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A Message from the Director

Welcome to the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

For more than half a century, the MacMillan Center has been at the forefront of international education, training generations of academic, political, business, and nonprofit leaders, as well as citizens from all corners of the world. Today, we continue to offer a wide range of opportunities for students to explore and learn about international and regional affairs, both within and across a wide array of academic disciplines.

The MacMillan Center is Yale’s gateway to the world. Its rich array of researchprojects, graduate programs, and undergraduate majors provides a locus for research and teaching of international affairs, societies, and cultures around the world.

The scholars and teachers at the MacMillan Center have made tremendous contributions to our understanding of the world, and have trained generations of students, many of whom are now at the top of their fields. These range from development economics to government and diplomacy, environmental activism, and the understanding and promotion of global health.

The MacMillan Center endeavors to make understanding the world outside the borders of the United States, and the role of the United States in the world, an integral part of both a liberal arts education for undergraduates and research and professional training for graduate students. We strive to help students learn from and inform the interconnected communities in which we live: local, national, regional, and global.

I hope that all students, whether in graduate, professional, or Yale College programs, will find the MacMillan Center Bulletin a helpful guide as they plan their course of study at Yale.

Ian Shapiro
Henry R. Luce Director, The MacMillan Center
Sterling Professor of Political Science

The President and Fellows of Yale University

President
Richard Charles Levin, B.A., B.LITT., PH.D.

Fellows
Her Excellency the Governor of Connecticut, ex officio.
His Honor the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, ex officio.
George Leonard Baker, Jr., B.A., M.B.A., Palo Alto, California.
Edward Perry Bass, B.S., Fort Worth, Texas.
Roland Whitney Betts, B.A., J.D., New York, New York.
Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes, B.A., M.B.A., New York, New York.
Gerhard Casper, LL.M., Ph.D., LL.D., Atherton, California.
Donna Lee Dubinsky, B.A., M.B.A., Portola Valley, California.
Charles Daniel Ellis, B.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., New Haven, Connecticut.
Mary Gardner Gates, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Seattle, Washington (June 2013).
Jeffrey Powell Koplan, B.A., M.D., M.P.H., Atlanta, Georgia (June 2009).
Maya Ying Lin, B.A., M.Arch., D.F.A., New York, New York (June 2008).
Margaret Hilary Marshall, B.A., M.Ed., J.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts (June 2010).
William Irwin Miller, B.A., M.B.A., Columbus, Indiana (June 2011).
Indra Nooyi, B.S., M.B.A., M.P.P.M., Greenwich, Connecticut.
Barrington Daniels Parker, B.A., LL.B., Stamford, Connecticut.
Margaret Garrard Warner, B.A., Washington, D.C. (June 2012).
Fareed Zakaria, B.A., Ph.D., New York, New York.

The Officers of Yale University

President
Richard Charles Levin, B.A., B.LITT., PH.D.

Provost
Andrew David Hamilton, B.SC., PH.D., F.R.S.

Vice President and Secretary
Linda Koch Lorimer, B.A., J.D.

Vice President and General Counsel
Dorothy Kathryn Robinson, B.A., J.D.

Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development
Bruce Donald Alexander, B.A., J.D.

Vice President for Development
Ingeborg Theresia Reichenbach, Staatsexamen

Vice President for Finance and Administration
Shauna Ryan King, B.S., M.B.A.

Faculty in International and Area Studies

MacMillan Center Faculty

Julia Adams, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology.
Abbas Amanat, D.Phil., Professor of History.
David Cameron, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science.
Patrick Cohrs, D.Phil., Assistant Professor of History.
Thad Dunning, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science.
Eduardo Engel, Ph.D., Professor of Economics.
Laura Engelstein, Ph.D, Henry S. McNeil Professor of History.
J. Joseph Errington, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology.
John Gaddis, Ph.D., Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History.
John Geanakoplos, Ph.D., James Tobin Professor of Economics.
Harvey Goldblatt, Ph.D., Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Phyllis Granoff, Ph.D., Les Hixon Professor of World Religions.
Robert Harms, Ph.D., Professor of History.
Susan Hyde, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science.
Gilbert Joseph, Ph.D., Farnam Professor of History and International Studies.
Stathis Kalyvas, Ph.D., Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science.
Benedict Kiernan, Ph.D., A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History.
Harold Koh, J.D., Dean of Yale Law School; Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law.
Richard Levin, Ph.D., President of the University; Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics.
Ellen Lust-Okar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science.
Giovanni Maggi, Ph.D., Professor of Economics.
Enrique Mayer, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology.
Steven Pincus, Ph.D., Professor of History.
Stephen Pitti, Ph.D., Professor of History.
Mridu Rai, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History.
Frances Rosenbluth, Ph.D., Damon Wells Professor of International Politics.
Bruce Russett, Ph.D., Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations.
Haun Saussy, Ph.D., Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative Literature.
Ian Shapiro, J.D., Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Political Science.
T. N. Srinivasan, Ph.D., Samuel C. Park, Jr. Professor of Economics.
Alec Stone Sweet, Ph.D., Leitner Professor of Law, Politics, and International Studies.
Christopher Udry, Ph.D., Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics.
Elisabeth Wood, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science.
Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan, Ph.D., Professor of the History of Art.

