Alumni

Nicholas Sambanis joins Yale as the Kalsi Family Professor of Political Science. He previously taught at Penn (2016-2023) and Yale (2001-2016), and he worked at the World Bank Development Economics Research Group (1999-2001). Sambanis is an expert on civil wars, ethnic conflict, and the politics of migration. His writing combines theories and methods from the fields of international relations, comparative politics, and political psychology to study processes of identity formation and change and the ways that identity politics shape conflict outcomes.

As a close aide to Michel Barnier, Stefaan De Rynck (2006 Yale World Fellow) had a front row seat in the Brexit negotiations. In his book “Inside the Deal: How the EU Got Brexit Done”, De Rynck tells the EU’s side of the story and seeks to dispel some of the myths and spin that have become indelibly linked to the Brexit process. The conversation will be moderated by Jackson School Senior Lecturer Marnix Amand.

Co-sponsored by the Yale World Fellows Program and the MacMillan Center Council on European Studies.

How were state formation and early modern politics shaped by the state’s proclaimed obligation to domestic welfare? Drawing on a wide range of historical scholarship and primary sources, this book demonstrates that a public interest-based discourse of state legitimation was common to early modern England, Japan, and China. This normative platform served as a shared basis on which state and society could negotiate and collaborate over how to attain good governance through providing public goods such as famine relief and infrastructural facilities.

One of the most underreported human catastrophes of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is the ongoing cultural and existential erasure of the country’s Nadazov Greek population, which, prior to the war, constituted the third-largest ethnic group (after Ukrainians and Russians) in the bitterly contested Donetsk region. Most of these Greeks were concentrated in and around the city of Mariupol, which they founded after Catherine the Great had resettled them from their ancient homeland of Crimea in 1778.

Join a YCBA student guide for a tour of In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art.

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While the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) is closed for building conservation, more than fifty major collection works, spanning four centuries of British landscape and portraiture traditions, are on view at the Yale University Art Gallery. Join our student guides to learn more about the exhibition, as well as architecture, collection, and history of the YCBA.