A Cuban-American from Brooklyn, New York, Colum O’Connor is a Yale College Class of 2018 Latin American Studies graduate. A talented drummer and musician with a passion for educational equity, O’Connor is now a second-grade teacher...
On December 14, 2019, Luce Hall was filled with scholars from around the world who gathered to discuss the life, work, and legacy of Brazilian poet, critic, professor and translator Haroldode Campos (1929-2003). The day-long conference “Poetry,...
Written by Alison Kibbe, Teaching Fellow for the 2020 History and Culture of Cuba course, a doctoral student in African-American Studies & American Studies, and a CLAIS graduate affiliate.
For the past five years, one of the cornerstones of the...
Reinaldo Funes-Monzote, Professor of History at the University of Havana, has spent the past five years at Yale as the Henry Hart Rice Family Foundation Visiting Professor at the MacMillan Center’s Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies. His...
The five faculty members who have been awarded this year’s Yale College Undergraduate Teaching Prizes won’t be celebrated in person, but the high praise their students heaped on them demonstrates the indelible mark they make in the classroom.
The...
On April 30, several of the MacMillan Center’s councils and the Yale Law School collaborated on a webinar titled “Democracy and Rise of Authoritarianism in COVID-19 World” that aimed to shine a light on the anti-democratic processes that are...