Senior Fesearch Fellows

Michael Auslin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History.
Ivo Banac, Ph.D., Bradford Durfee Professor of History.
Michael Denning, Ph.D., Professor of American Studies and English.
Keller Easterling, M.Arch., Assistant Professor of Architecture.
Ute Frevert, D.V.M., Ph.D., Professor of History.
Matthew Giancarlo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English.
Philip Gorski, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology.
Michael Graetz, LL.B., Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law.
Timothy Guinnane, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and History.
Oona Hathaway, J.D., Associate Professor of Law.
Pierre Landry, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science.
John MacKay, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
John Roemer, Ph.D., Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics.
Nicholas Sambanis, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science.
Maurice Samuels, Ph.D., Professor of French.
James Scott, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Political Science.
David Skelly, Ph.D., Professor of Ecology, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Frank Snowden, Ph.D., Professor of History.
Timothy Snyder, D.Phil., Professor of History.
Susan Stokes, Ph.D., John S. Saden Professor of Political Science.
Peter Swenson, Ph.D., Charlotte Marion Saden Professor of Political Science.
Ivan Szelenyi, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology.
James Vreeland, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science.

Research Fellows

Jennifer Bair, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Gretchen Berland, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine.
Christopher Blattman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science and Economics.
Khalilah Brown-Dean, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Studies and African American Studies.
Keith Darden, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science.
Anna De La O, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science.
Alison Galvani, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health.
Dean Karlan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics.
Karuna Mantena, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science.
Andrew March, D.Phil., Assistant Professor of Political Science.
Nikolay Marinov, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science.
Ato Onoma, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science.
Kishwar Rizvi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the History of Art.
Jennifer Ruger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health.
Vivek Sharma, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science.
Francesca Trivellato, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History.
Elliott Visconsi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English.

Faculty Leadership and Governance

Council Chairs

Council on African Studies
Lamin Sanneh (Divinity; History), Chair
Ann Biersteker (African Studies; Linguistics), Associate Chair; Director of Graduate Studies; Director of Undergraduate Studies

Committee on Canadian Studies
Harvey Goldblatt (Slavic Languages and Literatures), Chair

Council on East Asian Studies
Haun Saussy (Comparative Literature), Chair
Edward Kamens (East Asian Languages and Literatures), Director of Graduate Studies
Koichi Shinohara (Religious Studies), Director of Undergraduate Studies

European Studies Council
Steven Pincus (History), Chair
Timothy Snyder (History), Director of Graduate Studies
Hilary Fink (Slavic Languages and Literatures), Director of Undergraduate Studies

International Affairs Council
Julia Adams (Sociology), Chair
Cheryl Doss (Economics), Associate Chair; Director of Graduate Studies, International Relations
Thad Dunning (Political Science), Director of Undergraduate Studies, International Studies

Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Elisabeth Wood (Political Science), Chair
Marcello Canuto (Anthropology), Director of Undergraduate Studies

Council on Middle East Studies
Ellen Lust-Okar (Political Science), Chair

South Asian Studies Council
Phyllis Granoff (Religious Studies), Chair; Director of Undergraduate Studies

Council on Southeast Asia Studies
J. Joseph Errington (Anthropology), Chair

Program and Center Directors

Program in Agrarian Studies
James Scott (Political Science; Anthropology), Director

British Studies Program/Transitions to Modernity
Steven Pincus (History), Director

Program on Democracy
Susan Stokes (Political Science), Director

Ethnicity, Race, and Migration
Stephen Pitti (History; American Studies), Director
Patricia Pessar (Adjunct; American Studies), Director of Undergraduate Studies

European Union Studies Program
David Cameron (Political Science), Director

Genocide Studies Program
Benedict Kiernan (History), Director

Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Ernesto Zedillo (Economics), Director
Haynie Wheeler, Associate Director

