Collaborative Ethnography Page
I often get requests for my various writings on collaborative ethnography. I’ve compiled a selection of readings below, thematically organized. These are not exhaustive, but should you like more writings from a selected area, please do let me know and I’ll happily send more references.
Many of the links below point to book publishers, journals, or online sources that require university library access. Should you need a specific journal article or book chapter, let me know, and I’ll do my best to get you an original draft or PDF.
Definitions
“Defining Collaborative Ethnography,” in The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography (U of Chicago Press, 2005).
“Introduction: Conceptualizing Ethnography,” in Doing Ethnography Today, with Elizabeth Campbell (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015).
“Collaborative Ethnography,” in SAGE Research Methods Foundations, edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Melissa Hardy, and Malcolm William (Sage, 2019).
Histories and Precedents
“Collaborative Ethnography.” AnthroNotes 25(1):1-14 (2004).
“Collaborative Ethnography and Public Anthropology” Current Anthropology 46(1):83-106 (2005).
“Ethnographic Engagement.” International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, edited by Hillary Callan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018).
Dialogue, Voice, Representation
“Authoritative Texts, Collaborative Ethnography, and Native American Studies.” American Indian Quarterly 24(4):601-14 (2000).
“From ‘Reading Over the Shoulders of Natives’ to ‘Reading Alongside Natives’, Literally: Toward a Collaborative and Reciprocal Ethnography.” Journal of Anthropological Research 57 (2):137-49 (2001).
“The Muncie Race Riots of 1967, Representing Community Memory through Public Performance, and Collaborative Ethnography between Faculty, Students and the Local Community,” with Lee Papa [first author]. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 32(2):147-66 (2003).
“Collaborative Ethnography: What is It and How Can You Start Doing It?” in Building Research Design in Education: Theoretically Informed Advanced Methods, edited by Lorna Hamilton and John Ravenscroft, pp. 153-71. London: Bloomsbury (2018).
Context, Particularity, Difference
“What Will We Have Ethnography Do?” with Elizabeth Campbell. Qualitative Inquiry 16(9):757-67 (2010).
“Collaborative Ethnography in Context,” with Elizabeth Campbell [first author] and Kate Pahl [second author]), in Re-Imagining Contested Communities, edited by Elizabeth Campbell, Kate Pahl, Elizabeth Pente, and Zanib Rasool, pp. 91-106. Bristol, UK: Policy Press (2018).
“Toward a Collaborative Ethnography” and “Epilogue,” in I’m Afraid of that Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis, with Brian Hoey, Elizabeth Campbell, and the Graduate Humanities students and community research partners of the “Charleston Water Crisis” Graduate Humanities Program seminars. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press (2020).
Interview, Journal for the Anthropology of North America, with Elizabeth Campbell, Brian A. Hoey, Trish Hatfield, Jim Hatfield, Cat Pleska, and Angie Rosser; interviewer Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth (2021).
“Collaborative Ethnography: Trends, Developments, and Opportunities,” in Transforming Ethnomusicology: Methodologies, Institutional Structures and Policies, Vo1. 1, edited by Beverley Diamond and Salwa El Shawan Castelo-Branco, pp. 59-72. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2021).
Shared and Community Pedagogies
“From Collaborative Ethnography to Collaborative Pedagogy: Reflections on the Other Side of Middletown Project and Community-University Research Partnerships,” with Elizabeth Campbell [first author]. Anthropology & Education Quarterly 41(4):370-85 (2010).
“’To Fill in the Missing Piece of the Middletown Puzzle’: Lessons from Re-studying Middletown.” Sociological Review 60:421-37 (2012).
“Rethinking our Pedagogies.” Comments on “The Undergraduate Ethnographic Field School as a Research Method,” by John P. Hawkins. Current Anthropology 55(5): 574-75 (2014).
“Community-University Partnerships and the Marshall University Major Scholar Seminar.” Practicing Anthropology 41(3):11-12 (2019).