Approaches to Ethnography
Analysis and Representation in Participant Observation
Edited by Colin Jerolmack and Shamus Khan
Author Information
Colin Jerolmack is Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at New York University and the author of The Global Pigeon. His current ethnographic research project focuses on how shale gas extraction (fracking) impacts rural community life.
Shamus Khan is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University. He is the author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School (Princeton, 2011), an ethnographic study of an elite boarding school, and coeditor of The Practice of Research: How Social Scientists Answer their Questions (with Dana Fisher, Oxford, 2013).
Contributors:
Katherine Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She specializes in the study of organizations, with a focus on democratic and relationship-building practices; her other research interests include work and occupations, economic sociology, social movements, urban community, and cultural sociology.
Teresa Gowan is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and the author of the ethnography Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco. Recent work includes comparative studies of self-making and poverty governance in the drug treatment industry and a study of a French alternative economy.
Black Hawk Hancock is an Associate Professor of Sociology at DePaul University. His past ethnographic research explored the revival of swing dancing, and his current ethnographic research focuses on the Mexican workers who form the backbone of the contemporary restaurant industry in Chicago.
Douglas Harper has written, photographed, and filmed several ethnographies. His first, Good Company, A Tramp Life, has been translated and published in Italian and French, and has recently been issued as a third edition. He has taught visual ethnography at the University of Bologna and the University of Amsterdam, and has had tenured positions in several universities in the U.S. His current work is on the visual identities of cities, including the uses of public areas, public art, and semiotic organization of space.
Jooyoung Lee is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Bissell-Heyd Fellow in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Senior Fellow in the Yale University Urban Ethnography Project, and a member of the Homicide Research Consortium, a multidisciplinary group of scholars studying the causes and consequences of homicide.
Monica McDermott is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the ways in which race and class interact in the contemporary United States.
Leslie Salzinger is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and an affiliated member of the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico's Global Factories. Her current work in progress, Model Markets: Peso Dollar Exchange as a Site of Neoliberal Incorporation, analyzes foreign exchange markets as crucial gendered and raced sites for Mexico's shift from "developing nation" to "emerging market."
Forrest Stuart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Broadly speaking, his work examines the causes, contours, and consequences of urban poverty, violence, and resilience.
Iddo Tavory is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University. His overarching interest is in the interactional patterns through which people come to construct and understand their lives across situations.
Stefan Timmermans is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a professor at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics.
