Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity & Transnational Migration

10/08/2026

10/08/2026

Join us for a new RITM research workshop series with invited speaker, Professor Nancy Hiemstra, whose interests include global migration, immigration enforcement practices, detention and deportation, homeland security, borders, gender, race, Latin America, and feminist epistemology and methodologies. Readings will be pre-circulated and participants are encouraged to bring and share about their own research challenges. RSVP required. See link below.
Book Talk will follow at 4pm in HQ276.

09/08/2026

You’re invited ✨! Join us for our Welcome Reception with ER&M next Tuesday, September 15th at 4pm! We’ll be enjoying refreshments and catching up in HQ 136. See you there!

08/31/2026

📣We are excited to announce that applications for RITM Undergraduate Fellows. Learn more and apply by scanning the QR code or visiting our website.

08/25/2026

📣We are happy to announce that applications are open for our 5th annual Teaching Race Fellowship! Scan the QR code or visit our website (link in bio) to begin your application.

05/26/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 winners of the Henry K. Hayase Prize and the Justice Carlos R. Moreno Prizes! Winners were selected by faculty selection committees and announced during the 2026 commencement ceremonies.

Established in 1988, the Henry K. Hayase Prize is awarded annually to the best student paper or senior essay dealing with a topic relating to Asian American experiences in the United States.

Established in the fall of 2009, the Justice Carlos R. Moreno Prize is awarded annually to the best senior essay focusing on the field of Latinx Studies, or on the Latinx experience in the United States.

Learn more about the prizes at ritm.yale.edu

05/01/2026

We asked our community: what’s an underrated book from your academic studies that deserves more attention?

Former RITM Graduate Fellow Jorge Bañuelos reflects on “Social Science as Imperialism: The Theory of Political Development” by Claude Ake. The book challenges the assumed neutrality of social science, offering a critical lens on how academic frameworks can reproduce imperialist logics while pointing toward alternative ways of thinking and studying power.

Swipe to read his reflection and learn more about the text.

What’s an underrated book that’s stayed with you? Comment below!

04/15/2026

Get to know Amanda Reid and her work in our RITM Faculty Highlights Series (Part 3)!

Amanda Reid is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. Prior to coming to Yale, Amanda was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center and a Lecturer in Stanford University TAPS (2020-2022). She writes and teaches about dance, q***r studies, transnational/diasporic archival methodologies, and post-colonial Caribbean black radicalism. Her first book, Smaddification: Dance and Decolonization in Jamaica (Duke University Press, 2026), explores maximalist q***r diaspora aesthetics in Jamaican concert dance to theorize West Indian regional visions of blackness, bodily freedom, and cultural autonomy. Her work can be found in Theatre Journal and The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies (OUP, forthcoming 2025).

Learn more about our work at ritm.yale.edu.

03/30/2026

Get to know Amanda Reid and her work in our RITM Faculty Highlights Series (Part 2)!

Amanda Reid is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. Prior to coming to Yale, Amanda was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center and a Lecturer in Stanford University TAPS (2020-2022). She writes and teaches about dance, q***r studies, transnational/diasporic archival methodologies, and post-colonial Caribbean black radicalism. Her first book, Smaddification: Dance and Decolonization in Jamaica (Duke University Press, 2026), explores maximalist q***r diaspora aesthetics in Jamaican concert dance to theorize West Indian regional visions of blackness, bodily freedom, and cultural autonomy. Her work can be found in Theatre Journal and The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies (OUP, forthcoming 2025).

Learn more about our work at ritm.yale.edu.