WHAT IS THE center for
EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY?
How do we expand the ways we learn and create?

How do we communicate scholarship more diversely and effectively?

How do we use what we learn to transform communities?

At the Center for Experimental Ethnography, we recognize that knowledge production is participatory, embodied, and social.  We know that the space of the 21st century university must extend beyond its walls and beyond books and labs.  And we understand that sometimes the most transformative experiences come through an encounter with a film, a performance, a poem, or a soundscape.  

The Center for Experimental Ethnography is committed to supporting these forms of knowledge production by promoting ethical, engaged, and experimental multi-modal research that is generated ethnographically.  
 
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CURRENT CEE PROJECTS
GROUNDS THAT SHOUT!  (AND OTHERS MERELY SHAKING).  
​CEE/CAMRA will document a collaborative residency between Partners for Sacred Places, Philadelphia Contemporary, and award-winning choreographer Reggie Wilson.  
PHOTOVOICE PROJECT 
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​CEE is also collaborating with Nadia Dowshen (Penn Med) and Joshua Franklin (MD-PhD student) on a photovoice project with transgender youth.  
 GRADUATE STUDENT SUMMER  RESEARCH GRANT 
 APPLY NOW
​The Center for Experimental Ethnography invites graduate students from across the University to apply for our student summer research grants.  

BLOG & EVENTS

BAD HABITUS

Check out our multimedia recap of the AAA session "Bad Habitus: Anthropology in the Age of the Multimodal" at the 2018 AAA Meetings.

JOIN US

Mark your calendars for the 7th Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF) in March! The festival will include interactive displays, performance, and critical conversation.

STAR WARS CREATOR

On Nov. 14 at the Hammer Theatre in San Jose, CEE Director Deborah Thomas sat down with George Lucas for an engaging conversation on ethnography and narrative storytelling.

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