The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, commonly known as theMacMillan Center, is a research and educational center for international affairs andarea studies atYale University. It is named afterWhitney MacMillan and his wife Betty.

As of 2021, the Macmillan Center currently offers degrees for both undergraduate and graduate levels.Undergraduate degrees include African Studies, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, Modern Middle East Studies, Russian and East European Studies, and South Asian Studies.Graduate degrees offered at the center include African Studies, East Asian Studies, and European and Russian Studies.^[1]

Similarly, it is possible for graduating students to partake in a joint-degree program, where they can receive amaster's. and an equivalent professional degree from one of four partnered Yale professional schools, with those being theLaw School, theSchool of Management, theSchool of Public Health, and theSchool of the Environment.^[2]

It is also possible for those to pursue agraduate certificate of concentration through the Councils on African, European, Latin American and Iberian, or Middle East Studies in conjunction with graduate-degree programs at theGraduate School of Arts and Sciences or the professional schools.^[3]

The MacMillan Center was created in the 1960s as the Concilium on International and Area Studies and later renamed in the 1980s as the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS).^[4] In April 2006, YCIAS was renamed as The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.^[5][6]

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition was founded in November 1998 byDavid Brion Davis and funded byRichard Gilder andLewis Lehrman, founders of theGilder Lehrman Institute of American History.^[7] Davis served as director till June 2004,^[8] when historianDavid. W. Blight,Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University, succeeded him as current director as of 2021.^[9]

The center's mission is to promote the study of all aspects ofslavery and its legacy, with focus on thechattel slave system and its destruction. The center seeks to foster an improved understanding of the role of slavery,slave resistance, andabolition in theWestern world by promoting interaction and exchange between scholars, teachers, and public historians through publications, educational outreach, and other programs and events.^[10] In addition, the center offers postdoctoral and faculty fellowships and summer graduate research fellowships, and also sponsors theFrederick Douglass Book prize, an award for most outstanding non-fiction book in English on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition for the year it is given.^[11][12]

The Center for Historical Enquiry & the Social Sciences provides insight on the interplay between history and the present, focusing on large-scale social transformations and solutions to difficult social crises and problems. The center serves as a bridge between the humanities and social sciences in order to "better understand the world we live in."^[13]

The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions serves as an interdisciplinary pilot program with the intention of developing the study of the theory and practice of representative government in the Anglo-American tradition. It is supported by the Thomas W. Smith fund and the Jack Miller Center's Commercial Republic Initiative, sponsored by theJohn Templeton Foundation.^[14]

The following alumni received either a B.A., M.A. or a Ph.D. in international relations. It is to note that the degree has been phased out and replaced by the master's degree in global affairs in 2013, which is also now provided by the Jackson Institute.^[15]

• Eric Alterman (MA) – politicalblogger, commentator onMSNBC, Professor of English atBrooklyn College^[16]
• A. Doak Barnett (MA '47) – scholar ofChinese foreign relations, Professor atColumbia University and fellow at theBrookings Institution^[17]
• Janet Beer (MA '95) – vice-chancellor ofOxford Brookes University^[18]
• Kenneth Brown (MA '60) – former U.S. ambassador toRepublic of Congo,Côte d'Ivoire, andGhana; President of theAssociation for Diplomatic Studies and Training at theForeign Service Institute^[19]
• Randy Charles Epping (MA) – author a nd economist^[20]
• James H. Fowler (MA '97) –political scientist specializing insocial networks,cooperation,political participation, andgenopolitics; coiner of the termColbert Bump^[21]
• Morton Halperin (PhD '67) – expert on foreign policy and civil liberties; served in the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations and then asDirector of Policy Planning at theState Department^[22]
• Peter Hart (MA) – Canadian historian specializing in Irish history^[23]
• Heyward Isham (BA '47) – American diplomat, negotiator in 1973 Peace Accord withNorth Vietnam^[24]
• Scott Kleeb (MA) – Democraticcandidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, 2008^[25]
• Michael Lind (MA '85) – writer, historian, and Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at theNew America Foundation^[26]
• Barry Naughton (MA '79) – Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at theGraduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at theUniversity of California, San Diego^[27]
• Richard Nolte (MA '47) – American diplomat,Middle East expert^[28]
• Matthew Parris (MA) –Englishjournalist and formerConservativepolitician^[29]
• Thomas Palley (MA) –Post-Keynesian economist^[30]
• Michael Rothschild (MA '65) –economist, William Stuart Tod Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at theWoodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs^[31]
• Pedro Moreira Salles (MA) – Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors forUnibanco^[32]
• Marcel Theroux (MA) – British novelist and broadcaster^[33]
• J. Ann Tickner (MA '60) –feminist international relations theorist^[34]
• Sergio Troncoso (MA '92) –short story author^[35]
• William Wohlforth (MA '84) –Daniel Webster Professor of Government atDartmouth College^[36]

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