The MacMillan Center Director's Award was established in 2005. The Awards are for non-tenured Yale faculty who receive certain distinguished individual grants, prizes, or fellowships for international research from external foundations and granting agencies. In addition to recognizing these junior faculty members' accomplishments, the Director's Awards are intended to enable them to enhance their future research. Recipients are appointed Research Fellows at the MacMillan Center and receive research funds of $5,000 per year for two years. Junior faculty members who have received one of the following awards are eligible:

Carnegie Scholar
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
Wenner-Gren Individual Research Grant
National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship
Bradley Foundation Fellowship
Smith Richardson Junior Faculty Fellowship
Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship
Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
National Humanities Center Fellowship

Other awards may be eligible.  

Please notify Richard Kane, Associate Director, The MacMillan Center, if you think you are eligible to receive a Director’s Award.

Previous Director’s Award recipients include:

2008
Dean Karlan, Assistant Professor, Economics

2007  
Frank Griffel, Professor, Religious Studies
Kishwar Rizvi, Assistant Professor, History of Art
Jennifer Prah Ruger, Assistant Professor, Public Health, Global Health Division, Yale School of Medicine and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law, Yale Law School

2006
Alison Galvani, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health
Matthew Giancarlo, Associate Professor, English
Dean Karlan, Assistant Professor, Economics
Francesca Trivellato, Assistant Professor, History
Elliott Visconsi, Assistant Professor, English

2005
Michael Auslin, Assistant Professor, History
Gretchen Berland, Assistant Professor, Yale Medical School
Oona Hathaway, Associate Professor, Yale Law School
Nicholas Sambanis, Associate Professor, Political Science
David Skelly, Professor, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Ecology/ Evolutionary Biology