A Ruth

Biographic Data

ID32355
NAMEA Ruth
GIVEN NAMESA
FAMILY NAMERuth
SIGNATURERUTH A
AFFILIATIONSArizona State University
ORCID0000-0001-6482-1922
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS42
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Teaching and Learning Participatory Methods in Anthropology

    Open AccessKrista M Harper, Krista Harper et al.ARTICLETeaching and Learning Anthropology2026

    Participatory methods in cultural anthropology continue to gain popularity. These methods respect community values and promote empowerment and co-creation, enhancing the ethicality and relevance of research findings. Despite their advantages, formal training in participatory methods is limited in anthropology programs, often leaving anthropologists to learn through trial and error with community partners. This article provides an overview of comm…

  • Mentoring in the social science laboratory

    A Ruth, Cindi L Sturtzsreetharan et al.ARTICLEMentoring & Tutoring: Partnership…2026

    Graduate research programs aim to cultivate students’ abilities to conduct scientific research, including theory development and application, research design, data analysis, and transferable skills like collaboration and communication. Historically, social science training has emphasized individual rather than team-based work. This may limit knowledge creation and negatively impact student confidence and overall mental health. With a growing emph…

  • How to organise undergraduate lab training

    A Ruth, Cindi L Sturtzsreetharan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Further and Higher…2026

    The impacts of undergraduate research experiences are multiple and varied. Working in traditional laboratories (e.g. in the bench sciences) fosters many skills, including independence and critical thinking. Likewise, social science laboratories demonstrate important impacts on students with regard to clarification of career paths, understanding the research process, fostering a systems thinking approach to complex problems, and the ability to ana…

  • Comparing methods for research mentorship

    A Ruth, Melissa Beresford et al.ARTICLETeaching in Higher Education2025

    Recent research finds that a classic approach to research mentorship – the Socratic method – where faculty foster learning by posing probing questions, can also create gender and racial disparities in learning gains. A newer research mentorship method, the Critical Response Process (CRP), may address these shortcomings by giving students control over the flow and quality of feedback they receive. We test and compare the efficacy of these two meth…

  • Value Propositions Provide a Roadmap for Teaching Doctoral Students How to Develop Research Proposals

    Open AccessA Ruth, Melissa Beresford et al.ARTICLETeaching Anthropology2025

    Writing winning proposals for funding research is an essential skill for doctoral students in the social sciences. Still, most anthropology programs lack formal instruction on this, relying instead on informal mentorship. To advance this, we evaluated the Value Proposition framework in teaching anthropology Ph.D. students to write proposals. Our findings from the feedback from students and faculty in the NSF-funded Cultural Anthropology Methods P…

  • School Choice and Neighborhood Relationships in Urban Areas

    Open AccessA Ruth, Abraham Ibukunoluwa Oyewole et al.ARTICLEEducation and Urban Society2025References: 54

    Traditional school enrollment practices, especially in urban areas, were guided by neighborhood boundaries and students had to attend their zoned school. However, there has been an increase of “school choice” policies across the United States, in which parents are allowed to openly enroll their children in schools regardless of boundary restrictions. Concomitantly, there is an increase in loneliness and a decrease in social connectedness in indiv…

  • Be Proactive, Perform Regular Skin Self‐Exams and Protect Yourself”

    Open AccessAntigone Mungia, Cindi L Sturtzsreetharan et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Anthropological Practice2025References: 67

    We analyze US‐based online skin cancer organization awareness campaigns, with a particular focus on melanoma, to ask how the skin is discursively created. We focus on the ways people are pushed into the role of the biocitizen and impelled to act in specific ways within the current neoliberal health risk culture. Undertaking a discourse analysis of skin cancer education information reveals that skin is constructed as fragile, at risk, and in need …

  • Power, structure, and health

    Open AccessAlexandra Brewis, Cindi L Sturtzsreetharan et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025Cited by: 1References: 39

  • Youth Unemployment and Criminality

    Open AccessA Ruth, Anumo Francis Ruth et al.ARTICLEEAS Journal of Humanities and…2024

    Background: Youth unemployment has become a pervasive issue in Nigeria, particularly in rural communities like Otuoke, where limited economic opportunities and social pressures contribute to increased rates of criminality, including burglary. This study investigates the relationship between youth unemployment and burglary in Otuoke community, Bayelsa State, aiming to shed light on the socio-economic factors driving this correlation. Aim: This stu…

  • Scaling up Through Online Research Mentorship – Lessons Learned

    A Ruth, Melissa Beresford et al.ARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2024

    The NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP) first iteration was a hybrid virtual model due to the world pandemic. Drawing on established pedagogical principles, the program combined asynchronous lectures with synchronous online instruction, hands-on activities, and mentorship sessions. The curriculum encompassed a diverse range of activities, including research project development and problem-solving exercises. Despite the benefits of vi…

  • The New NSF Camp Feedback Method for Research Mentorship

    A Ruth, M V Du Bray et al.ARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2024

    The National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP) aims to cultivate students' ability to craft competitive research proposals. Over three years of CAMP, we tested and iterated different feedback models: the Socratic method, the Value Proposition approach, and the Critical Response Process (CRP). We ultimately designed the NSF CAMP Feedback Method that integrates successful elements from these three models for the pres…

  • New Teaching in Participatory Methods for Practicing Anthropology

    Elisabeth Kago Ilboudo Nébié, A Wutich et al.ARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2024

