The Hub’s two primary academic programs are the Undergraduate Certificate in Ethnography, offered in partnership with the Department of Anthropology, and the Graduate Fellowship in Ethnography, which provides training and mentorship for advanced students. These programs are supported by a range of courses and workshops that expand ethnographic training across Yale. In spring 2026, co-directors Ana Ramos-Zayas and Eda Pepi will co-teach a flagship methods course, Multi-Sited Ethnography, which foregrounds the interdisciplinary, transnational, and global reach of ethnographic inquiry. The course situates recent epistemic ‘turns’ in anthropology and related fields in relation to the geopolitical imperatives of empire—past and present—and their influence on research agendas, funding priorities, and methodological innovation.
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Graduate Student Brown Bag
The Yale Ethnography Hub invites graduate students to join us for an intimate brown bag lunch series featuring distinguished scholars from our “Global Realignments, Ethnographically” symposium. These exclusive sessions offer graduate students the opportunity to engage directly with leading voices in ethnographic research, discuss their work in depth, and explore critical questions about global realignments across borders, whiteness, and sovereignties.
Each lunch will be held at William Harkness Hall, Room 309, from 12-1PM before the corresponding symposium. This is a unique chance to connect with scholars whose research is shaping conversations in African and African American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, and Latin American and Latino Studies.
Space is limited, so please register for each session you’d like to attend.
Undergraduate Ethnography Certificate
In our globalized world, cross-cultural understanding has become increasingly important – making ethnographic skills useful for undergraduate students interested in industry and government as well as those planning to pursue academic careers. Ethnographic proficiency promotes critical thinking by requiring students to critically analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative information and data from a variety of sources. During a time of newly intensifying misinformation, this has become an essential skill. Ethnography often involves fieldwork and interacting with people in their communities, providing students with valuable real-world experience that can be applied in many different settings.
Course Offerings
Yale’s ethnography courses provide rigorous training in qualitative research methods and cultural analysis. Students engage with diverse communities through systematic fieldwork, developing critical skills in observation, interviewing, and interpretive analysis essential for understanding human societies.
Graduate Student Fellowship
The Ethnography Hub Graduate Student Fellowship brings in several graduate students a year to actively participate in the activities of the Hub and provides modest support for ethnographic fieldwork that graduate student fellows undertake at the end of their fellowship year. As a strong faculty-graduate student mentoring agenda is a cornerstone of our ethnographic collaborative, we co-organize workshops and brown bags to provide guidance in all stages of ethnographic research.