Approaches to Ethnography
Analysis and Representation in Participant Observation
Edited by Colin Jerolmack and Shamus Khan
Author Information
Edited by Colin Jerolmack, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental studies, New York University, and Edited by Shamus Khan, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Colin Jerolmack is an assistant professor of sociology and environmental studies at New York University. He is the author of The Global Pigeon (Chicago, 2013), a comparative ethnography of how our relationships with animals shape city 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. She specialized in the study of organizations; her other research interests include work and occupations, economic sociology, social movements, urban community, and cultural sociology.
Monica McDermott is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses upon the ways in which race and class interact in the contemporary United States.
Teresa Gowan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and has a Graduate Faculty Appointment in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota.
Black Hawk Hancock is an associate professor of sociology at DePaul University. His past ethnographic research has explored the revival of swing dancing , which his current ethnographic research explores the Mexican workers that have come to define the backbone or infrastructure of the restaurant industry of Chicago.
Douglas Harper is an American sociologist and photographer. He holds the Rev. Joseph A. Lauritis, C.S.Sp. Endowed Chair in Teaching with Technology at Duquesne University, a chair funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Colin Jerolmack is an assistant professor of sociology and environmental studies at New York University. His research interests include cities, the environment, human-animal relations, and culture; and he has taught courses on ethnographic methods and the logic of inquiry. His first book, The Global Pigeon is a comparative ethnography of how our relationships with animals shape city life. His research has been published in a number of journals, including the American Sociological Review, Ethnography, and Sociological Theory; and he has co-authored, with Shamus Khan, several articles on ethnographic methods. Jerolmack received his PhD in sociology from the City University of New York, Graduate Center.
Shamus Khan is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, where he researches culture, inequality, education, and elites and teaches courses on research methods and theory. He is the author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School, an ethnographic study of an elite boarding school, and co-editor of The Practice of Research: How Social Scientists Answer their Questions (with Dana Fisher, Oxford University Press, 2013). In addition, he has published his research in both academic and popular outlets such as the Annual Review of Sociology, The New York Times, and Time Magazine. Khan received his PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jooyoung Lee is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Bissell-Heyd Fellow in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He's also 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.
Leslie Salzinger is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an ethnographer, focused on gender, economic sociology, globalization, and feminist theory. Much of her research is in Latin America, especially in Mexico.
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 Assistant 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.
