The program of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration provides a framework for interdisciplinary inquiry related to global race formations, indigeneity, human mobility, culture, and politics. The program draws from the long-standing fields of U.S. ethnic and Native studies, postcolonial, and subaltern studies but also represents emergent areas like queer of color critique, comparative diaspora studies, critical Muslim and critical refugee studies, race and media studies, feminist science studies, and the environmental humanities.
Our concerns are both historical and of the present, and we work at various scales of analysis: (trans)local, (trans)national, (trans)regional, and global. Our approach departs from nation-centered area studies by crossing geographic and linguistic boundaries. We ask fundamental questions that have long defined the humanities and social sciences but often from the vantage point of non-state peoples, diasporas, and the minoritized. We value the social and political imaginaries of global subjects and use them to investigate sovereign power, social conflict, labor formations, and cultural production from a critical, integrative approach. We actively support public-facing and socially engaged scholarship and cultural work.
The aim of the graduate certificate is to provide graduate-level coursework, taught by ER&M affiliate faculty, in the interdisciplinary and comparative study of race, transnational migration, and indigeneity within a global framework, and to certify students who complete the program to improve their chances of obtaining post-degree employment in related fields. The certificate program will be open to students already enrolled in doctoral programs at Yale University and will complement students’ ongoing studies in their degree-granting programs.
The certificate has three major goals:
- Provide students with instruction and pre-professional training in the study of ethnicity, race, and migration, which represent areas of growth and dynamism in the academy;
- Expand doctoral students’ professional opportunities as they complete their studies; and
- Cultivate under-represented scholars for careers in higher education and expand the diversity and excellence of the professoriate.
