The culminating project for Seminar 2 is a collaboratively-built website about neighborhoods in New York that are subsequently archived at the Seminar 2 Encyclopedia. In this class, students worked in groups to conduct an ethnographic study about a neighborhood using the five senses. This final project builds on skills and concepts taught throughout the semester such as field trips to practice ethnographic […]
A recent NYT article by Jennifer Schuessler reports about Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond’s upcoming book Evicted: Poverty and Property in the American City that will be published next week: The sociologist William Julius Wilson called Mr. Desmond’s research, which combines ethnographic observation with reams of hard-won data, “one of the most comprehensive field studies of the […]