Hellenic Studies Program
John Geanakoplos (Economics), Co-Director
Stathis Kalyvas (Political Science), Co-Director
George Syrimis (European Studies), Associate Program Director

Georg Walter Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy
Frances Rosenbluth (Political Science), Director

Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence
Stathis Kalyvas (Political Science), Director

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
David W. Blight (History; African American Studies), Director

Executive Committee 2006–2007

Ian Shapiro, Chair; Henry R. Luce Director, The MacMillan Center; Sterling Professor of Political Science.
Nancy L. Ruther, Secretary; Associate Director, The MacMillan Center.
Michael Cappello, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Public Health.
Judith Chevalier, William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Finance, School of Management.
Michael Donoghue, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology; Professor of Geology and Geophysics.
Laura Engelstein, Henry S. McNeil Professor of Russian History; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Philip Gorski, Professor of Sociology.
Michael Graetz, Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law.
Daniel Junior, Associate Director, The MacMillan Center.
Richard Kane, Associate Director, The MacMillan Center.
William Kelly, Professor of Anthropology; Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies.
Charles Long, Deputy Provost.
Benjamin Polak, Professor of Economics, School of Management.
Susan Stokes, Professor of Political Science.
Peter Swensen, Charlotte Marion Saden Professor of Political Science.
Christopher Udry, Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics.

Overview

The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale is the University’s focal point for encouraging and coordinating teaching and research on international affairs, societies, and cultures around the world. It draws its strength by tapping the interests and combining the intellectual resources of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and of the professional schools. The MacMillan Center seeks to make understanding the world outside the borders of the United States, and the role of the United States in the world, an integral part of liberal education and professional training at the University. It provides seven undergraduate majors, including four focused on world regions: African, East Asian, Latin American, Russian and East European Studies, and South Asian Studies. Two others are focused globally, one on International Studies and the other on Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. At the graduate level, the MacMillan Center provides four master’s degree programs. Three are regionally focused on African, East Asian, and European and Russian Studies, and one is globally focused on International Relations. The MacMillan Center also sponsors six graduate certificates of concentration through its councils on African, European, International Affairs, Latin American and Iberian, and Middle East Studies. Language training is an integral component of each of the degree and certificate programs. In total, 250–300 students are enrolled in these degree programs in any given year.

Beyond the eleven degree programs and other curricular contributions, the MacMillan Center has numerous interdisciplinary faculty councils, centers, committees, and programs. These provide opportunities for scholarly research and intellectual innovation and encourage faculty and student interchange for undergraduates as well as graduate and professional students. The home of one of the oldest interdisciplinary programs in International Relations, the MacMillan Center is a founding member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), along with Columbia, Georgetown, Princeton, Tufts, and other institutions.

The MacMillan Center extracurricular programs deepen and extend this research-teaching nexus of faculty and students at Yale, with more than 500 lectures, conferences, workshops, roundtables, symposia, film, and art events each year. Virtually all of these are open to the community at large. Its annual flagship lectures, the Coca-Cola World Fund Lecture and the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in International Studies, bring a number of prominent scholars and political figures to the Yale campus. The MacMillan Center reaches a large academic and public audience with a variety of publications including journals, monographs, working papers, and books. Its Program in International Educational Resources (PIER) reaches out to the larger public, especially targeting educators at the primary and secondary (K–12) as well as college levels, with professional and curricular development training programs and services, in addition to teaching materials and electronic resources.

The number of international visiting faculty with the MacMillan Center has also increased dramatically over the past years. In cooperation with several special externally funded programs facilitating exchanges, the MacMillan Center has brought more than seventy-five scholars each year from a range of disciplines and numerous countries to join the Yale community for periods ranging from six weeks to a full academic year. In addition to research, they collectively teach more than forty courses annually.

An enduring commitment of the MacMillan Center is to enable students to spend time abroad to undertake research and other academically oriented international and area studies-related activities. In 2005–2006 it awarded nearly $3 million to 467 Yale students for research, language and other study, and internships abroad.

The Fox International Fellowship Program is a two-way exchange between Yale and eleven partner universities—Moscow State University, Free University of Berlin, Cambridge University, University of Tokyo, Fudan University, Institut d’études de Politiques de Paris, El Colegio de México, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Bogazici University, Tel Aviv University, and University of Cape Town. The fellowship is designed to promote the development of individual relationships and understanding among future leaders on which world peace and prosperity depend. The intention is for the Fox International Fellowship Program to expand in the coming years to achieve worldwide status and coverage, adding other equally distinguished universities in other countries.

