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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 Center for Religion and American Life

250 Church, 432.4040, iasry@yale.edu, www.yale.edu/iasry/

Administrative Director
 Kenneth P. Minkema

The Center for Religion and American Life is a nonsectarian, nondenominational initiative that encourages inquiry into the role that religion has played in the history of the United States. The Center provides nonresidential fellowships for scholars working on any aspect of American religion from before European settlement to the present. Annually, the Center supports non-Yale scholars from a variety of disciplines with dissertation, research, postdoctoral, and advanced fellowships. The Center also awards two Yale dissertation fellowships to students who are in the writing stage of their dissertation, as well as five Yale summer fellowships to help students make significant progress in researching their doctoral topic.

Besides encouraging the creation of a new and significant body of literature on American religion, the Center sponsors opportunities for constructive dialogue. The Center holds two conferences each year. First is the Northeast Regional Faculty Conference in Religion and American Life, which meets the weekend after Thanksgiving and features scholars of American religion who meet to discuss teaching issues and recent books in the field. Second is the Spring Fellows Conference, held each May, which features presentations by our fellows along with lively exchanges of ideas. In addition, the Center sponsors a luncheon seminar series that brings in scholars from across the country to present their latest work.

Contingent upon funding, the Center for Religion and American Life will be awarding nonresidential fellowships to dissertation, postdoctoral, and established scholars of all ranks. Candidates from varied disciplines are encouraged to apply, so long as their research interests include religion in American society, past and present, as a key component or variable.  

Institution for Social and Policy Studies

77 Prospect, 432.3234

Director
Donald P. Green

Executive Committee
Stephanie Spangler (ex officio), Jeffrey Alexander, Andrew Barron, Alvin Klevorick, David G. Pearce, Peter Salovey, Ian Shapiro

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 Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, Seyla Benhabib, 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 grand strategy, international history, and security studies, with particular reference to diplomatic and military history. Its goals are to fill the critical national need for trained leaders; to discover flexible and fruitful ways to recognize, define, and analyze security issues; and to provide independent critiques of policy-thinking and policy-making on these issues. United Nations Studies at Yale (UNSY), directed by Bruce Russett, exists under the umbrella of ISS. UNSY is a policy-relevant think-tank on key issues concerning the future of the United Nations. Neither ISS nor UNSY are degree-granting programs: they facilitate the work and welcome the participation of students from all academic departments and the professional schools.

ISS offers research grants and internship support for Yale graduate and undergraduate students. Like UNSY, it sponsors conferences, lectures, seminars, and workshops. Current projects at UNSY include a collaborative study with the World Bank on The Political Economy of Civil Wars; the Yale-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 three-volume edition of Dr. Boutros-Ghali’s public papers.

The focus of ISS for the next five years will be on its Grand Strategy Project. This project seeks to revive the study and practice of grand strategy by devising methods to teach grand strategy at the graduate and undergraduate levels and by fostering a network of individuals and institutions trained to think about and implement 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 future leaders is the best long-term investment ISS can make in the future.

ISS and UNSY’s Annual Report is available on request, as is ISS’s Grand Strategy Project Review. Inquiries should be directed to International Security Studies, Yale University, PO Box 208353, New Haven, CT 06520-8353. Further information on ISS can also be found at http://www.yale.edu/iss; on UNSY at http://www.yale.edu/unsy.  

Yale Center for International and Area Studies

Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse, 432.3410

Director
Gustav Ranis

The Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) is Yale University’s principal agency for encouraging and coordinating teaching and research on international affairs, societies, and cultures around the world. YCIAS seeks to make understanding the world outside the borders of the United States, and America’s role in the world, an integral part of the liberal education and professional training at Yale University.

YCIAS includes twenty research and educational affiliates, specializing in interdisciplinary and problem-oriented, comparative studies of different world regions. They include: African Studies Council; Canadian Studies Committee; East Asian Studies Council; European Studies Council; International Affairs Council; Latin American and Iberian Studies Council; Middle East Studies Council; South Asian Studies Council; Southeast Asia Studies Council; Center for Cities and Globalization; Center for the Study of Globalization; European Union Studies Program; Fox International Fellowships Program; Genocide Studies Program; Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition; Genocide Studies Program; Georg Walter Leitner Program in International Political Economy; Global Migration Program; Hellenic Studies Program; and Program in Agrarian Studies.

It also administers six undergraduate majors (African Studies; East Asian Studies; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration; International Studies; Latin American Studies; and Russian and East European Studies), four graduate degree programs (African Studies; East Asian Studies; International Relations; and Russian and East European Studies), and several joint-degree programs with the schools of Law, Management, Forestry & Environmental Studies, and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.

The Center also provides opportunities for scholarly research and intellectual innovation; awards more than two hundred fellowships and grants each year; encourages faculty/student interchange; sponsors more than five hundred lectures, conferences, workshops, seminars, and films each year (most of which are free and open to the public); produces a range of working papers and other academic publications; and contributes to library collections (exclusive of Europe) comprising 1.4 million volumes in the languages of various areas. Through Programs in International Educational Resources (PIER), it brings international education and training to educators, students K-12, the media, businesses, and the community at large.

Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

Betts House, 393 Prospect Street, 432.1900, globalization@yale.edu, www.yaleglobal.yale.edu

Director
 Ernesto Zedillo

The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization (YCSG) is devoted to examining the impact of our increasingly integrated world on individuals, communities, and nations. The Center’s purpose is to support the creation and dissemination of ideas for seizing the opportunities and overcoming the challenges presented by globalization. It is focused on producing practical policies to enable the world’s poorest and weakest citizens to share in the benefits brought by globalization. YCSG also explores solutions to problems that, even if they do not result directly from integration, are global in nature and can therefore be effectively addressed only through international cooperation. The Center draws on the rich intellectual resources of the Yale community, scholars from other universities, and experts from around the world.

On campus, the Center supports teaching and research on the many facets of globalization, while helping to enrich debate through workshops, conferences, and public programs. Faculty as well as graduate and undergraduate students receive support for research projects and activities that enhance the study of globalization, have policy implications, or further the following goals: (1) to produce and disseminate ideas that will help nations take advantage of globalization’s opportunities and overcome its challenges, or (2) to explore solutions to problems that, even if they do not result directly from international integration, are global in nature and can therefore be effectively addressed only through international cooperation.

The Center also furthers its mission through collaboration with a variety of institutions across the globe. Projects resulting from these collaborations provide the means by which YCSG can contribute toward influencing the attitudes and actions of policy makers, academics, and institutions. Natural opportunities exist to present the results of this work at Yale through seminars, colloquia, and public lectures. These collaborations include the following projects:

International Task Force on Trade and Finance for the Millennium Development Project

International Task Force on Global Public Goods

Commission on the Private Sector and Development

International Migration

In order to multiply the effects of the internal and external dimensions of the Center’s strategy, YCSG has developed a global media instrument. YaleGlobal Online magazine (www.yaleglobal.yale.edu) explores the growing interconnectedness of the world and aims to analyze and promote debate on all aspects of globalization. The magazine posts three original articles per week, re-publishes and archives articles from around the globe, and offers video recordings of special events at Yale.

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