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Yale Architecture Forum

COUNCIL ON LATIN AMERICAN & IBERIAN STUDIES

FEMINIST THEORY ON FIRE AND REVOLT Amneris Chaparro, UNAM Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género, Rice Fellow, Yale University

Culinary Racism and the Small Spaces of Empire:

In collaboration with Yale MacMillan Center and Rice Fellowship

a lecture by Dr. Swati Chattopadhyay Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire

APRIL 4th | 12 PM LUCE HALL, ROOM 203

Monday, September 18, 6:30pm Smith Conference Room, Rudolph 322 Presented by the Yale School of Architecture, the Department of the History of Art, and the Yale Macmillan Center South Asian Studies Council

2023 Impact Report The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies at Yale University

Heavenly Bodies over Asia Yale University March 3 - 5, 2023

SOVATHIRO MAO

Friday, March 3

Covid-19 Response in Cambodia

Reception and Keynote The Blake Hotel

Saturday, March 4 and Sunday, March 5 Presentations The Greenberg Conference Center

Monday, October 9th 4:00-5:00pm Henry R. Luce Hall Room 203

Brought to you by Fox International Fellowship in partnership withMarch YaleCHESS Sunday, 5

Saturday, March 4 9:30a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

“From Astrology to Embryology: The Cult of the Northern Dipper in Tendai Buddhism”

“The Evolution of Rahu and Ketu in East Asia: Astrology, Religion, and Iconography” Jeffrey Kotyk, University of Bologna

Bernard Faure, Columbia University

“How to ‘see’ the moon and extend one’s life: Buddhist rituals for celestial 14th bodies in medieval Ayşe Zarakol is Professor of International Relat September the University of Cambridge and a Politics Fell Japan”

"Zodiac, decans, nakshatras– transmission of astral imagery on the medieval Northern Silk Road"

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Emmanuel College. Her research is at the inters of IR and historical sociology, focusing on East

Lucia Dolce,House SOAS Universityrelations of in the international system, history and Provost's London of world order(s), conceptualisations of modern

35 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT

Lilla Russell-Smith, Asian Art Museum, Berlin, Germany

sovereignty, rising and declining powers, and T politics in a comparative perspective.

11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

“Fatalism as Good Policy: On the Intersection of Astral Science and Political Theory in Medieval India”

11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

JORGE PERUGORRÍA

“Writing her fate: two women’s astrological manuals from Roman Egypt”

Marko Geslani, University of South Carolina

Lingxin Zhang, Yale University

“India's Iron Cage? Astrology, Shanidev, and Devotional IS A RENOWNED CUBAN ACTOR AND DIRECTOR Religion”

“Moving Spirits: The Heavens in the Body and Mind-Body Dualism”

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Carla Bellamy, Baruch College, TO JORGE City University of AND New TRIBUTE York

Lisa Raphals, University of California, Riverside

2:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

THURSDAY FILM “The Beginnings of Perso-Arabic SCREENING: in India: From Sahl ibn MARCH 30 Astrology BishrYtoCHOCOLATE Samarasimha” FRESA 6 PM

1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

“A Horoscope within a Buddhist Mandala: The Met Star Mandala’s Meeting of Aesthetics and Science”

(STRAWBERRY AND CHOCOLATE) Gansten, LundFOLLOWED University BY Q&A WITH JORGE PERUGORRÍA AMartin 30 YEAR TRIBUTE

Elizabeth Tinsley, University of California, Irvine “Between Mandala and Horoscope: The Art of Tangut Astrology” Michelle McCoy, University of Pittsburgh

“Sasanian astrology: a diverse doctrinal corpus”

FRIDAY FILM SCREENING: Raffaelli, University of Toronto MARCH 31 EnricoLOS JARDINES DE LA REINA

7 PM “Further Considerations on the Cords ofOF Wind the (THE GARDENS THEwithin QUEEN) Indian and IranianFOLLOWED Cosmological and their

BY ASystems, PANEL DISCUSSION WITH JORGE PERUGORRÍA, REINALDO FUNES, SARAOrigins” SANTIAGO, AND JESÚS PUERTO

9 PMAntonio RECEPTION HOSTED BY CUBANAKOA AT THE LUCE HALL COMMON Panaino, University of Bologna ROOM, 34 HILLHOUSE AVE., SECOND FLOOR

SATURDAY

FILM SCREENING: FÁTIMA O EL PARQUE DE LA FRATERNIDA

https://ceas.yale.edu/heavenly-bodies-over-asia-march-2023 APRIL 1 4 PM 7 PM

9 PM 9.30 PM

(FÁTIMA OR THE FRATERNITY PARK) FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH JORGE PERUGORRÍA

FILM SCREENING: SE VENDE (FOR SALE) FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH JORGE PERUGORRÍA CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION

RECEPTION HOSTED BY SOUL DE CUBA CAFÉ AND PERFORMANCE BY MARIACHI LUX ET VERITAS DE YALE AT LUCE HALL COMMON ROOM, 34 HILLHOUSE AVE., SECOND FLOOR

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Sept 14, 2023 | 4:00 pm ET Luce Hall, Rm 203 & Zoom 34 Hillhouse Ave. Reception to Follow Supported by the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture Fund After the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian regime has undergone a significant transformation, which involves not only the most brutally suppression of any dissent, but an attempt to establish the full ideological unity of society. What are the components of this ideology? Through which institutions is it approved?

How is it related to militaristic mobilization and how effective is it? And does the ruling class of Putin's Russia believe in its own ideology?

Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies Colloquia Series

Register to attend on zoom:

Join us for a

free screening of the film, followed by Q&A with the director.

Open to the public.

Tuesday March 28 6pm Bregamos Theater 491 Blatchley Ave.

New Haven

Spring 2023 All talks at Rosenkranz Hall, Room 241

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February

Understanding the Many Uses of Ser and Estar Across the Dialects of Spanish Maria Mercedes Piñango, Yale University, Linguistics 1 p.m.

In Collaboration with the Department of Linguistics

Unveiling Patterns of Violence in Truth Commissions through Statistics Valentina Rozo-Angel, 2022-23 Fox International Fellow 12 p.m.

In collaboration with Yale MacMillan Center’s Fox International Fellowship

February

Plus Habuit Pelagus Quam Liber Ille Salis: Poetic Multilingualism in Portuguese America Leni Ribeiro Leite, University of Kentucky, Classics 12 p.m.

Hosted by Erika Valdivieso, Classics

March

Mestizo Geographies: Race, Gender and Environment in Oaxaca, Mexico Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, Lake Forest College, Latin American & Latinx Studies and Anthropology 12 p.m.

Hosted by María de los Angeles Aguilar, Latin American Studies

April

Feminist Theory on Fire and Revolt Amneris Chaparro, UNAM Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género, Rice Fellow, Yale University Luce Hall, Room 203 12 p.m.

In collaboration with Yale MacMillan Center and Rice Fellowship Destruyendo la Semilla: Children and Adolescents as Internal Enemies of the

Jennifer Cárcamo Salvadoran scholar, filmmaker & organizer

Introduced by Dr. Maria Aguilar (Yale)

SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES COUNCIL PRESENTS

Pakistan-US Partnership for Regional Peace and Stability SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2023 | 2 PM LUCE HALL ROOM 203

His Excellency Ambassador

Masood Khan

Ambassador Masood Khan is currently serving as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States. He has also served as the President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir from 2016 to 2021. Before serving as the President, he was the Director General of the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad, one of the top think tanks in Pakistan.

OUR VALUES Collaboration & Community In our role as Yale’s international hub, we are a catalyst for academic relationships throughout the university and with external partners. We are also committed to serving as a gathering place and resource for Yale’s community members.

From the Director

The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies serves all of Yale.

Through the work of our area studies councils, global programs, and fellowships, and through our teaching, we connect the university to the world and bring disciplinary breadth and depth to international studies at Yale.

Disciplinarity We support both unrestricted academic exploration within traditional disciplines, and dynamic collaboration within and across academic fields and schools.

Academic Excellence We value and support deep scholarship and excellent teaching to produce new insights in the academy and beyond. We use innovative research to engage contemporary challenges, while drawing on lessons of history to understand the past and inform the future.

Curiosity & Impact We embrace intellectual inquiry into international societies and cultures past and present for its own sake and to contribute meaningfully to actions and outcomes in communities, in regions, and around the globe.

The insights we provide and the impact we make—through collaborations with engaged partners around the world—are especially critical given the environmental, social, and political challenges we face today.

Steven I. Wilkinson Henry R. Luce Director, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies January 2024

Diversity, Inclusivity & Equality Recognizing our power as an institution and our role as a center for international research and teaching, we strive to embed diversity and inclusivity into our programs and practices. We foster relationships with institutions and communities around the world in pursuit of meaningful exchange — both sharing and absorbing knowledge.

The Center in Action

By the Numbers

July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023

>400 events convened, including conferences, seminars, film screenings, and cultural performances

39 Class of 2023 students

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23 graduate students 14 undergraduates 2 BA/MA

$2,543,694

countries where students were funded for projects

Alumni

Faculty

Visiting

total support awarded to students

2,152 living alumni 33 countries where alumni live $2,643,165 total support awarded to faculty 166 faculty members who received MacMillan support >375 faculty members affiliated with the MacMillan Center 101 visiting scholars (including multi-year language

lectors, postdoctoral associates, and postdoctoral fellows)

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awards

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.

Cécile Fromont, professor of history of art, received the 2023 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize for best book for Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola (Penn State University Press). The prize committee described Fromont’s book as “a remarkable combination of art, history, [and] cross-cultural studies” that is “extraordinary— both broad in themes and foci, and deep in level of analyses of the art and documents and their significance.” The committee commended her book as “provid[ing] a critical lens from which to view the beauty and sovereignty of African cultures and their contact with Europeans,” marked by “breakthrough analyses and perspectives on two interacting cultures.”

Didac Queralt, assistant professor of political science, received the 2023 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize for best first book by a Yale ladder faculty member for Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance (Princeton University Press). The prize committee noted that “Queralt’s smartly argued and deeply researched characterization of [the cross-national lending] system is exquisite.” The committee’s overall assessment was that “[t]his book is a marvel of detail as well as theory and measurement that offers takeaway sketches of policymaking in, among other places, Siam, Ethiopia, Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, China, and the Ottoman Empire.”

Appointments Henry Hart Rice Visiting Lecturers Honoring the legacy of Henry Hart Rice, who believed that “there are many worthy causes, but none can prosper unless we can avoid nuclear war,” the Henry Rice Visiting Lectureship Fund was created to enrich the Yale community’s understanding of the world’s cultures by bringing in visiting lecturers to teach and dialogue with members of the Yale community. It supports one- or two-semester residencies at Yale for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who come from countries and cultures where there is a mutual need to improve relations and foster understanding with the United States. Eligible scholars are from the countries of Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe that are not members of the European Union, as well as the Caucasus, China, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia, South and Southeast Asia, and Turkey.

Nominated by a Yale faculty mentor from one of the area studies councils, each Rice Lecturer teaches one undergraduate course per semester on a subject related to their own region that supplements the council’s regular course offerings.

An equally important role of the Rice Lecturer is to fully engage in the life of the council through formal and informal intellectual exchange with students and faculty.

Rice Visiting Lecturers Andrei Kureichik (Belarus), David Moe (Myanmar/ Burma), Homeira Qadari (Afghanistan), and Bezhan Pazhohan (Afghanistan)

All events, awards, and appointments covered in this report took place September 2022–December 2023

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AWARDS

Endowed Lectures MacMillan stewards several endowed funds aimed at bringing thought-leaders to campus.

This year, the Fox International Fellowship celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary with nearly 100 current Fox Fellows, alumni, and friends returning to campus. The Fox Fellowship is a yearlong graduate student exchange program between the Yale MacMillan Center and twenty-one prestigious academic partners around the world. Yale hosts a cohort of approximately twenty Fox Fellows from partner institutions on its campus and sends around eighteen Yale students on exchange to the partners each year. Established in 1988

by Joseph Carrère Fox ’38, the fellowship exists to enhance mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and other countries by promoting international scholarly exchanges and collaborations among the next generation of leaders.

“The Fox community is so vibrant, diverse, and intellectually excellent in every way.... Very little can surpass the incredible intellectual, cultural, and social benefits of cross-cultural exchange.”

Emily Erikson Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, the School of Management; Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship

Attendees at the Fox International Fellowship Reunion gathered in Yale’s Divinity Quadrangle on May 8, 2023.

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 Stimson Lecture Series brings to campus distinguished diplomats and foreign policy experts who have published books with Yale University Press.

Established in 1988, the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture at the MacMillan Center highlights speakers and topics of global significance.

Since 1992, the Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale University has supported an annual lecture on topics of international significance by a major public figure.

Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate, Mary Sarotte Mary Sarotte, the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, delivered the Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs at the MacMillan Center in September 2022.

This series of three lectures, based on her book Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate from Yale University Press, detailed the diplomacy and tension between the U.S., NATO, and Russia regarding the expansion of NATO during the post-Soviet period.

“Personality Cults and Democratic Decline,” Ramachandra Guha Prominent Indian historian and public intellectual Ramachandra Guha delivered a series of lectures at Yale in November 2022.

Arranged by the South Asian Studies Council (SASC), these talks included the annual Gandhi Lecture, a talk on sports history, and conversations with SASC faculty. As part of his visit, Professor Guha also delivered MacMillan’s annual George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture on “Personality Cults and Democratic Decline,” which focused on national personality cults in Indian politics.

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COUNCILS MacMillan’s councils are integral, permanent parts of the Center that foster a deep understanding of the world on a regional level. These councils cover the areas of Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America and Iberia, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. They offer a way to connect faculty across departments and disciplines who share common research interests, cultural knowledge, and a focus on specific geographic regions. By facilitating common space and room for discussion, MacMillan’s councils allow faculty to fully explore the peoples and societies of these regions in the context of their history, culture, politics, economics, religion, and linguistic heritage. Many of MacMillan’s councils also host undergraduate majors and MA programs, creating a direct academic connection to area studies for students at Yale.

The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies is Yale’s central hub for intellectual

exchange about Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. The Council promotes the understanding of these regions through collaborative work with faculty, students, and internal and external partners, including several networks.

The Council on African Studies fosters an

academic environment where students and faculty seek novel approaches to emerging issues in African studies through joint endeavors across institutions at Yale, regionally, and in partnership with colleagues on the continent.

The Council on Southeast Asia Studies

oversees a multifaceted interdisciplinary program promoting education, research, and intellectual exchange on the cultures, politics, history, and economies of Southeast Asia.

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The European Studies Council promotes

innovative research on Europe in the context of regional and global interactions. The Council collaborates throughout Yale to foster an understanding of Europe as both a place and an idea, reflecting the evolving nature of the region.

The Council on Middle East Studies is a leading center of excellence for Middle East research and teaching on the local, national, and international levels, where students and faculty can debate the myriad historical, political, and cultural issues of relevance to the contemporary Middle East and North Africa.

The Council on East Asian Studies provides an important interdisciplinary forum for academic exploration and support for the study of East Asia, bringing together scholars who specialize in, across, and beyond China, Japan, and Korea.

The South Asian Studies Council cultivates a comprehensive understanding of historical and contemporary South Asia. The Council seeks to foster lively intellectual exchange from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives by integrating teaching and research on traditional South Asia with contemporary study of the region.

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GLOBAL PROGRAMS Global Programs support the MacMillan Center’s mission to promote a more informed, inclusive, and flourishing world by nurturing scholarship and exchanges across a range of thematic areas.

As a complement to the Center’s regional councils, these programs adopt an interdisciplinary, transnational lens to generate new insights on topics of global importance by examining historical and contemporary trends, practices, and theories.

Led by members of Yale’s faculty and drawing upon world-class scholarship from within and outside the university, our Global Programs interrogate the structural causes of global challenges, while advancing innovative approaches that enable new forms of inquiry within and outside the humanities and social sciences. By inviting a diversity of perspectives, including from scholars, practitioners, students, and policymakers, these programs transform our collective understanding of the past as well as the present world we inhabit.

Buddhist Studies Brings together individuals and units at Yale interested in the scholarly study of Buddhism and coordinates scholarly events, courses, conferences, and outreach activities.

Center for Historical Enquiry & the Social Sciences Bridges the divide between the social sciences and humanities, bringing together a diverse complement of scholars to answer large questions that help us better understand the world we live in.

Center for the Study of Representative Institutions Develops the interdisciplinary study of the theory and practice of representative government in the Anglo-American tradition.

