The Yale University Scholars at Risk Committee advised the university leadership on how Yale can best provide a temporary professional home and a welcoming community to scholars, practitioners, and artists facing persecution or unsafe conditions in their previous location.
The committee has completed its work, and Yale has expanded efforts to protect scholars at risk.
Committee Members
Steven Wilkinson (Chair)
Nilekani Professor of Political Science, Vice Provost for Global Strategy, Director of the MacMillan Center, and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Nathaniel Camp
(Committee Staff)
Associate Director for Partnership Development, Office of International Affairs
Emily Erikson
Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, School of Management
Donald Filer
Associate Vice President for Global Strategy
Erik Harms
Professor of Anthropology & Southeast Asia Studies; Director of Graduate Studies; Chair, Council on Southeast Asian Studies
Kaveh Khoshnood
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), Yale School of Public Health; Track Director, Critical Topics, Executive MPH
Heidi McAnnally-Linz
Deputy Director, MacMillan Center
Christine Ngaruiya
Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine (Emergency Medicine); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Catherine Panter-Brick
Bruce A. and Davi-Ellen Chabner Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs and Professor of Public Health
Jim Silk
Binger Clinical Professor of Human Rights; Director, Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic; and Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights