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Joseph Rodriguez: Untitled, ca. mid–late 1980s, inkjet print, 66 by 44 inches
Sebastián Pérez, Ph.D. student in American Studies and ER&M alumnus (2010), is currently a doctoral fellow at Williams. To read his article in Art in America Magazine...
Photo of Albert Laguna and his book cover called  Diversion, Play and Popular Culture in Cuban America
There was a time when Albert Laguna thought his father was the funniest man in the world. Until, that is, he began to research the topic of popular culture in Cuba for his...
Portrait of Henry Roe Cloud, circa 1910
The Yale Group for the Study of Native America (YGSNA) invites applications for the 2018 Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American Indian and Indigenous...
Dixa Ramirez is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Her first book, Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the...
In the 20 years since it was established, Yale’s Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program has grown significantly in both programming and size — particularly in the last two...
Ana Ramos-Zayas  “I learned to teach from teaching in very poor high schools, and because of that I’m very aware that students aren’t just students,” said Ana Ramos-Zayas,...
Albert Laguna’s book is a re-examination of the Cuban diaspora through he lens of popular culture.  In an era of warming relations between the US and Cuba, this book...