MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies

[4] In April 2006, YCIAS was renamed as The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

W. Blight, Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University, succeeded him as current director as of 2021.

[9] The center's mission is to promote the study of all aspects of slavery and its legacy, with focus on the chattel slave system and its destruction.

[10] In addition, the center offers postdoctoral and faculty fellowships and summer graduate research fellowships, and also sponsors the Frederick Douglass Book prize, an award for most outstanding non-fiction book in English on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition for the year it is given.

It is supported by the Thomas W. Smith fund and the Jack Miller Center's Commercial Republic Initiative, sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation.