The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale has presented its Director's Award to five Yale faculty.
They are: Alison Galvani, assistant professor of epidemiology and public health; Matthew Giancarlo, associate professor of English; Dean Karlan, assistant professor of economics; Francesca Trivellato, assistant professor of history; and Elliott Visconsi, assistant professor of English.
Established in 2005, The MacMillan Center Director's Awards are presented to non-tenured Yale faculty who receive certain distinguished individual grants, prizes or fellowships for international research. In addition to recognizing these junior faculty members' accomplishments, the Director's Awards are intended to enable them to enhance their future research. Recipients are appointed as research fellows at The MacMillan Center and receive research funds of $5,000 per year for two years.
To be eligible, junior faculty members must have received one of the following awards: Carnegie Scholar; Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship; Wenner-Gren Individual Research Grant; National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award; Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship; Bradley Foundation Fellowship; Smith Richardson Junior Faculty Fellowship; Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship; Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship; Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship; and National Humanities Center Fellowship.
Brief descriptions of the winning junior faculty and their research follow:
Galvani, the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, focuses her research on integrating epidemiology and economics in order to generate predictions that could not be made by either discipline alone. This interdisciplinary approach has widespread potential for answering evolutionary questions, explaining empirical observations and informing public health policy. Galvani has applied this approach to the study of HIV, influenza, SARS and helminth parasites.
Giancarlo received the Walter Hines Page Fellowship at the National Humanities Center for the 2004-2005 academic year. His book "Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England," forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, examines the interconnection between the development of parliamentary practices and institutions, and the growth of English poetry in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
Karlan, who received a five-year CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation, is using field experiments to learn what social policies do and do not work and why. Most of his work is in developing countries and examines microfinance programs for the poor. Other research covers fundraising, voting, education and behavioral economics.
Trivellato accepted fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study and the ACLS to work on a new book-length project tentatively titled "Language, Images and Practices of Cosmopolitanism in European Commercial Society, 1500-1800." This study explores the ways in which economic exchanges favored or did not favor relations between individuals and groups of different religious and ethnic backgrounds in early modern Europe.
Visconsi was awarded an ACLS Fellowship for the calendar year 2005. A specialist in the literature, law and political thought of early modern England and Europe, Visconsi is focusing his current research on the "secularization thesis" and the early modern cultural history of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state. This project is focused chiefly on the cultural struggles over the proper relations between law and religion.
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