Yale Bulletin and Calendar

May 11, 2007|Volume 35, Number 28|Two-Week Issue

MacMillan Center honors the work
of three Yale faculty members

The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale has announced the winners of its Director's Award and Gustav Ranis International Book Prize.

Director's Award

The center's Director's Award has been presented to Kishwar Rizvi, assistant professor of the history of art, and Jennifer Prah Ruger, assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the School of Medicine and assistant professor (adjunct) at the Law School.

Established in 2005, the Director's Awards provide research funds to junior faculty who have received certain distinguished individual grants, prizes or fellowships for international research (for a list of those honors, see www.yale.edu/macmillan/directors_awards.htm). Recipients are appointed as research fellows at the MacMillan Center and receive funds of $5,000 per year for two years.

Rizvi was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Grant for her research project "Representing Kingship in Safavid Iran: Art and architectural culture during the reign of 'Abbas I.'" She will use the Director's Award to fund architectural fieldwork in Iran that will complement her work on analyses of a deluxe illustrated manuscript of the 1605 Shahnama (Book of Kings), as well as collections in Vienna, London, Dublin and Paris.

Ruger holds a Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health and received the Labelle Lectureship in Health Services Research. Her research interests include health economics and ethics on the political economy of health, focusing on vulnerable and impoverished populations at the national and global level. She will use the Director's Award to further her research in these areas and on health care disparities across the globe.

Ranis Prize

Frank Snowden, professor of history and the history of medicine, has been awarded the Gustav Ranis International Book Prize for his work "The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962" (Yale University Press, 2006).

Established in 2005, the annual Ranis Prize honors the best book on an international topic by a member of the Yale ladder faculty. It is named for Gustav Ranis, the Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics, who is the former Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center. Award recipients receive a research appointment at the MacMillan Center, and a $10,000 research award over two years.

Ian Shapiro, the Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center, says: "Elegantly written and grounded in rigorous original research, Professor Snowden's book traces the complex political and cultural processes by which Italy developed an anti-malaria campaign that became a model for the rest of the world."

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