This fresh(wo)man seminar explores how reproductive technologies are changing lives around the globe. Since the introduction of oral contraceptives in the early 1960s, the past 50 years have seen the rapid innovation and globalization of many other reproductive...

This undergraduate seminar explores the lives of women and men in the contemporary Middle East through a series of anthropological studies and documentary films. Over the past three decades, the Middle East has witnessed profound transformations—not only on the...

This interdisciplinary, graduate-undergraduate seminar, designed for students in anthropology, women’s studies, and related fields, explores contemporary intersectionality theory:  namely, how the intersections of race/class/gender and other axes of oppression (e.g.,...

This interdisciplinary seminar, designed for students in Anthropology, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Global Health at Yale, is designed to explore in an in-depth fashion ethnographic approaches to masculinity and men’s health around the globe. The course...

This interdisciplinary seminar, designed for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in Anthropology and Global Health at Yale, is designed to explore in an in-depth fashion anthropological ethnographies on many of the serious health problems facing populations...

  This graduate seminar for anthropology doctoral students is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the ethnographic research enterprise. The course focuses on ethics and entrée to the research setting, ethnographic research design, interview-based and...

This graduate seminar is designed to introduce Council on Middle East Studies (CMES) graduate certificate students, International Relations master’s students, and doctoral students from Anthropology, History, Political Science, and other disciplines, to some of the...

The subfield of medical anthropology boasts a rich theoretical and empirical scholarly tradition, in which a significant number of critically acclaimed, award-winning ethnographies have been written on topics ranging from embodiment and local biologies to the health...