Women in Science and Engineering at Yale (2020 Edition)

Ana Ramos-Zayas, Ph.D.

Professor, Departments of American Studies, Anthropology, and Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Ana Ramos-Zayas has published journal articles in the fields of youth culture, race and critical race theory, citizenship and migration, and the anthropology of emotion and affect. She is author or co-author of four books, the most recent being Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America (Duke University Press, 2020). This book examines the parenting practices and subjectivities of Brazilian and Puerto Rican upper-classes, as these alter urban landscapes, provide moral justifications for segregation, surveillance, and foreign interventions, and recast idioms of crisis, corruption, and austerity according to the dictums of U.S. empire.