The Yale Department of Anthropology
Yale University’s Department of Anthropology is home to over thirty faculty, affiliates from many other corners of the University, and scores of graduate students. Research and teaching interests span the globe, many millions of years of prehistory and history, and the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Ph.D. graduates go on to teach in universities around the world and to pursue research in a wide variety of academic and non-academic settings. Undergraduates are drawn to the study of humanity, both in the broadest terms and in the specific social, cultural, historical, and/or biological contexts that have shaped human pasts and presents–and that will shape humans’ collective futures.
Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium
The EST colloquium is a Monday afternoon speaker series organized by a graduate student coordinating committee, consisting of the second-year sociocultural anthropology graduate cohort at the Yale University Department of Anthropology. It aims to create an intellectually dynamic and rigorous academic space to share research approaches that emphasize connections between ethnographic writing, theory, and methods, especially those approaches that stimulate debate over innovation in anthropological praxis.
Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM)
RITM fosters intellectual exchanges that cross institutional, disciplinary, and geographic borders; enrich and challenge academic fields; and foreground perspectives often underrepresented in university and policy circles. RITM houses the undergraduate program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and the academic journal Social Text.
Yale Undergraduate Anthropology Collective (YUAC)
YUAC hopes to build a community for students who are interested in anthropology and collaborative learning. Looking at the world through an anthropological lens teaches us to understand the margins, to feel with compassion, and to think with humility. This is the ethic we hope to cultivate within the collective, which we envision as a space for making connections, sharing resources, and asking questions. Open to anthropology majors and non-majors.