Field work on integration of bioplastics at the municipal level in the United States, exploration of 'open data' and digital citizenship agendas in Virginia, US; local and global variations of "smart city" in the U.S. and China with a co-ethnographer
I’ve conducted two relatively small ethnographic projects on public transportation (one on my own in Orange County and one with a class in Philadelphia). I’ve also done a lot of ethnographic observation in elementary schools, primarily in West Philadelphia music classrooms with undergraduate student volunteers.
First, I would point out that ethnographic method is used, co-opted and reinterpreted in many disciplines outside of anthropology. I see my work as engaging in educational ethnography. I have work around issues of informal learning, youth activism, and disability studies. More recently I position myself as an ethnographer within K-12 schools conducting fieldwork on governance and teaching during the complex, conjoined disasters of COVID-19 and our nation's racial reckoning.
Aging-in-place and elderly care in Troy, NY (2006-2008); Coal disasters and air quality in East Tennessee (2009); multi-sited study of asthma care (2009-2017); perceptions of environmental governance in Philadelphia, including climate change (2013-2019); energy vulnerability and just transitions in the US mid atlantic (2017-ongoing)