Workshop in Urban Ethnography-Fall 2012

Workshop Schedule and Speakers


September 10th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Elijah Anderson
A Place on the Corner: The Field Experience

September 17th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Armando Lara-Millan
Public Emergency Room Overcrowding in the Era of Mass Incarceration

September 24th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Gerald D. Suttles
Backing into Ethnography: How I Came To Do Field Work

October 1st, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Brian Starks
An Ethnographic Examination of the First Phase of the Criminal Court Process in Atlanta and Philadelphia

October 8th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Peter Moskos
From Desk to Street and Back: Conceptualizing, Researching, and Writing an Ethnography People Want to Read

October 15th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Rachel Woldoff
White Flight/Black Flight: The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood

October 22nd, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Elijah Anderson
“The Cosmopolitan Canopy” and the “Iconic Ghetto”

October 29th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Diane Grams
High Tech Urban Ethnography

November 5th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Peter Bearman
Doormen: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries

November 12th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
William Helmreich
The New York Nobody Knows: A 6,000 Mile Walk Through the City’s Streets

November 26th , 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Robert J. Sampson
Seeing the City

December 3rd, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Chris Winship and Joe Krupnick
Keeping Up the Front: How Disadvantaged Black Youth Avoid Street Violence in the Inner City