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Cowles Foundation
The Economic Growth Center
Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion
Institution for Social and Policy Studies
International Security Studies
Yale Center for International and Area Studies

The Cowles Foundation

30 Hillhouse, 432.3702

Director
John Geanakoplos

The Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University seeks to foster the development of theoretical, mathematical, and statistical methods of analysis for use in economics and related social sciences. All members of the professional research staff have faculty appointments in the Department of Economics or another social science department at Yale. The foundation sponsors a working paper series and a seminar series. It also maintains a library of materials related to its special areas of research activity.
 

The Economic Growth Center

27 Hillhouse, 432.3610

Director
Christopher Udry

The Economic Growth Center is a research organization within the Yale Department of Economics that was created in 1961 to analyze, both theoretically and empirically, the process of economic growth and the economic relations between low and high income countries. The research program emphasizes the search for regularities in the process of growth and changes in economic structure by means of cross-sectional and intertemporal studies and the analysis of policies that affect that process. An increasing share of the research involves statistical study of the behavior of households and firms as revealed in sample surveys by the application of microeconomic theory. Current projects include research on technology development, choice and transfer, household consumption, investment and demographic behavior, agricultural research and productivity growth, labor markets and the returns to education of women and men, labor markets and migration, income distribution, and international economic relations, including monetary and trade policies. The center's research faculty hold appointments in the Department of Economics and other departments at Yale, and accordingly have teaching as well as research responsibilities.

The center administers, jointly with the Department of Economics, the Yale master's degree training program in International and Development Economics, in which most students have experience as economists in foreign central banks, finance ministries, and public and private development agencies. It presents a regular series of workshops on trade and development and on the microeconomics of labor and population and includes among its publications book-length studies, reprints by staff members, and discussion papers.

The Economic Growth Center Collection, housed in a separate facility at the Social Science Library, is a special collection focused on the statistical, economic, and planning documents of developing countries, including government documents.
 

The Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion

250 Church, 432.4040

Directors
Jon Butler and Harry Stout

The Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale was established through a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. The Institute's mission is to encourage and coordinate the study of religion in American life and history, to increase awareness of the role and importance of religion in the life of this country and world, to address moral and spiritual concerns of leadership in national and international contexts, and to remedy the relative inattention to and ignorance about the role of religion in America's history and contemporary life among policy makers, scholars, and practitioners. It features annual themes or "problems" that focus the selection of fellows, conference topics, and lectures under the institute's direction. The Institute's first theme, implemented in academic year 1999-2000, addressed the problem of American Religion, Race, and Ethnicity with a special focus on African American Religion. For the 2000-2001 academic year, the Institute extended the theme of Religion, Race, and Ethnicity, covering a wide range of racial and ethnic groups. The Institute will focus on American Religion and the Family for the 2001-2002 academic year.

The idea behind this initiative is to create teams of scholars, both inside Yale and outside, who will share insights even as they pursue individual research projects. Each year, three advanced resident scholars from outside of Yale will be awarded fellowships to pursue their individual research and writing in a collegial environment of seminars, symposia, lectures, and, not least, scholarly presentations. In these settings, fellows will interact with up to eight nonresidential graduate and postdoctoral fellows from outside of Yale, as well as with faculty, staff, students, and academic centers and departments at Yale. The Institute also offers Yale Graduate summer and academic year fellowships.
 

Institution for Social and Policy Studies

77 Prospect, 432.3234

Director
Donald P. Green

Executive Committee
Roger Gould, John Roemer, Peter Salovey, Stephanie Spangler

The Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) facilitates interdisciplinary inquiry in the social sciences and research on important public policy subjects. Recognizing that important social problems cannot be studied adequately by a single discipline, the Yale Corporation established the Institution for Social and Policy Studies in 1968 in order to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration within the University. Faculty and students from many departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and from Yale's graduate and professional schools are involved in a variety of activities. These include numerous interdisciplinary faculty seminars, research publications, postdoctoral programs, and the undergraduate major in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. Through these activities, ISPS seeks to shape public policies of local, national, and international significance.

