Luke Eric Lassiter
"The Other Side of Middletown:
Building Bridges Between Universities and Local Communities
through Collaborative Ethnography"

Sponsored by PERCS:
Elon's Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies

Thursday, September 13, Yeager Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Luke Eric Lassiter, professor of humanities and anthropology at Marshall University Graduate College, received the prestigious Margaret Mead Award for The Other Side of Middletown: Exploring Muncie's African American Community. His work brought faculty, students, and community members together to produce a collaborative ethnography of Muncie's black community. Lassiter will speak about collaborative ethnography and how scholars and local communities can research and write together to advance multicultural understanding and social change.

Online Resources

Luke Eric Lassiter's homepage
http://home.earthlink.net/~elassite/

Lassiter's Collaborative Ethnography page http://home.earthlink.net/~elassite/page3.html

The Other Side of Middletown: Exploring Muncie's African American Community
Chapter One
http://home.earthlink.net/~elassite/OSM_Intro.pdf

Ticket Information

This program is free and the public is invited. No ticket is required.