Other Ethnography Collaboratives
Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media @ UC BoulderThe Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media brings people together to engage with lived experience through documentary. At the Center, new projects push the boundaries of media and technology to expand the social impact of documentary and ethnography.
Center for Ethnographic Research @ UC Berkeley
The mission of the Center for Ethnographic Research (CER) is to promote and support interdisciplinary research on social issues using participant-observation and allied techniques. The Center has two mandates: research and training. The primary objective in the area of research is to provide in-depth understanding of issues and problems facing the variety of social environments throughout the world. In the area of training, the primary goal is to instruct undergraduate and graduate students in the principles and techniques of ethnographic methodology.
The Center for Ethnography @ UC Irvine
The Center for Ethnography hosts projects that support continuing innovation in the practice, expression, and theorization of ethnography. Based at the University of California Irvine since 2006, the Center connects people and projects around the world. The center is an instance of the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, set up to provide digital work and publications space for the Center’s projects.
Centre for Ethnography @ Toronto
The Centre for Ethnography was established to foster and promote ethnographic research and writing . The Centre for Ethnography hosts an annual speakers series, international workshops, undergraduate methods and research courses, and an annual competition for a fellowship in ethnographic writing. People carrying out ethnographic fieldwork in the Toronto region may affiliate with the Centre for Ethnography while in Toronto, and are welcome to attend our speakers series and other events.
Center for Experimental Ethnography @ Penn
This is a group of faculty across disciplines and schools who are committed to ethical, engaged, electric, ecstatic and, most of all, experimental multi-modal work that is generated ethnographically. The Center seeks to generate and amplify discussions regarding the emerging forms scholarly research is taking in the humanities and social sciences and the varied institutional responses to nontraditional genres of research practice and dissemination.
The UC Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design @ UCSD
The UC Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design (CoLED) is an interdisciplinary hub for innovative ethnographic theory and methodology linking campuses across the University of California system. CoLED links faculty, postgraduate researchers and graduate students from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz and UC San Diego.Our participants are researchers with a drive to explore the future of ethnography. The CoLED network links initiatives at the cutting edge of innovative ethnographic work that takes on global themes and contributes to transnational scholarly conversations
Digital Ethnography Working Group @ Rutgers
Digital ethnography is a burgeoning field of research, and the goal of the Digital Ethnography Working Group is to develop a deeper understanding of how people live in this digital era and uncover the most innovative methods to study digital communication, information, and media from an ethnographic standpoint. To establish SC&I at the forefront of digital ethnography, this working group provides outstanding support, training, and visibility to faculty and graduate students interested in this evolving research area.
The Ethnography Studio @ USC
The Ethnography Studio at USC brings together ethnographers from a broad array of disciplines and approaches–from arts to engineering, anthropology to education, computer science to sociology–who are experimenting with ways of understanding complex social phenomena, of small and large scales, while embracing the uncertainty and ambiguities that ethnographic research affords for creative thinking.
Ethnographic Collaboratory of the European Association of Social Anthropology
#Colleex is a network that aims to open up a space for debate and intervention around experimental forms of ethnographic (field)work. Amid profound debates in recent years on the nature and conventions of ethnography, #Colleex seeks to explore novel forms of knowledge production for anthropology. The network is organized as a ‘collaboratory’ whose main agenda is to foster practical explorations alongside theoretical debates on what we call ethnographic experimentation.
Global Ethnography @ Stanford
The Center for Global Ethnography brings together faculty and graduate students from a variety of disciplines, who are engaged in ethnographic research. The Center serves those interested in linking ethnography with other research methods. In addition to showcasing interdisciplinary conversations and collaborations of ethnographic research, the Center trains graduate students for rigorous, meaningful and ethical ethnographic fieldwork.
The Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography, & Social Thought @ The New School
The Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography & Social Thought (GIDEST) incubates advanced research at the intersection of social theory and design, fostering dialogue on related themes across the university. Through our lab in the University Center, we serve as a university-wide hub for collaborative faculty research, interdisciplinary doctoral dissertations, and innovative scholarly practices that draw substantively on ethnographic methodologies and sensibilities.
Intersections @ Wesleyan
How can today’s anthropologists, artists, curators, performers, and storytellers of other sorts sit in the intersections and disjunctures of their various fields, and make sense of shared desires for non-extractive, non-exploitative storytelling? This project and the courses and work that take place within its auspices are one mode into asking these questions. While we may not come to any answers, this collective exploration of anthropology and its intersections with the arts and forms of public culture seeks to center these questions and develop a collective and collaborative praxis.
Sensory Ethnography Lab @ Harvard
The Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) is an experimental laboratory that promotes innovative combinations of aesthetics and ethnography. It uses analog and digital media, installation, and performance, to explore the aesthetics and ontology of the natural and unnatural world. Harnessing perspectives drawn from the arts, the social and natural sciences, and the humanities, SEL encourages attention to the many dimensions of the world, both animate and inanimate, that may only with difficulty, if it all, be rendered with words.