    Anthropologists are moving away from viewing anthropology as a solitary affair towards collaborative research, which values knowledge co-production with community members from research design to data analysis and write-up. By including the people who know most about the field site, participatory research seeks to confront power imbalances and advance social change. Building the capacity of students to fully engage with community partners is criti…

  • Building an Inclusive Big Tent for Methods

    Rennie Negron, A Ruth et al.ARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2024

    Creating a Community of Practice has been central to the vision of the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP). The CAMP Community of Practice explores the practices of doing research and teaching research methods, drawing on the great diversity of methods used by anthropologists who collect and analyze cultural data. The methodological diversity now represented in CAMP reflects exciting developments in our discipline, but it also poses …

  • Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology

    Open AccessJ G Snodgra, Michael G Lacy et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Anthropological Practice2024References: 30

    We use a mix of qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine 1354 survey responses from members of the American Anthropological Association about their practice and teaching of cultural anthropology research methods. Latent profile analysis and an examination of responses to open-ended survey questions reveal distinctive methodological clustering among anthropologists. However, two historical approaches to ethnography remain prominent: deep h…

  • Ethnographic methods

    Open AccessMelissa Beresford, Rosalyn Negrón et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2024Cited by: 4References: 81

    American anthropology is engaged in significant self-reckonings that call for big changes to how anthropology is practiced. These include (1) recognizing and taking seriously the demands to decolonize the ways research is done, (2) addressing precarious employment in academic anthropology, and (3) creating a discipline better positioned to respond to urgent societal needs. A central role for ethnographic methods training is a thread that runs thr…

  • Effectiveness of social science research opportunities

    A Ruth, Alexandra Brewis et al.ARTICLETeaching in Higher Education2023

    Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) can improve student skills, retention, and matriculation to postgraduate study. Traditionally, UREs are available mostly in the natural and biological sciences, which have fewer minority and women majors and thus have disproportionately excluded these groups from such experiences. One effective solution is to diversify and increase course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) within the social …

  • Research supervisors and undergraduate students’ perceived gains from undergraduate research experiences in the social sciences

    A Ruth, Alexandra Brewis et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023References: 5

    Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) enhance student retention, provide transferrable skills, and prepare students for advanced graduate study. The majority of these benefits, however, are concentrated within the natural and biological sciences; disciplines with historical under-representation of non-male students. If offered in the social sciences, UREs would be more accessible to women, students of colour, and first-generation students. Bu…

  • Ethnographic Methods Training Norms and Practices and the Future of American Anthropology

    Rennie Negron, A Wutich et al.PREPRINT2023

    American Anthropology is engaged in significant self-reckonings that call for big changes to how anthropology is practiced. These include (1) recognizing and taking seriously the demands to decolonize the ways research is done; (2) addressing precarious employment in academic anthropology; and (3) creating a discipline better positioned to respond to urgent societal needs. A central role for ethnographic methods training is a thread that runs thr…

  • Effectiveness of online social science undergraduate research experiences

    Open AccessA Ruth, Alexandra Brewis et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2022

    Undergraduate research experience (UREs) benefit students, but are typically conducted in person. In 2020–2021, many research and teaching activities unexpectedly moved into virtual spaces. We identify key benefits and challenges experienced by virtual URE participants in the social sciences, based on systematic coding of aligned surveys with both faculty and students. Perceived benefits included access and flexibility. Both mentors and students …

  • Teaching Ethnographic Methods

    A Ruth, Katherine Mayfour et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization2022

    Ethnography is a core methodology in anthropology and other disciplines. Yet, there is currently no scholarly consensus on how to teach ethnographic methods—or even what methods belong in the ethnographic toolkit. We report on a systematic analysis of syllabi to gauge how ethnographic methods are taught in the United States. We analyze 107 methods syllabi from a nationally elicited sample of university faculty who teach ethnography. Systematic co…

  • Teaching Ethnographic Methods for Cultural Anthropology

    Open AccessA Ruth, Katherine Woolard et al.ARTICLETeaching Anthropology2022Cited by: 6References: 12

    Historically, ethnographic methods were learned by cultural anthropology students in individual research projects. This approach creates challenges for teaching in ways that respond to the next generation’s calls to decenter anthropology’s White, heteropatriarchal voices and engage in collaborative community-based research. Analyzing syllabi from 107 ethnographic methods training courses from the United States, we find the tradition of the “lone …

  • Experiential Dual Frame of Reference

    Open AccessEmir Estrada, A RuthARTICLEQualitative Sociology2021Cited by: 2References: 34

  • A programmatic intervention to promote entrepreneurial self-efficacy, critical behavior, and technology readiness among underrepresented college students

    Open AccessGermán A Cadenas, Elizabeth Angélica Cantú et al.ARTICLEJournal of Vocational Behavior2020

  • Community and Autonomy

    A Ruth, Melissa Beresford et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization2020

    Over the past half-century, as neoliberal governance agendas dismantle state-sponsored safety nets and emphasize individual economic responsibility, entrepreneurship has become a ubiquitous form of work. Ethnographic research shows that individuals who pursue entrepreneurship are often motivated by a neoliberal ethos of self-reliance, higher earnings, and greater autonomy. Recent research, however, has shown that motivations vary for entrepreneur…

  • Soy de aquí, soy de allá

    Open AccessA Ruth, Emir Estrada et al.ARTICLELatino Studies2019Cited by: 5References: 14