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Professor Stephanie Newell is featured in The Common Room,  a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. She talks about...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
New research conducted by Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, a professor of economics and director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale, and an international group of...
The Council on African Studies at the MacMillan Center is hosting its third annual Yale Africa Film Festival (YAFF) on February 19. The films that have been selected to be...
Sigman aboard the Atlantic Sun, a transatlantic cargo ship she took from Halifax to Liverpool. After a quick ride on Metro-North, Sigman took the scenic Adirondack train from New York to Montreal, and then enjoyed a stunning 2-day journey on The Ocean train to get from Montreal to Halifax.
Though Fox International Fellows hail from different countries, represent a diversity of backgrounds, and embark on the Fellowship with distinct projects and goals, we all...
Klara Wojtkowska
Klara Wojtkowska, a graduate of the African Studies M.A. program (2013), has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant to Zimbabwe. In the following interview in the Fulbrighter...
Professor Robert Harms
Robert Harms, the Henry J. Heinz Professor of History & African Studies, has been awarded the Gustav Ranis International Book Prize for best book, Land of Tears: The...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Niccoló F. Meriggi, an economist at the International Growth Center in Sierra Leone, and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (@mushfiq_econ), a professor of economics at Yale University ...