Executive Committee

The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale is the University's focal point for encouraging and coordinating teaching and research on international affairs, societies, and cultures around the world. It draws its strength by tapping the interests and combining the intellectual resources of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and of the professional schools. The Center seeks to make understanding the world outside the borders of the United States, and the role of the United States in the world, an integral part of liberal education and professional training at the University. The Center provides eight undergraduate majors, including six focused on world regions: African, East Asian, Middle East, Latin American, Russian and East European Studies, and South Asian Studies. Two others are focused globally, one on International Studies and the other on Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. At the graduate level, the Center provides four master's degree programs. Three are regionally focused on African, East Asian, and European and Russian Studies and one is globally focused on International Relations. The Center also sponsors graduate certificates of concentration through its Councils on African, European, International, Latin American and Iberian, and Middle East Studies. Language training is an integral component of each of the degree and certificate programs. In total, 250-300 students are enrolled in these degree programs in any given year.

Beyond the twelve degree programs and other curricular contributions, the Center has numerous interdisciplinary faculty councils, centers, committees and programs. These provide opportunities for scholarly research and intellectual innovation and encourage faculty and student interchange for undergraduates as well as graduate and professional students. The home of one of the oldest interdisciplinary programs in International Relations, the Center is a founding member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), along with Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Georgetown and other institutions.

The Center's extracurricular programs deepen and extend this research-teaching nexus of faculty and students at Yale, with over 500 lectures, conferences, workshops, roundtables, symposia and film and art events each year. Virtually all of these are open to the community at large. Its flagship lectures, the Coca-Cola World Fund Lecture and the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in International Studies, bring a number of prominent scholars and political figures to the Yale campus. The Center reaches a large academic and public audience with a variety of publications including journals, monographs, working papers and books. Its Program in International Educational Resources (PIER) reaches out to the larger public, especially targeting educators at the primary and secondary (K-12) as well as college levels, with professional and curricular development training programs and services, in addition to teaching materials and electronic resources.

The number of international faculty visitors to the Center has also increased dramatically over the past years. In cooperation with several special externally-funded programs facilitating exchanges, the Center has brought more than 100 scholars each year from a range of disciplines and numerous countries to join the Yale community for periods ranging from six weeks to a full academic year.

An enduring commitment of the Center is to enable students to spend time abroad to undertake research and other academically-oriented international and area studies-related activities. In the 2006-2007, funds totaling just over $3.2 million was awarded to nearly 500 Yale students for overseas travel to pursue international and area studies research activities.

The Fox International Fellowship Program is a two-way exchange between Yale and eleven universities - the Moscow State University, the Free University of Berlin, Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University, Tokyo University, Fudan University, Institut d'études de Politiques de Paris, El Colegio de Mexico, Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Cape Town, Bogazici University, and Tel Aviv University. The fellowship is designed to promote the development of individual relationships and understanding among future leaders on which world peace and understanding depend. The intention is for the Fox International Fellowship Program to expand in the coming years to achieve worldwide status and coverage by adding other equally distinguished universities.

Additionally, the Center is increasing its capacity to provide fellowships for graduate and professional students to come from various parts of the world to pursue a degree at Yale. The Center has provided matching funds to federal grants such as the Muskie Fellowships that bring students from the former Soviet Union to pursue graduate and professional degrees at Yale. Through its success in federal grant programs, the Center is able to support eight to twelve U.S. citizens enrolled in advanced degree programs with intensive language study through the Higher Education Act's Title VI, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships. Other foundation sources provide similar, if smaller, portions of fellowship support targeted at graduate and professional students pursuing internationally-oriented degrees or joint degrees between International Relations and one of the professional schools.

The Center is not a school and does not make its own faculty appointments, yet it works with roughly 250 faculty across the University in any given year and supports fifteen ladder faculty positions, as well as more than fifty visiting scholar appointments in different arts and sciences fields. In the last three years, the Center has also appointed ten on-going language and adjunct faculty on multi-year appointments in specific languages and international fields. Additionally, six international, interdisciplinary professorships were created in 2002 by the University at the Center. The new professorships are unique in that faculty from throughout the University are consulted to identify top scholars who can hold cutting-edge joint professorship appointments between arts and science departments and/or professional schools and departments. To date, two have been endowed -- the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of International Studies and the Leitner Professor of Law, Politics, and International Studies.

The Center's efforts to inspire and support cross-disciplinary conversation and debate have been aided significantly by its venue, Henry R. Luce Hall. Made possible by an extraordinary gift from the Luce Foundation, Luce Hall provides the Center with 40,000 square feet of elegant, yet practical, class and seminar space, an auditorium and common room and offices for staff, faculty and visiting scholars from the U.S. and around the world.

The MacMillan Center Executive Committee
2008-2009

Ian Shapiro, Chair; Henry R. Luce Director, The MacMillan Center, Sterling Professor of Political Science

Nancy L. Ruther, Secretary; Associate Director, The MacMillan Center

Michael Cappello, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology & Public Health

Judith Chevalier, William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Finance

Michael Donoghue, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology; Professor of Geology and Geophysics

Laura Engelstein, Henry S. McNeil Professor of Russian History, Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures

Philip Gorski, Professor of Sociology

Michael Graetz, Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law

Dan Junior, Associate Director, The MacMillan Center

Richard Kane, Associate Director, The MacMillan Center

William Kelly, Professor of Anthropology; Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies

Charles Long, Deputy Provost

Benjamin Polak, Professor of Economics, School of Management

Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Damon Wells Professor of International Politics

Susan Stokes, Professor of Political Science

Peter Swenson, Charlotte Marion Saden Professor of Political Science

Christopher Udry, Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics