Ana Ramos-Zayas

Ana Ramos-Zayas is also co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (Routledge, 2003); co-editor of Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies (NYU Press, 2022); and co-editor of Whiteness in Latin America and the Caribbean (LACES, Latin American Studies Association, 2023).   Ramos-Zayas has published journal articles in the fields of youth culture, race, citizenship and migration, the anthropology of emotion and affect, therapeutic cultures, and Latin American and Caribbean elites.  Prior to joining Yale in 2017, Ramos-Zayas conducted post-doctoral work in Educational Evaluation Research at Harvard; taught at Rutgers University-New Brunswick; and occupied the Valentin Lizana y Parragué Endowed Chair at the City University of New York. 

Ramos-Zayas’s ethnographic work examines systems of power and cultures of privilege at various scales in the Americas. Issues of social justice and the intersection of intimate worlds and political economic structures are fundamental concerns in her research.  Ramos-Zayas’s book-in-progress, tentatively titled Shrinking Wealth:  Psychoanalyzing the Brazilian Elite, focuses on the lives of a handful of individuals with unusual influence and access to the very wealthy in Sao Paulo: their psychoanalysts.