Committee on Canadian Studies Promotes scholarship and teaching related to Canada.

Conflict, Resilience, and Health Builds resilience and health in communities afflicted by armed conflict or structural violence.

Fox International Fellowship Facilitates exchange between Yale University and twenty-one world-renowned academic partners to promote international scholarly engagement and collaboration among the next generation of leaders.

Genocide Studies Program Conducts research, seminars, and conferences on comparative, interdisciplinary, and policy issues relating to the phenomenon of genocide, and has provided training to researchers from afflicted regions.

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Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15234069

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Investigates and disseminates knowledge concerning slavery and its legacies across all borders and all time, from the distant past through the present day.

Hellenic Studies Program Teaches modern Greek, supplemented by other courses and events related to the study of post-antiquity Greece, as well as the society and culture of modern Greece and its interaction with the rest of Europe and the world.

Humbolt Yale History Network Sustains a global research network of historians by funding short-term research projects, travel to archives and libraries, and conferences.

Inclusion Economics Creates policy-engaged research to promote inclusive institutions, economies, and societies.

InterAsia Initiative Aims to shift paradigms of how Asia is conceptualized by promoting collaborative research, scholarly networking, and public policy connections.

Leitner Program on Political Economy Promotes research and teaching about the interactions between politics and economics around the world. Serves as the center for research and teaching in the field of political economy on campus.

Political Violence and its Legacies Workshop Fosters a wide-ranging conversation at Yale and beyond about political violence and its effects that transcends narrow disciplinary and methodological divisions.

Program in Agrarian Studies Engages in an experimental, interdisciplinary effort to reshape how a new generation of scholars understands rural life and society.

Program on Peace and Development Promotes discourse among academics and practitioners to address issues related to ongoing conflicts or post-conflict politics.

Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses Serves as an intellectual hub for research, teaching, and policy recommendations that takes a people-centered approach to the refugee experience.

Translation Initiative Promotes the interdisciplinary study of translation at Yale and beyond, encompassing its literary, social, political, economic, legal, technological, and medical dimensions.

Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) Advances research on the effects of policy interventions when delivered at scale.

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Promoting understanding

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of the world and in the world.

PRIORITIES In its role as a central resource to all disciplines, departments, and schools at Yale, MacMillan encompasses the full scope of international and regional engagement throughout the university. MacMillan faculty and students conduct deep research on societies and states around the world, using the full range of methods in the humanities and social sciences. We also foster connections throughout Yale that enable our scholars to advance their work in fields such as science and public health. Our teaching and service activities offer students from Yale and around the world the cultural, linguistic, and regional context they need to become better-informed global citizens, professionals, leaders, and scholars.

As an academic hub, the MacMillan Center supports intellectual freedom while also fostering synergy around thematic priorities that resonate throughout its councils and within the global programs.

Humanity Engaging global voices to better understand ourselves and others.

Understanding what it is to be human is a question explored across all cultures and societies. As we engage with this question on an international stage, we seek to learn collaboratively and engage with an array of voices at Yale, in New Haven, and across the globe. Through the study and teaching of disciplines such as language, arts, history, philosophy, religion, literature, and the various social sciences, we seek to inspire the next generation to never lose sight of the wonder and scope of human potential across the world. In our interdisciplinary translation work, we leverage essential literary, social, political, economic, legal, technological, and medical dimensions that are increasingly central to the workings of the contemporary world.

A Night of Traditional Japanese Storytelling Comic Tatekawa Shinoharu ’99 returned to campus on March 30, but it wasn’t a typical stand-up set. As a master of rakugo, a traditional genre of Japanese comedy, Tatekawa sat down on a cushion at center stage.

His performance was part of an evening of traditional Japanese storytelling featuring performances of rakugo and rokyoku, sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies.

Ukraine in Words: Poetry, Translation, and Cultural Preservation This program cosponsored by the Translation Initiative and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) brought together poets Iya Kiva, Danik Zadorozhny, and Galina Rymbu virtually to discuss poetry and translation emerging from Ukraine. Yale History PhD student Orel Beilinson introduced and spoke about his experiences working as a translator in real time during the ongoing crisis.

Photos by Mara Lavitt

Stuck in the Middle? The Third Middle Period China Humanities Conference (220–1600) Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, the “Stuck in the Middle” conference provided an opportunity for both young and experienced Middle Period China scholars working on various dynasties and in different disciplines to interact.

Discussions encouraged the contemplation of the most meaningful ways to divide this large expanse of time and consider how the issues of periodization may be affecting research. Over 120 people came from China, Europe, Japan, Korea, and the U.S., and many parts of the multiday conference were hybrid with participants from all over the world.

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Ofrenda: Honoring Victims of Social Injustice through Dance The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS) kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month with “Ofrenda,” a performance art piece by award-winning Mexican artist and choreographer Stephanie García. In “Ofrenda,” García explained, “the terrible is sublimated through a communal offering” to honor all people who have been murdered or have disappeared because of “violence, femicide, racial crimes, migration, and other injustices.” García engaged in lively conversations with Yale students from La Casa Cultural, and with members of community partner organizations, including Hispanic youth interested in the arts, and senior Hispanic residents of the Fair Haven neighborhood.

Ofrenda photos by Stephanie Anestis

Was Tolstoy a Colonial Landlord?

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Edyta Bojanowska, professor of Slavic languages and literatures and chair of the European Studies Council at Yale University, was awarded the 2022 Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History for her article “Was Tolstoy a Colonial Landlord? The Dilemmas of Private Property and Settler Colonialism on the Bashkir Steppe,” Slavic Review 81.2 (2022):324-348.