Among the major programs at ISPS are: the Agrarian Studies Program, James Scott, director; the Scholars in Health Policy Program, Theodore Marmor, director; the Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, Geoffrey Garrett, director; and the Yale University Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project, Robert Levine and Margaret Farley, directors.

For more information, refer to the ISPS Bulletin.
 

International Security Studies

31 Hillhouse, 432.6242

Director
Paul Kennedy

International Security Studies (ISS) supports interdisciplinary research and teaching in international history and security, with particular emphasis on diplomatic and military history. Its goals are to fill critical national needs; to train leaders to take responsibility for security concerns; to discover flexible and fruitful ways to recognize, define, and analyze security issues; and to conduct independent critiques of policy thinking and policy making on these matters. United Nations Studies at Yale (UNSY) exists under the umbrella of ISS and is directed by Bruce Russett. UNSY is a policy think tank on key issues concerning the future of the United Nations. Neither ISS nor UNSY is a degree-granting program; rather, they facilitate the work and welcome the participation of students from all academic departments and the professional schools.

ISS offers research grants and postdoctoral fellowships in an international competition. Like UNSY, it sponsors conferences, lecture series, seminars, and workshops. Current projects at UNSY include the United Nations Oral History Project, which has collected over ninety interviews with United Nations personnel, and The Public Papers of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, which is producing a four-volume edition of Dr. Boutros-Ghali's papers. ISS's Pivotal States Study Group wound up work with the publication of Robert Chase, Emily Hill, and Paul Kennedy, eds., The Pivotal States: A New Framework for U.S. Policy in the Developing World (W. W. Norton, 1999).

ISS's current endeavors include its Redefining Security Project, which examines how foundations and academic institutions have adjusted definitions of security since the early 1980s. The focus of ISS for the next five years, however, will be on its Grand Strategy Project. This Project seeks to revive the study and practice of grand strategy at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and to foster a network of individuals and institutions trained to think about grand strategies in imaginative and effective ways. The Project, launched in January 2000, combines historical depth and analytical range with the belief that the preparation of leaders is the best long-term investment ISS can make in the future.

Inquiries should be directed to International Security Studies, Yale University, PO Box 208353, New Haven CT 06520-8353. Further information on ISS can be found at http://www.yale.edu/iss/.
 

Yale Center for International and Area Studies

Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse, 432.3410

Director
Gustav Ranis

The Center for International and Area Studies is Yale's institutional focus for international and area studies. Although not an academic department or a separate school, the center's interdisciplinary teaching, research, and outreach programs bring together faculty and students from all parts of the University-the humanities, social sciences, professional schools, and the natural sciences.

The center supports and encourages programs in international affairs, world regional studies, and comparative interdisciplinary research. Regional studies programs include African Studies, Canadian Studies, East Asian Studies (focusing on China and Japan), Latin American Studies, Middle East Studies, Russian and East European Studies (supporting the interdisciplinary study of Russia, the post-Soviet successor states, as well as East Central and Southeastern Europe), South Asian Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, and West European Studies. Comparative programs include the Academic Council on the United Nations System, Agrarian Studies, Genocide Studies, Global Migration, International Affairs, International Security Studies, and United Nations Studies.

Additionally, the center's individual councils, committees, and programs offer four graduate degree programs (African Studies, East Asian Studies, International Relations, and Russian and East European Studies), five undergraduate majors (Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Studies; East Asian Studies; International Studies; Latin American Studies; and Russian and East European Studies), and several joint-degree programs (with the schools of Law, Management, and Forestry & Environmental Studies, and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health).

The Yale Center for International and Area Studies plays many roles at Yale: mobilizing multidisciplinary resources for the study and teaching of international and area studies within the formal curriculum; sponsoring over 150 lectures, conferences, workshops, seminars, and films annually covering a variety of topics and interests; facilitating faculty interaction and exchange of ideas; financing student and faculty research on topics relating to all parts of the world and in all disciplines; and supporting and contributing resources to Yale library collections in international and area studies.

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