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

RITM home page image of a Titus Kaphar piece, Shifting the Gaze Titus Kaphar, Shifting the Gaze (2017)

Who We Are

RITM fosters intellectual exchanges that cross institutional, disciplinary, and geographic borders; enrich and challenge academic fields; and foreground underrepresented perspectives.

Mission & Vision

Scholarship & Research

RITM is devoted to advancing intellectual work related to Ethnic Studies fields; to intersectional race, gender, and sexuality research; and to Native and diasporic communities both in the United States and other countries.

Research People
1000+ RITM has supported thousands of researchers whose work spans the globe.
76 RITM currently supports seventy-six academic fellows, including undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and post-doctoral fellows.
21 Fellows come from twenty-one academic departments and units across the university.

Yale RITM Community

RITM works with and across multiple departments and programs at the university. Our community is built through fellowships, collaborations, and sustained support of research and collegiality.

Meet Our Team Meet Our Fellows

  • Senior Essay Awards

    Moreno Prize Hayase Prize

    Awarded annually to the best student paper or senior essay focusing on the Asian American (Hayase Prize) or Latinx (Moreno Prize) experience in the United States. Deadline for submissions in April 17, 2026.

    Moreno Prize Hayase Prize

Resources for Teaching and Learning

RITM provides a variety of curricular resources to faculty, graduate and professional students, and undergraduates who share an academic interest in issues related to race, indigeneity, and transnational migration

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