“We wanted to offer an experience that reflected the richness and quality of Hispanic art and, at the same time, exemplified the multidisciplinary perspective we are encouraging, which weaves together academy, art, and activism.”

Claudia Valeggia Professor of Anthropology; Chair, Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies

Human dignity includes such things as gender and racial equality, understanding of religious and cultural differences, access to education and livelihoods, the right to free expression, and freedom from slavery and torture. At MacMillan, our engagement reflects deep empirical and historical study, and well-designed analytically rigorous research that focuses on issues such as conflict moderation, reducing discrimination against migrants and refugees, and gender-inclusive development. We also provide, to the extent possible, an academic home to international scholars who have had to flee persecution and discrimination.

“Rags. Petrol. Matches”

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Dignity Scholarship and intervention to promote respect and human rights.

Global classroom: Yale instructors open courses to students in post-coup Myanmar

The opportunity to engage with students in Myanmar (Burma) is one of the positive outcomes of pandemic-era innovation in digital learning. While the Southeast Asian nation has struggled with unrest and political instability since a military coup in early 2021 ousted the country’s democratically elected government, educators across the country are trying to keep students in classrooms, often through fully online programs. Working with the Virtual Federal University, an online-only university that is part of a civil disobedience movement against the military junta, Erik Harms, professor of Anthropology & Southeast Asia Studies and chair of the Council on Southeast Asia Studies, has opened his classroom to supplement the education of Burmese students.

Resistance and Struggle Across Racial Regimes: Germany, South Africa, and the United States

To commemorate International Women’s Day, Visiting Professor and Rice Fellow at the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS) Amneris Chaparro Martinez, a feminist political theorist from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), delivered a lecture titled “Rags.

Petrol. Matches.” on March 8, 2023. In her lecture, Chaparro Martinez explored the different means that women in Latin America today use in both public and virtual spaces to convey their demands, including hashtags, humor, monument interventions, performance, destruction, Molotov bombs, hammers, and rags, petrol, and matches.

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Co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, the “Resistance and Struggle Across Racial Regimes” symposium examined resistance to the race-based legal orders and social hierarchies of the Jim Crow United States, Nazi Germany, and apartheid-era South Africa.

In the first panel, scholars explored the regimes’ histories and the roles of collective action in opposing them. Next, a panel of K-12 teachers discussed pedagogical approaches for teaching these topics while utilizing museums, archives, and historical sites.

“Writing Memory,” a Talk by Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah

Photo by Harold Shapiro

In April 2023, the Council on African Studies hosted Nobel laureate and celebrated author Abdulrazak Gurnah for a two-day visit to campus, where he spoke on “Writing Memory” and met with Yale students. Gurnah, a Zanzibar-born British novelist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021— the first Black writer to receive the prize since Toni Morrison (1993), and the first African writer since Nadine Gordimer (1991). In his lecture, Gurnah asked the audience to consider the definition of “refugee,” and spoke of the moral obligation to offer hospitality to people in danger and to avoid criminalizing the desire for safety and self-fulfillment. Discussing writing as a form of resistance, Gurnah argued that writing resists the often state-sponsored encouragement to forget what has led to the present—the compulsion toward distortion, distraction, or neglect. But in addition, writing is also “about the ordinary mundane business of keeping alive what is important, which is about how people imagine themselves, and how they see and describe the world they live in.”

Good Governance Exploring and advancing effective and inclusive leadership.

Transparency, fairness, accountability, and equity are critical to good governance. MacMillan scholars examine debates over governance and representative institutions to understand what has been effective in the past and consider models that may be applicable for the environmental, political, and social challenges of our world today. Some of our programs and affiliates consider how societies and thinkers have addressed governance challenges through the ages, while others are intended to inspire replicable and scalable change today.

Strategies for Sustainable Peacebuilding: Implementation and Policy

Negotiating Pluralism: Dilemmas of Decentralization in the Middle East Aslı Ü. Bâli, professor of law at Yale Law School, presented her co-edited book Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa in the Council on Middle East Studies Fall Colloquium. In the context of the protest movements across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) since the 2000s, Bâli discussed case studies contributed by academics and policymakers which examined the law and politics surrounding government reform toward democratization and improved governance in the Middle East.

Political Violence and its Legacies

In this two-day colloquium, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers spoke about implementation challenges to designing resilient peace agreements, as well as engaged monitoring and fostering of public participation when integrating peace agreements into policy.

Co-organized by Catherine Panter-Brick, the Bruce A. and Davi-Ellen Chabner Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs at Yale; Ambassador Bisa Williams ’76, senior fellow at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs; and Josefina Echavarría, professor at the University of Notre Dame, the conference’s two keynotes focused on dilemmas of peace-making and strategic delivery of negotiated peace agreements. Specific examples were drawn from Africa, South America, and Ireland. The Council on African Studies, the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, the Program on Conflict, Resilience, and Health, and the Program on Peace and Development co-sponsored this event with the Jackson School of Global Affairs.

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The MacMillan Political Violence and its Legacies workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for work in progress by Yale faculty and graduate students, as well as scholars from other universities. The fall 2023 lecture series included “The Science of Transitional Justice: A Critical Review of the Field with New Data from Iraq and Ukraine” (Mara Revkin, Duke University. with Ala’ Alrababa’h and Rachel Myrick), “Post-Authoritarian Purges: From a Global to Subnational Perspective” (Monika Nalepa, University of Chicago, with Barbara Piotrowska), “Our Grief has Turned to Anger: An Affective Re-Reading of Boko Haram” (Daniel Agbiboa, Harvard University), “From Victims to Resilient Citizens: The Policy Feedback Effects of State Violence” (Yanilda González, Harvard University), “The Guantánamo Phenomenon” (Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara), and “Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent” (Jillian Schwedler, City University of New York — Hunter College).

