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The Yale Council on African Studies
The Council on African Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for
International and Area Studies at Yale supports and coordinates the study
of Africa within Yale University. African studies at Yale began in the
late 18th century with Divinity School study of African languages. Yale
was one of the first universities to incorporate African studies into
its mainstream curriculum prior to World War II. The primary stimulus
came from two distinguished scholars, Harry R. Rudin (History) and Ralph
Linton (Anthropology and Sociology).
After the war, Professor Leonard Doob (Psychology) was a moving force in the establishment of the Council on African Studies at Yale. Eminent scholars who were recruited in the 1950s and 1960s included John Middleton, M.G. Smith, Leonard Thompson and David Apter. CAS continues to contribute to African Studies internationally through the research and teaching of Yale faculty members and that of Yale African studies alumni and through the development of one of the world’s leading African Studies libraries.
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