partnership with Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation. With this work, the team is researching whether bundling multiple vaccines and health products improves impact, cost-effectiveness, and scalability by reducing the cost of delivery per person treated.
In this image, Nurse Fatmata (left) and Nurse Ramatu conduct a mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic in the rural community of Rofunta, Sierra Leone, in December 2022. The research outcomes of the COVID-19 vaccination initiative, published in Nature, are the basis for Y-RISE’s new study.
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Promoting Collegiate Teaching and Research on Slavery
In September, the celebrated the culmination of its four-year partnership with the Council of Independent Colleges with a conference on “Legacies of American Slavery: Reckoning with the Past,” at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. This collaboration has encouraged a network of small independent colleges throughout the country in developing curricula, creating student research opportunities, and supporting community-based projects focused on understanding and addressing particular legacies of slavery The conference provided a platform for the partner institutions to share their work with each other and plan for the future.
Strengthening Women’s Financial Autonomy
Can increasing control over earnings encourage women to work outside the home, and thereby support more equitable norms around gender roles? is now scaling up a version of its research-backed intervention, featured in the Financial Times as one of the most impactful academic studies on policy globally, that promoted labor force participation among rural Indian women by directing workfare payments into their own bank accounts and, consequently, shi ed community norms around women’s work. Drawing on insights from over a decade of gender-focused research, Inclusion Economics is advancing women’s economic opportunities in India through a renewed long-term partnership with the Ministry of Rural Development.
Gathering of International Centers
In October, MacMillan hosted faculty and sta leaders from the international centers of six peer Ivy+ institutions for two days of sharing best practices and considering pathways to collaboration. Yale will continue to lead this important set of discussions around capacity-building to support international scholarly endeavors.
Supporting a New Generation of Scholars
An interdisciplinary cohort of junior scholars from Myanmar (Burma) joined a hybrid-format mentoring workshop hosted by the
in April. Featuring an array of panels, mentoring sessions, and networking opportunities with Yale faculty and journal editors, the week of activities emphasized team-building, collaborative research, and strengthening professional relationships among aspiring scholars and faculty mentors. The papers showcased provided insights into the complexities of Myanmar while demonstrating the rising talents and innovative scholarship emerging from this new generation of researchers.
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A visiting scholar from Myanmar walks down Hillhouse Avenue toward Luce Hall.
Visiting Scholar Spotlight:
Advocating for Women’s and Transgender Rights
Ligia Fabris Campos was a visiting professor and senior lecturer at the
for the spring and fall semesters of 2024, respectively. She is an assistant professor at the Law School of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV Direito Rio) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As a co-founder of the Rio de Janeiro State Forum for More Women in Politics, Fabris actively collaborates with a network of scholars, activists, lawyers, and politicians to mobilize and inform women about their political rights and strategize ways to increase women’s participation in politics. In 2018, she litigated before the Brazilian Supreme Court in a decision that guaranteed women candidates’ right to campaign funding.
While at Yale during the spring semester, she taught “Feminist Theory and Latin American Contributions,” aiming to de-westernize feminist thought and emphasize Latin American perspectives and movements. Fabris also served as the keynote speaker at the Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network conference, where she addressed “Gender-Based Political Violence: Breaking the Silence.” She also conducted research on political rights in Brazil, as well as transgender medical history and its implications for rights recognition in both Brazil and Germany.
MacMillan Graduating Seniors
Recognized for Leadership
Two recent Yale College graduates were selected for the prestigious James C. Gaither Junior Fellows program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Faisal Al-Saud ’24 and Daevan Mangalmurti ’24. Al-Saud (le ) majored in political science and modern and is interested in the future of international law and institutions in an era of increasing multipolarity. Mangalmurti majored in Ethics, Politics and Economics and , and his research interests are in the political economy of climate change in developing countries.
Remembering James C. Scott
James C. Scott ’67 Ph.D., a revered scholar whose pathbreaking work crossed intellectual boundaries, died on July 19, 2024 , at his home in Durham, Connecticut, after a long illness.
Scott, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and professor emeritus of anthropology, who also held an appointment in environmental studies, worked at Yale from 1976 until his retirement in 2021.
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His ten books, spanning multiple disciplines, were unparalleled contributions to the interpretive social sciences, many of them focusing on Southeast Asian agrarian societies, peasant resistance, and critiques of statecentered development. They include The Moral Economy of the Peasant (1976), Weapons of the Weak (1985), Domination and the Arts of Resistance (1990), Seeing Like a State (1998), The Art of Not Being Governed (2009), Two Cheers for Anarchism (2012), Against the Grain (2017), and In Praise of Floods, scheduled to be published by Yale University Press in February 2025
Another of Scott’s enduring achievements is founding the groundbreaking Program in Agrarian Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center. He was the longtime director of the program, known for its broad range across political science, history, anthropology, geography, and agrarian and environmental studies. Now thirty-three years old and thriving, the program has brought together students and scholars from across the world to think, discuss, argue, and learn. The dozens of books published in Yale University Press’s “Agrarian Studies” series stand as permanent testimony to the group’s scholarly contribution.
The Program in Agrarian Studies and the Council on Southeast Asia Studies held several events in 2024 celebrating Scott’s life and legacy.
Read Yale's full tribute here: https://tinyurl.com/ytnjb6hh
James Scott mentored many scholars over the years, including David Thang Moe (right), a postdoctoral associate in Southeast Asian studies from Myanmar (Burma), pictured with Scott at his farm.
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HOW WE WORK
The MacMillan Center is a resource for all members of the Yale academic community. The strength of the Center relies on strong leadership and administrative support, with the majority of our activities being realized through our regional councils and global programs.
VALUES
These values are the guiding principles of the MacMillan Center. They are reflected in our daily decision-making as well as in our longer-term planning.
Academic Excellence
Cultivate and support deep scholarship and excellent teaching.
Disciplinarity
Enable deep exploration within traditional disciplines and dynamic collaboration across academic fields.
Collaboration & Community
Catalyze relationships on campus and in the world.
Diversity, Inclusivity & Equality
Advance diversity and inclusivity in our programs and practices in pursuit of meaningful exchange.
Curiosity & Impact
Embrace intellectual inquiry for its own sake and for impact-oriented scholarship.
regional councils
MacMillan is home to seven regional councils focused on , , , , t, , and . These are integral, permanent parts of the Center that advance deep understanding of the world through regional lenses and foster synergy among faculty from various disciplines throughout Yale. Five of the councils host undergraduate majors and three o er master’s programs, creating direct academic connections to area studies for students at Yale.
global programs
As a complement to the Center’s regional councils, MacMillan’s global programs explore historical and contemporary trends, practices, and theories through interdisciplinary, transnational lenses. Seeking to explore issues of global consequence and foster deep disciplinary exploration, each global program is shaped by the vision and leadership of selected Yale faculty members, o en in collaboration with scholars, practitioners, students, and policymakers from throughout the world.
LOOKING FORWARD
As we act on our aspirations to , , and , the MacMillan Center will continue to fortify its identity as Yale’s central hub for international activities.
We will ensure that Yale is welcoming to scholars and visitors from all parts of the world.
We will create and invest in partnerships and nurture collaboration and knowledge exchange through networks.
We will spotlight the value of regional studies even as we encourage collaboration across boundaries, across disciplines, and across generations.