“Some People Need Killing”

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Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies in October 2023, internationally renowned journalist Patricia Evangelista offered remarks on her debut book, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country, which is a powerful, on-the-ground account of a nation careening into a violent autocracy, told through the harrowing stories of the Philippines’ state-sanctioned killings of its citizens.

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Environment Balancing the needs of people and the planet.

Humans depend on the natural world for food, medicine, energy, clean air, and water, protection from natural disasters, and more.

Ecology also figures heavily in culture, religion, and traditions in all regions of the world; yet we are at a pivotal moment in history: habitat loss, movement of invasive species, and climate change have brought us to the brink of a biodiversity crisis that stands to compromise our ability to ensure human well-being and economic prosperity for all. MacMillan’s councils and programs deepen our understanding of ecological themes in literature, language, tradition, and more.

“Lives in Transition: The Health of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America”

“What became clear to me as I was researching for the book is Africa’s centrality to media production and distribution, whether we are thinking about natural resources, such as coltan and oil, or the actual repatriation of discarded objects back to Africa.”

Cajetan Iheka Professor of English; Chair, Council on African Studies; Director, Whitney Humanities Center

In 2022, 46.7% of all New Haven Public School students were Hispanic/Latino. To support this community and help New Haven educators better understand their majority-Hispanic student population, the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies and the Yale Office of New Haven Affairs co-sponsored a professional development series for K-12 teachers. In the first session, “Lives in Transition: The Health of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America,” professor of anthropology and CLAIS chair Claudia Valeggia discussed her findings from more than twenty-six years of research with indigenous peoples in Latin America, particularly the Qom, an indigenous group of the Gran Chaco region of Argentina.

Professor Claudia Valeggia with Chacoan indigenous participants in her Chaco Area Reproductive Ecology (CARE) Program

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“We can all learn from each other if we are aware of the similarities and differences in culture and local biologies, with the goal of increasing empathy and having a more tailored approach to the needs of underrepresented communities.”

Claudia Valeggia Professor of Anthropology; Chair, Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies

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African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics Cajetan Iheka, professor of English, chair of the Council on African Studies, and director of the Whitney Humanities Center, won the 2022 African Studies Association Best Book Prize for African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics.

In October 2022, Iheka convened the Black Environmentalisms Symposium, bringing together scholars, writers, artists, and practitioners to grapple with Black environmental precarity across the diaspora. The conference aimed to recalibrate the theory and practice of environmental studies from a Black humanistic angle, centering Black communities as ground zero for equitable planetary changes.

“Urban Lab: Iceland” In October 2022, five undergraduate students from Assistant Professor Joyce Hsiang’s course “Urban Lab: An Urban World” accompanied the Yale School of Architecture professor on an intense five-day trip to Iceland to visit the sites and study the issues that Hsiang is investigating in her research. Funded by MacMillan, Hsiang’s research project, “Sites Unknown: An Atlas of Architecture & Urbanization in the Anthropocene,” explores how even the most remote places—from the South Pole to the North Pole, the depths of the ocean floor to outer space—are in fact urban, mapping out how a series of seemingly un-urban sites are inextricably linked to global systems and urban life.

“One might think this landscape is some serene vision of nature.

However, everything in this picture is urban, shaped by the Anthropocene human.”

Nina Grigg ’24, while overlooking Stjórnarfoss waterfall

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Climate Change Exploring the complexities of global warming through international and regional lenses.

Climate change is disrupting the natural, economic, and social systems we rely on, which is shifting our ability to ensure human health and well-being — especially of the most vulnerable populations. While global-scale commitments are critical to a just transition away from fossil fuels, there is a need for solutions that are tailored to local and cultural contexts, drawing on deep historical and area knowledge. MacMillan elevates inquiry and action that reflect the urgency of one of the most daunting social challenges of our time — offering particularly critical regional insights.

“Navigating the Future”

Photos courtesy of the Africa Climate Mobility Initiative

In September 2023, the Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses at the MacMillan Center hosted “Navigating the Future: Harnessing Data-Driven Insights on Climate Mobility to Build a Common Agenda,” a program with David Lönnberg and Sarah Rosengaertner from the Global Centre for Climate Mobility, who addressed recent climate mobility work in Africa and the Caribbean. The Global Centre for Climate Mobility works with the United Nations, UNICEF, the World Bank, and others to promote evidence-based policy on climate mobility.

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Colonialism, Imperialism, and the Socioeconomic Impact of Climate Change

Sunil Amrith, the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History and chair of the South Asian Studies Council, was 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 the impact of climate change on global socioeconomic conditions.

His most recent book, Unruly Waters, a history of the struggle to understand and control the monsoon in modern South Asia, makes a connection between colonial exploitation and climate change.

The Heineken Prizes, given every two years to five distinguished researchers working on a global scale and to one Dutch artist, are the Netherlands’ most prestigious international arts and sciences prizes.

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Alert System for Flooding for Residents in Rural Areas of India As climate change increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters like floods, lower-income countries—especially poor and marginalized communities—are typically the most at risk. Early warning systems for floods can reduce fatalities, mitigate economic losses, and accelerate post-flood recovery, but the effectiveness of EWS is limited by the lack of infrastructure and scant evidence on how best to relay flood alerts at scale. In 2019, Google piloted a new Android-based flood forecasting and alert system in Bihar, a poor state in eastern India. But while the system’s flood predictions are highly accurate and can send alerts up to twenty-four hours in advance, many of Bihar’s most vulnerable citizens do not own smartphones. The team at Inclusion Economics—led by Rohini Pande, the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University—is working with Google.org on innovations to increase the effectiveness of a cutting-edge early warning system in flood-prone Bihar. The project, currently in implementation, trains grassroots volunteers in community outreach techniques and how to view and use Google’s flood forecasting and alert system on Android phones.

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Societal Resilience Building resilience in individuals and societies.

Societal resilience includes disaster response and preparedness, robust health systems, inclusive growth, and strong social connections that ensure people are mentally, physically, and emotionally able to endure and recover from events such as pandemics, conflict, and natural disasters. MacMillan’s experts understand the full range of how societies and states have adapted to these challenges over time and across different societies. The Center’s regional councils and global programs explore these concepts at the local, regional, and international scales — both for the purpose of generating understanding and for the opportunity to imagine solutions.

“Our findings suggest that increasing volunteer opportunities is one way to help women take on leadership roles within their communities and plant seeds for social change.”

Catherine Panter-Brick Bruce A. and Davi-Ellen Chabner Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs; Faculty Director of the Program on Conflict, Resilience, and Health

Efficient Vaccine Delivery in Sierra Leone A medical vaccine delivery initiative, co-led

by Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) founder and faculty director A. Mushfiq Mobarak, who is Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics at Yale University, will expand in rural Sierra Leone later this year, thanks to a grant from The Mercury Project, a consortium of global researchers addressing affordable, scalable vaccine interventions. Previous research by the same team on COVID-19 vaccinations showed that the fixed cost of reaching remote villages is often the largest cost of delivering health services. Does bundling multiple vaccines (and potentially other health services) improve impact, cost-effectiveness, and scalability by reducing the cost of delivery per person treated? The team is working in partnership with the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation on this research agenda.

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Volunteering Empowers Refugee and Jordanian Women in Poor Urban Communities Providing poor women, including Syrian refugees, in Amman, Jordan, with volunteer opportunities helps them diversify their social networks, enhances their sense of empowerment and well-being, and potentially encourages social change, according to a new study coauthored by Yale anthropologist Catherine PanterBrick. The study, published in the journal World Development, is the first to assess the social networks of women from low-income households in Syrian refugee and host communities in Jordan, and how those social ties influence women’s perceptions of themselves and their place in society.

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“Balancing Architectural Works and Social Contributions” Internationally renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban spoke on “Balancing Architectural Works and Social Contributions” at an event co-hosted by the Yale School of Architecture; the MacMillan Center’s Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses; and the Council on East Asian Studies in April 2023.

Ban has designed elaborate museums, corporate, and residential buildings, yet he is equally well known for his global humanitarian work designing emergency shelters for refugees of war and natural disasters with his novel paper tube structural system.

Ban’s temporary shelters not only captivate with their aesthetic appeal but also serve as high-quality solutions for protecting the environment and people in crisis.

While Ban works with and inspires today’s young socially minded architecture students, he said they are the source of his hope for the future.

Leadership and Service Translating scholarship into insights and solutions.

Yale University educates leaders worldwide who serve all sectors of society. As the university explores transformative ideas — medical and scientific advances, pathways to peace and prosperity, understanding and valuing the natural world, and more — the MacMillan Center plays a critical role by providing deep context through international education, research, and service and by supporting international partnerships and networks to inform decision-making.

Jamaica’s Ministry of Health, Yale, and WHO Tackle Childhood Obesity, Starting at School In March 2023, the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Behavioural Insights Unit signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to work together over the next two years to contribute to the shared goals of promoting and enabling systematic use of the behavioral and social sciences in public health and designing and scaling up evidence-based behavioral interventions. Last spring, the Jamaican minister of health requested technical support for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) team to tackle health-related behaviors in schools; thanks to the MOU, Y-RISE became an implementation partner. The project started by addressing food choices in schools. In the initial phase of the project, Y-RISE is visiting schools jointly with a consultant from PAHO/WHO, where they try to first understand the problem by finding the causes of schoolchildren’s unhealthy dietary habits.

Once ethics approval has been obtained for the research work to begin, national stakeholders, Y-RISE, and WHO will co-design formative research and interventions and implement them in schools across Jamaica, testing them in a randomized control trial to discover the most effective strategies for changing children’s food choices in schools.

Connection, Community, and Celebration in South Asia With a series of trips across India, Nepal, and Pakistan in January 2023, Yale affirmed the ties that have been forged in the region and celebrated Yale’s deepening scholarship on the region.

Steven Wilkinson, vice provost for global strategy, Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center, and Nilekani Professor of India & South Asian Studies, emphasized that the South Asian Studies Council currently includes forty-eight faculty in disciplines ranging from public health to astronomy to religious studies. “Over the past decade, Yale has quietly built up what we think is the finest group of scholars who study South Asia of any of our peers,” Wilkinson said. “It’s a great time to be studying South Asia at Yale.”

“Why are people reluctant to sometimes do things that appear to be good for them, that appear to be helpful to improve their livelihoods?

I try to understand those puzzles.”

A. Mushfiq Mobarak Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics at Yale University; Faculty Director, Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale

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Since 2013, researchers from Inclusion Economics at Yale University—housed jointly by the MacMillan Center and the Economic Growth Center—have collaborated with policymakers in India to use data-informed approaches to improve last-mile delivery of social benefits to vulnerable households. Established in 2006, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act—the world’s largest social assistance program—works to raise incomes and provide economic stability to tens of millions of poor rural households. But program challenges, such as delays in wage payments, can be disastrous for poor households awaiting them and discourage the needy from participating.

