“The Other Side of Middletown: Building Bridges Between Universities and Local Communities
through Collaborative Ethnography”
through Collaborative Ethnography”
Yeager Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m., Sept.13
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.
Sponsored by PERCS: Elon’s Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies