MSU Denver Ethnography Lab
MSU Denver Ethnography Lab
MSU Denver Ethnography Lab
The MSU Denver Ethnography Lab is located in CN 106S. For more information, to reserve and check out equipment call 303-556-3168.
The MSU Denver Ethnography Lab is a research and training facility dedicated to the documentation and analysis of human culture. As a professional data-gathering method, ethnography involves cultural and linguistic immersion in the community under study and the collection of qualitative data through participant-observation, interviewing, recording of naturally-occurring social interaction, and other techniques. Analysis centers on the patterns and substance of human beliefs and practices as they relate to a diverse set of real world communities and issues.
Housed within the Department of Sociology and Anthropology the MSU Denver Ethnography Lab facilitates access to state-of-the-art field equipment and technologies used by professional ethnographers, including high-quality digital audio recording equipment, microphones, and headsets. Laboratory work stations (PCs) are outfitted with software for transcribing, analyzing, and archiving digital audio, visual, and textual data. The facility also houses a small library. The Lab supports courses in Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, as well as Sociology, providing undergraduate students with hands-on training in ethnographic data-gathering and qualitative data analysis.
Ongoing professional research projects include: Survey of Human Rights Education in American Universities, Analysis of Okinawan Marriage Narratives, Digital Archive of Denver Neighborhoods Research, Project on Poverty and Structural Violence in Nicaragua. The Lab also provides resources and support for the LAS Center for Applied Research, the Ute Mountain Field Internship Program, and two Faculty-Led Study Abroad programs in Japan and Nicaragua.
Co-Directors:
Rebecca Forgash, PhD(rforgash@msudenver.edu) http://www.msudenver.edu/searchchannel/jsp/directoryprofile/profile.jsp?uName=rforgash)
Julie A. Reyes, PhD (jreyes7@msudenver.edu)
http://www.msudenver.edu/searchchannel/jsp/directoryprofile/profile.jsp?uName=jreyes7
Research Assistants: Savannah Yapuncich, Iain Thomas, Matthew Boisvert
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