In collaboration with Indian policymakers, the team at Inclusion Economics created a novel web and mobile application called PayDash to provide officials with real-time data at their fingertips. In 2020, researchers completed randomized program evaluation across three states in India which showed that PayDash significantly reduces payment delays for rural households working for India’s workfare program. Payment processing times were reduced by 11% overall, with improvements concentrated in high-delay areas, where officers report being particularly busy. Over the next year, the team plans to track the impact of this application on reducing social benefit transfer processing delays for vulnerable households, and to document learnings that can be used by other state governments across India.

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Unlocking Administrative Data to Support Impoverished Households in Rural India

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LOOKING FORWARD Connecting Yale to the World and the World to Yale

Yale University’s commitment to “improving the world today and for future generations through outstanding research and scholarship, education, preservation, and practice” offers a remarkable foundation for the work of the MacMillan Center. In this report, we have chosen to organize the work of our councils and global programs by our seven priorities—humanity, dignity, good governance, environment, climate change, societal resilience, and leadership and service—as evidence of the connections across the Center. The thread that weaves together the remarkably diverse activities and outcomes chronicled here is our commitment to deep and broad scholarship and teaching, engaged with the world.

In the coming year, we expect to leverage our momentum around the priorities defined here to build relationships on campus, in our community, and in the world.

Yale educates aspiring leaders worldwide who serve all sectors of society.

Maya Albold ’24 BA, History and East Asian Studies (China) Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) Hometown: Saint Augustine, Florida

“Serving on the Undergraduate Student Advisory Committee for East Asian studies has been the highlight of my involvement with the Council. I began studying China and Mandarin Chinese my first year as a complete novice.

Being able to offer input directly on how to improve course offerings, make the major more accessible, and generate interest in events is incredibly empowering.

I truly feel like I am part of a larger movement to cultivate more diverse appreciation of the field.”

After graduation, Maya hopes to live abroad for a year in either Mongolia or Nepal working in human rights related to development and migration.

She is particularly interested in how these countries’ border relationship to China influences domestic political action, social structure through diaspora communities, and grassroots advocacy. Ultimately, she hopes to have a career in international humanitarian aid through either USAID or the State Department with a regional focus on Asia.

Maya Albold ’24 and fellow participants met with local hosts during her study abroad program in Nepal in spring 2023, where her research focused on reproductive healthcare for marginalized communities, including Tibetan migrants from China.

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Daevan Mangalmurti ’24 BA, Ethics, Politics & Economics and South Asian Studies South Asian Studies Council (SASC) Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

“The South Asian Studies Council has really enabled me to explore my academic interests in South Asia, build relationships with faculty and contacts in the region, and connect with South Asian student groups on campus.

It’s a key part of my day-to-day life on campus—there’s hardly a day I don’t drop by the office to talk to visiting faculty, chat with other undergraduate student fellows, or get some work done.”

Daevan is planning on working for a few years before returning to academia to pursue graduate studies in political science, particularly focused on the political economy of environmental change in developing countries. He expects that South Asia will be part of that focus, given that the region is home to a huge share of the world’s population and a dynamic mix of political institutions, and is likely to be severely affected by climate change.

Daevan Mangalmurti ’24 traveled to India with several SASC faculty and administrators in January 2023, where he enjoyed meeting Yale alumni in Mumbai, visiting the Taj Mahal on a day trip in Delhi, and browsing bookstores with his professors in Bengaluru.

Juliet Oware ’24 MA MA in African Studies Council on African Studies (CAS) Hometown: Accra, Ghana

“My research on environmental and climate change initiatives in Ghana and South Africa, particularly in regions affected by extractive industries, has underscored the urgent need for comprehensive solutions that bridge education, health, and public policy.... My vision of a more sustainable, equitable, and empowered Africa is what brought me to Yale—to learn, collaborate, and equip myself with the skills and insights necessary to turn this vision into reality.”

Juliet Oware ’24 MA received the council’s prestigious Lindsay Fellowship for Research in Africa on “Agency and Institutions of the Mines Industry in Africa: Gold Governance in Ghana and South Africa,” which allowed her to conduct extensive fieldwork, gather data, and engage with local communities and stakeholders affected by the mining industry.

After graduation, Juliet plans to pursue a PhD in public policy specializing in public health policy. She hopes to work with international organizations such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations to improve healthcare systems, implement effective public health campaigns, and address pressing health issues in African countries.

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MacMillan Center Leadership Steven I. Wilkinson Henry R. Luce Director Melissa Brown Goodall Deputy Director John Beecher Director of Finance & Administration Richard Sosa Senior Director of Engagement Mark Roland Senior Director of Global Programs

MacMillan Center Executive Committee Edyta Bojanowska Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Chair of the European Studies Council Michael Cappello Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Microbial Pathogenesis; Interim Director, Yale Institute for Global Health; Associate Director, MD-PhD Program Emily Erikson Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship; Associate Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, School of Management Tamar Gendler Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science Pericles Lewis Dean of Yale College; Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English Daniel Markovits Guido Calabresi Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Private Law, Yale Law School Gerard Padró i Miquel Professor of Economics and Political Science and Director of the Leitner Program of International and Comparative Political Economy David Post Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Vice President (Academic Affairs), Dean of Faculty, and Visiting Wong Ngit Liong Professor at Yale-NUS College Douglas Rogers Professor and Chair of Anthropology Steven I. Wilkinson Henry R. Luce Director, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies; Vice Provost for Global Strategy; Nilekani Professor of India & South Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science & International Affairs

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The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies at Yale pursues excellence in research, teaching, and capacity-building across societies to bring about a more informed, inclusive, and flourishing world.

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