Additionally, the MacMillan Center is increasing its capacity to provide fellowships for graduate and professional students to come from various parts of the world to pursue a degree at Yale. The MacMillan Center has provided matching funds to federal grants such as the Muskie Fellowships that bring students from the former Soviet Union to pursue graduate and professional degrees at Yale. Through its success in federal grant programs, the MacMillan Center is able to support fourteen to sixteen U.S. citizens enrolled in advanced degree programs with intensive language study through the Higher Education Act’s Title VI, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships. Other foundation sources provide similar, if smaller, portions of fellowship support targeted at graduate and professional students pursuing internationally oriented degrees or joint degrees between International Relations and the professional schools.

The MacMillan Center is not a school, and most of its faculty have appointments in other units of the University. It works with roughly 250 faculty across the University in any given year and supports fifteen ladder faculty positions, as well as more than seventy-five visiting scholars in different arts and sciences fields. In the last three years, the MacMillan Center has also appointed many language faculty to multiyear appointments in specific international fields and languages including modern Greek, Hindi, Tamil, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Swahili, Yoruba, and Zulu. Additionally, a number of international, interdisciplinary professorships were created at the MacMillan Center in 2002 by the University. To date, two have been endowed—the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of International Studies and the Leitner Professor of Law, Politics, and International Studies.

The efforts by the MacMillan Center to inspire and support cross-disciplinary conversation and debate have been aided significantly by its venue, Henry R. Luce Hall. Made possible by an extraordinary gift from the Luce Foundation, Luce Hall provides the MacMillan Center with 40,000 square feet of elegant, yet practical, class and seminar space, an auditorium and common room, and offices for staff, faculty, and visiting scholars.

History of International and Area Studies at Yale

Yale’s prominence in international and area studies has its roots in the earliest days of the University, with early missionaries trained at Yale who worked in Asia and around the world. Yale had one of the first faculty chairs in a non-western language, Sanskrit, the root language of much of contemporary South Asia. The seeds of a proud Latin Americanist tradition were planted in the early 1900s, with the appointment of Hiram Bingham in 1906 as a professor of history and archaeology who subsequently brought Machu Picchu and Incan civilization to Western attention. At the very beginning of the twentieth century, Yale awarded one of the first U.S. Ph.D.s to an Asian-born scholar, Ken-ichi Asakawa, who later became a distinguished professor of Japanese history and languages at Yale, retiring in 1942. There was an institutional presence for world area studies at Yale as early as the 1930s. Paralleling area studies, Yale’s scholarly strength in international relations grew in the interwar years with the then highly innovative and interdisciplinary Institute of International Studies. This Institute, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation as well as corporate and alumni sponsors, established the first interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at Yale.

During World War II, these parallel academic streams were combined into a formidable set of training programs, geared largely to the needs of the U.S. military in the languages, culture, history, and economics of different parts of the world. After the war, these programs grew into a variety of freestanding interdisciplinary faculty councils with notable strengths in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Russia and Eastern Europe. These interdisciplinary councils were tied loosely to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with resources overseen by the provost. Area studies and international relations efforts at Yale enjoyed support from major foundations, notably the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation. Faculty with interests in Africa formed a council in 1958. With the passage of the National Defense Education Act in 1958, these language and area studies programs also received additional support from the federal government.

In the early 1960s, the University created the Concilium on International and Area Studies with its first director, Professor Arthur Wright. The Concilium’s main purpose was to coordinate and support the efforts of the area studies councils and the remaining activities of the former Institute of International Studies. Some of the councils had organized master’s degrees in their respective area studies, and the Concilium’s faculty director administered the remnants of faculty research support from the Institute and, supported by political science faculty with Institute Ph.D.s, also administered the interdisciplinary M.A. in International Relations. The Concilium’s faculty director was appointed by the provost and, in turn, he nominated the faculty chairs of the constituent councils to be appointed by the dean of the Graduate School. In 1968 the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies faculty initiated its undergraduate major, following the majors that the older councils had established earlier. In the 1970s the Council on Middle East Studies and the Committee on Canadian Studies were established within the Concilium. By the middle of the 1970s the Council on Southeast Asia Studies had abandoned its master’s program, unable to withstand the stresses associated with the U.S.-Vietnam War.

