Charles Goodwin’s Reflections upon Retirement
SLA Interview with Charles Goodwin What article or book that you wrote are you most pleased with? Could you talk about the story behind writing it? While “Professional Vision”…
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Rick Parmentier’s Reflections upon Retirement
Rick Parmentier January 24, 2017 SLA interview with Rick Parmentier Rick Parmentier What article or book that you wrote are you most pleased with? Could you talk about the…
William Leap’s Reflections upon Retirement
William Leap August 13, 2018 William Leap is retiring after being a professor of anthropology at American University for 46 years. Ilana Gershon asks him to reflect on…
Bonnie Urciuoli’s Reflections on Retirement
SLA INTERVIEW WITH BONNIE URICIUOLI August 15, 2017 Bonnie Urciuoli. Nancy L. Ford What article or book that you wrote are you most pleased with? Could you talk about…
Carrie Clanton takes the page 99 test
My PhD thesis, Uncanny Others: Hauntology, Ethnography, Media, started out as an ethnographic study of people who pursue ghosts as a hobby in the U.K. As a visual…
Beata Jungselius takes the Page 99 test
My page 99 is found within the chapter ”Summary of findings and contribution of thesis” of my thesis ”Using social media” in which I explore social media use…
Rahul Advani on page 99 of his dissertation
Page 99 of my dissertation is the first time in the dissertation that I provide an ethnographic example of how marginalized educated young men native to Pune assert…
Joshua Bluteau on his dissertation
My temptation is to hedge my bets and confidently claim that I have two page ninety-nines. This is true in the sense that there is a literal ninety-ninth…
Teri Silvio on her new book, Puppets, Gods, and Brands
https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/product/puppets-gods-and-brands-theorizing-the-age-of-animation-from-taiwan/ Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: What first led you to start thinking about animation? …
Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson on her dissertation
My dissertation, titled “Language Use and Global Media Circulation Among Argentine Fans of English-Language Mass Media”, explores the links between globalization, media/pop culture, and language throu…
David Flood takes the page 99 test
My dissertation examines everyday interactions between two groups of white people in the US who to all appearances should get along but don’t, despite their sustained efforts towards…
Morgan Ames on The Charisma Machine
On Henry Jenkins’ blog, he interview Morgan Ames about the One Laptop Per Child project. With Jenkins’ permission, I am re-posting the interview here (but see the…
Herve Varenne on his new book, Educating in Life
https://www.routledge.com/Educating-in-Life-Educational-Theory-and-the-Emergence-of-New-Normals/Varenne/p/book/9781138313668 Ilana Gershon: This book contains a wide range of ethnographic topics – h…
Vijayanka Nair takes the page 99 test
My dissertation is an ethnographic study of India’s Aadhaar (foundation) program, a colossal technocratic project that seeks to redefine how the Indian state (over)sees its population. Under the…
Shalini Shanker on Beeline
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/shalini-shankar/beeline/9781549168222/ Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: When did you first realize that there was such a rich research project in South Asia…
Leo Hopkinson takes the page 99 test
A match is arranged between two boxers as part of the funeral celebrations of a prominent boxing coach in central Accra, Ghana. On arriving at the venue and…
Robert Samet on his book, Deadline
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo38871952.html Interview by Alejandro Velasco Alejandro Velasco: Venezuela is in the news these days, but that wasn’t always the case. For dec…
Hilary Dick on Words of Passage
Interview by Alejandro I. Paz https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/dick-words-of-passage Alejandro I. Paz: Your book follows the ways that, given the entanglements between the US and Mexican economies, M…
Jon Bialecki on his book, A Diagram for Fire
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520294219/a-diagram-for-fire Interview by Anna Eisenstein Anna Eisenstein: Your book identifies the miracle as the defining feature of American Charismatic Evangeli…
Jenanne Ferguson on her book, Words Like Birds
Interview by Laura Siragusa https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9781496208880/ Laura Siragusa: In your rich ethnography about language practices in the Sakha Republic, Russ…
Liz Gunner on her book, Radio Soundings
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/radio-soundings/032576130F53ED88EA2765200B763F9F Interview by Louisa Meintjes Louisa Meintjes: In analyses about popular culture produced during apartheid, Zulu …
Omri Grinberg takes the p. 99 test
Sarah Mitchell’s admirable avoidance of “gaming” the pg. 99 test (link) ironically inspired me to not avoid the temptation of doing so, mainly because despite “cheating”, the test’s…
Devin Proctor’s page 99 test
My dissertation, On Being Non-Human: Otherkin Identification and Virtual Space, is based on five years of ethnographic engagement examining identity construction and social practice among the Otherkin…
Ben Tausig on his book, Bangkok is Rising
Interview by Mack Hagood https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bangkok-is-ringing-9780190847524 Mack Hagood: Bangkok is Ringing brings us into the center of the Red Shirt protests in Bangkok during…