Ethnography Lab

Upcoming Methods Café on Feb. 3rd: The Scholar-Activist, Featuring Dr. Anima Adjepong

Please join the Ethnography Lab and the Department of Anthropology's Professionalization Committee for the first installment of the Lab’s Winter term Methods Café series: The Scholar-Activist: A conversation on how an academic navigates different roles: fieldworker, activist, collaborator, and social organizer, featuring Dr. Anima Adjepong.

Date: February 3
Time: 1-2:30 pm
Location: Zoom event, RSVP at tinyurl.com/vzd4rzfh.

Our invited guest is Dr. Anima Adjepong (they/them) who is a sociologist, critical race, gender, and sexualities scholar. Their primary focus is Ghanaian cultural politics and social justice efforts across the African diaspora. Dr. Adjepong is an Assistant Professor of Women's Gender and Sexualities Studies at the University of Cincinnati and a member of Silent Majority Ghana as well as actively involved in transnational q***r feminist activism. Their book Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra has been published by the University of North Carolina Press (2021).

This event will be co-hosted by Dr. Girish Daswani.

*This event is part of the Ethnography Lab’s “Methods Café” series. Methods Cafés are typically lunch hour talks by practicing ethnographers on a specific aspect of ethnographic methods. In the past, the Ethnography Lab has hosted Cafés on gamestorming, surveys, and sound techniques, archival research, among others.
Check out our website—ethnographylab.ca —for information on upcoming Cafés or follow us on social media at .

We're Hiring! - Apply with the short application package by Dec. 15, 2022.

The Ethnography Lab team is hiring a new co-coordinator for the 2022-2023 academic year. Click the link below for more details.

We'd like to encourage folks who are new to the Lab the apply as well, especially folks with an interest in ethnographic methods. The Lab is an informal and welcoming space for grad students, faculty, and community members to explore and experiment with ethnographic methods. You're very welcome to shoot me (Wesley Brunson) an email at [email protected] to learn more about what we do and about the co-coordinator role in general.

Application deadline: December 15, 2022
Start date: January 1, 2023
Length of contract: Six months with a possibility of extension
Hours: Approximately 25 hours/month (flexible)
Rate of pay: Expected to be $31.57 per hour (funding dependent)

*preference will be given to UofT Anthropology graduate students
*preference will be given to candidates based in Toronto for the 2022-2023 academic year

To apply, send the following by email to: [email protected] -

A curriculum vitae, a short bio (max 150 words), and a statement explaining why you are interested in acting as the Ethnography Lab Co-coordinator, your experience with ethnography, your leadership skills, and your availability (maximum 250 words).

For the full posting visit - https://ethnographylab.ca/2022/12/01/were-hiring-a-co-coordinator-2/

Thank you to everyone who came out to our Opening Event and shared their ideas about ethnographic methods and practice! We're excited for the coming year and to put these ideas into action!