In the early 1980s the Concilium was further streamlined and given a new name, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, with William Foltz, Heinz Professor of African Studies, as the first director. After a major fundraising campaign to fulfill matching obligations, YCIAS regularized its control over and procedures for allocating the eight Ford Foundation faculty chairs to various departments when vacancies occurred. With Title VI and alumni support, YCIAS also built up the M.A. in International Relations and was a founding member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs. Title VI also provided pivotal support for building council programs, and library and language resources, in African, Latin American, East Asian, and Russian and East European Studies. Council-based outreach programs also began to professionalize programs and staff, establishing a tradition of robust summer institutes for teachers. In 1989, the Fox International Fellowship began as a graduate and faculty exchange with Moscow State University.

In the early 1990s, under the directorship of Gaddis Smith, the Larned Professor of History, YCIAS launched the South Asian Studies Committee, several research initiatives, and a new international, interdisciplinary undergraduate major in International Studies. In 1994 the Fox Fellowship expanded to include graduate students to and from Yale and Cambridge University’s Sidney Sussex College. Despite such vibrancy, being spread across campus in four different buildings constrained YCIAS from reaching its full potential. By the end of Professor Smith’s directorship, YCIAS and the University had solved the space problem, and YCIAS moved into Henry R. Luce Hall in 1995, well positioned for dramatic growth of its programs. In 1995 the faculty created the International Affairs Council, comparable to the area studies councils, to provide interdisciplinary faculty oversight of the largest degree programs at YCIAS—the M.A. in International Relations and the International Studies undergraduate major—and begin to build a larger research and faculty-student community of interest focused on cross-cutting global and international themes and issues. Related research initiatives—International Security Studies and United Nations Studies—were incubated at YCIAS and spun off. With the growing presence in Yale College, the YCIAS director’s appointment was shifted to the president at the recommendation of the provost; in turn, the faculty chairs of the constituent councils were appointed by the provost at the recommendation of the director.

Beginning in 1996, under the leadership of Gustav Ranis, Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics, YCIAS programs grew and deepened. They received strong support from Yale’s president, Richard Levin, who had made the internationalization of Yale’s research and curricula a top University priority. The international and area studies councils and their degree programs were revitalized, in part, by taking up the challenge of addressing problems comparatively across world regions. A new interdisciplinary undergraduate major in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration began, supported by American Studies and the International Affairs Council. YCIAS motivated and channeled faculty interest by enabling a variety of special interdisciplinary research programs and initiatives to address a range of emerging issues of global, international, and national scope including, for example, Crossing Borders, Globalization and Self-Determination, International Political Economy, European Union, Central Asia, Hellenic Studies, and the Center for the Study of Globalization.

The creation of the University Center for Language Studies (CLS) in 1998 provided YCIAS a strong partner. Its pedagogic support made it possible for YCIAS to directly offer languages—including Hindi, Tamil, modern Greek, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Zulu, Swahili, and Yorùbá—and oversee language faculty through the councils. With Title VI and other resources, YCIAS and several councils partnered with CLS to launch Directed Independent Language Studies to enable students to learn critical languages not normally taught at Yale. The Fox Fellowship also expanded to include five new partners: Free University of Berlin, Fudan University in Shanghai, Institut d’études de Politiques de Paris, El Colegio de México, and Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. Overall resources for YCIAS tripled in six years with yeoman fundraising efforts. Beyond faculty research, teaching programs, and publications, visiting scholar numbers grew from four to sixty per year, and student grants and fellowships for overseas research and study also expanded, especially for undergraduates. This growth spurt culminated in securing three additional YCIAS Interdisciplinary International Professorships.

In July 2004, Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Chair of the department, succeeded Professor Ranis. He has challenged the faculty to build the research and teaching enterprises around three broad sets of issues: Identity, Security, and Conflict; Democracy Past, Present, and Future; and Justice and Distribution at Local, National, Regional, and Global Levels. In 2005, three new universities joined the Fox International Fellowship—University of Cape Town, Bogazici University in Istanbul, and Tel Aviv University—bringing Yale and eleven elite institutions into a robust graduate student exchange. Beyond the core interdisciplinary research and teaching missions of the councils and research programs, YCIAS began to support policy-focused efforts, including the launch of a new cluster of policy courses to deepen the M.A. in International Relations. Six new graduate certificates were launched to enable students to tap the expertise of the YCIAS councils to ensure a solid international foundation in their specialized degrees from across the University. In recognition of YCIAS’s University-wide role, the director’s term was expanded to five years in parallel to deans of the colleges and schools at Yale, and the first YCIAS Bulletin was added to the University’s official series.

In April 2006, YCIAS was renamed the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. With the naming, the University reaffirmed its commitment to strengthen and increase the senior faculty to sustain and continue building strength in international and area studies.

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