Graduate Methods Workshop: From Theory to Interview—Defining the Politics of Method in Studies of Inequality

Description

This workshop examines the methodological choices we make as academics interested in inequality: how we define the objects we choose for analysis, how we frame the populations we are working with, and the ways we think about consent and personal relationships in the field.

We will examine each stage of the research process as a political choice and how we can think (and learn) to make those choices. Further, we will interrogate the many schisms that emerge in this process between the politics of the ivory tower and the politics on the outside and how to navigate these fault lines. Bring your own research projects, methods, and choices to discuss.

Tali Ziv is postdoctoral fellow in the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. She received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, receiving certificates in urban studies and Africana studies. Prior to her time at Penn, she earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan, where she designed her own major and course of graduate study in political economy and global health.

Ziv's research explores dynamics of care at the intersection of community-based health services and mass incarceration in the U.S. She charts the processes, both historical and contemporary, through which care emerges from the political-economic relations that govern racialized, urban inequality. Spanning the fields of anthropology, public health, and Africana studies, Ziv's research attends to the everyday experiences of giving and receiving health services in contexts of addiction, incarceration, and community reentry from jail and prison.

The workshop is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as faculty. Lunch will be provided.