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Immigrant Workers, Workplace Abuses and the US Law
María worked in a vitamin factory in central New Jersey, where she lived with her husband and two small children. María was from Mexico, having crossed the border into the United States five years...
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A Defense of NSF Funding from the Field
Every day since arriving in Tokyo this past April to do anthropological fieldwork, I have been thinking about earthquakes. That is to say, I catch myself imagining the very real possibility that the...
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The Raw and the Reviewed
My Experiences with the NSF One of the most significant moments in my early career was being awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF DDRIG). Another...
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Creating One’s Own Postdoc Position
An NSF-funded Investigation of Cultural Change in Amazonia I work at an ethnic boundary. “When they [the Matsigenka] first come, they have many problems, and they are used to not working. That is one...
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Exploring Ethnographic Film Archiving Today
Last spring, a group of 20 notable archivists, anthropologists, filmmakers and others concerned with the future of ethnographic media met at Harvard’s Peabody Museum for the Roundtable on Ethnographic...
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Time and Money
Fieldwork Takes Both My research site in Kampala, Uganda is heavily saturated by national and international NGOs with short term research programs for monitoring and evaluation. Kampalans are quite...
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Crude Entanglements
Living with Oil in Ecuador Thanks to social science funding from the NSF, we are researching how energy policy and resource extraction affect communities. As we conclude the first year of the...
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Unemployment and Divine Plans
When I began my research interviewing unemployed and underemployed Southern Californians in 2011, I did not expect that their religious views would turn out to be so important. Previous studies of...
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