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Seven faculty members named Guggenheim Fellows

Seven Yale faculty members have received 2024 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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Yale Africa-China Symposium in Maputo Highlights Cultural Dynamics, Innovative Research Methods

On March 14-15, 2024, the Council on African Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies convened the “Yale Africa-China Symposium: Cultural Dimensions” at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique.

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David W. Blight

In DeVane Lectures, historian to examine the legacy of slavery and the Civil War

In a semester-long lecture series open to the public, Yale’s David W. Blight will explore the history of slavery and its continued effects.    
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Jonny Steinberg Wins 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for 'Winnie & Nelson: A Portrait of a Marriage'

The MacMillan Center is pleased to announce that Jonny Steinberg has won the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography for Winnie &...

Yale Celebrates the Influential Career of Professor James C. Scott with Screening and Q&A

On Thursday, March 28, the Program in Agrarian Studies presented a special screening of “In A Field All His Own: The Life and Career of James C. Scott”, a documentary produced by Todd Holmes ’13 Ph.D., historian with the Oral History Center at UC...

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Priyamvada Natarajan

Priyamvada Natarajan, Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, is a member of the South Asian Studies Council.
Nature

Massive public-health experiment sends vaccination rates soaring

A. Mushfiq Mobarak is Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics and is the founder and faculty director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) at the MacMillan Center.
Foreign Affairs

In Pakistan, the Military Is Still Running the Show

Sarah Khan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University who researches gender and comparative politics, with a regional specialization in South Asia.
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