Krista Harper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Krista Harper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Krista |
| FAMILY NAME | Harper |
| SIGNATURE | HARPER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology and the Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA), University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Teaching and Learning Participatory Methods in Anthropology: Recognizing and Overcoming Significant Obstacles
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…
Value Propositions Provide a Roadmap for Teaching Doctoral Students How to Develop Research Proposals
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…
Fieldschool Is Not What It Used to Be: Innovations in Teaching and Learning Ethnographic Methods
This article examines how teaching and learning ethnographic methods could be adapted to contemporary times, considering shifting understandings of ethnography and practical attention to the experiences of new fieldworkers. Using the European Field Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a case study, we identify several pedagogical techniques, including a cohort-based learning model, peer mentoring, and group blogging, to s…
Ethnographic methods: Training norms and practices and the future of American anthropology
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…
Ethnographic Methods Training Norms and Practices and the Future of American Anthropology
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…
Teaching Ethnographic Methods: The State of the Art
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…
Conference Review: AnthropologyCon 2017
AnthropologyCon 2017 transpired across multiple sites at the annual American Anthropology Association meeting in Washington, DC. The first event included a workshop on “Anthropology of/through Games” on Thursday afternoon, November 30, where participants learned about, brainstormed on, designed, and prototyped table-top games under the tutelage of Dr. Anatasia Salter, a game designer and games scholar from the University of Central Florida. In th…
Environmental justice in Central and Eastern Europe
This chapter demonstrates the complexity of environmental justice in the context of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The region was characterized by state socialism based on a centrally planned economy and rapid industrialization with varying degrees of political openness, and a common historical experience with fascist and Stalinist dictatorships. Historically, under state socialism, environmentalism emerged first in the form of state-led natur…
Ethnographic Apps/Apps as Ethnography
Today, people nearly everywhere are experiencing multiple events through the medium of mobile apps: Social networking platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, are now accessed through sm
Visual and Multimodal Approaches in Anthropological Participatory Action Research
Participatory Visual and Digital Research in Action
This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors’ Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how innovative visual and digital research techniques are being used in various field projects in health care, environmental policy, urban planning, education and youth development, and heritage management settings. These methodologies produce rich visual and narrative data guided by participant interests and priorities, key too…
Cultivating Civic Ecology
A bstract Urban gardens are a form of self-provisioning, leisure and activist practice that is cropping up in cities around the world (Mougeot 2010). We present the history and contemporary terrain of Lisbon’s urban gardens and discuss the cultural values that gardeners attach to the practice of growing food in interstitial urban spaces. We present initial findings from our research with an urban gardeners’ association as it attempts to transform…
The Anthropology of Postindustrialism: Ethnographies of Disconnection
Diversity-Grown: Participatory Evaluation of a Community Gardening Initiative through Photovoice
The evaluation of community initiatives can be as creative as the initiatives themselves. In Tallahassee, Florida, an event for the urban agricultural food movement employed Photovoice as a method for assessment of the event. Photovoice was selected for its ready application in participatory processes, where the data itself is collected and interpreted by community, thereby resulting in empowerment of community residents. In this case, youth were…
Visual Interventions and the “Crises in Representation” in Environmental Anthropology: Researching Environmental Justice in a Hungarian Romani Neighborhood
Participatory visual research, or "visual interventions" (Pink 2007) allow environmental anthropologists to respond to three different “crises of representation”: 1) the critique of ethnographic representation presented by postmodern, postcolonial, and feminist anthropologists, 2) the constructivist critique of nature and the environment, and 3) the “environmental justice” critique demanding representation for the environmental concerns of commun…
A Photovoice Participatory Evaluation of a School Gardening Program through the Eyes of Fifth Graders
In the springtime, fifth grade students at the Williamsburg Elementary School in rural Western Massachusetts ask to snack on sorrel and chives from the school garden, between planting potatoes and building a shade structure for their outdoor classroom. They are members of the first cohort of the curriculum-integrated program initiated by Fertile Ground, a grassroots organization in western Massachusetts. The childrenâ s delight in the fresh green…
Using Photovoice to Investigate Environment and Health in a Hungarian Romani (Gypsy) Community
Kl ́ra: Everyone dumps their trash next to our neighborhood. The town government says that we're dumping it ourselves. That might be true in some cases, but if you really look at these piles, there's packaging for brands that people in our neighborhood don't use
Visualizing Change: Participatory Digital Technologies in Research and Action
New visual technologies are changing the ways that anthropologists do research and opening up new possibilities for participatory approaches appealing to diverse audiences. Participatory digital methodologies featured in this special issue include digital storytelling, Photovoice, interactive multimedia as new media ethnography, participatory digital archival research, and participatory geographic information systems (GIS). Other methodologies in…
Sustainability and Communities of Place
Wild Capitalism" and "Ecocolonialism: A Tale of Two Rivers
The development and pollution of two rivers, the Danube and Tisza, have been the site and subject of environmental protests and projects in Hungary since the late 1980s. Protests against the damming of the Danube rallied opposition to the state socialist government, drawing on discourses of national sovereignty and international environmentalism. The Tisza suffered a major environmental disaster in 2000, when a globally financed gold mine in Roma…
Citizens or Consumers: Environmentalism and the Public Sphere in Postsocialist Hungary
Much of the most vital activism of the post-1989 environmental movement in Hungary addresses the development of consumer culture and the expansion of transnational corporations in East-Central Europe. In actions against McDonald's conquest of the urban landscape and the ubiquitous presence of advertisements for transnational corporations, activists contrast cherished notions of decentralization and local control with the emergence of an imperiali…
Wild Capitalism" and "Ecocolonialism: A Tale of Two Rivers
The development and pollution of two rivers, the Danube and Tisza, have been the site and subject of environmental protests and projects in Hungary since the late 1980s. Protests against the damming of the Danube rallied opposition to the state socialist government, drawing on discourses of national sovereignty and international environmentalism. The Tisza suffered a major environmental disaster in 2000, when a globally financed gold mine in Roma…
Ethnographic Apps/Apps as Ethnography
Today, people nearly everywhere are experiencing multiple events through the medium of mobile apps: Social networking platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, are now accessed through sm
Ethnographic methods: Training norms and practices and the future of American anthropology
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…
Citizens or Consumers: Environmentalism and the Public Sphere in Postsocialist Hungary
Much of the most vital activism of the post-1989 environmental movement in Hungary addresses the development of consumer culture and the expansion of transnational corporations in East-Central Europe. In actions against McDonald's conquest of the urban landscape and the ubiquitous presence of advertisements for transnational corporations, activists contrast cherished notions of decentralization and local control with the emergence of an imperiali…
Visual and Multimodal Approaches in Anthropological Participatory Action Research
Citizens or Consumers: Environmentalism and the Public Sphere in Postsocialist Hungary
Much of the most vital activism of the post-1989 environmental movement in Hungary addresses the development of consumer culture and the expansion of transnational corporations in East-Central Europe. In actions against McDonald's conquest of the urban landscape and the ubiquitous presence of advertisements for transnational corporations, activists contrast cherished notions of decentralization and local control with the emergence of an imperiali…
Wild Capitalism" and "Ecocolonialism: A Tale of Two Rivers
The development and pollution of two rivers, the Danube and Tisza, have been the site and subject of environmental protests and projects in Hungary since the late 1980s. Protests against the damming of the Danube rallied opposition to the state socialist government, drawing on discourses of national sovereignty and international environmentalism. The Tisza suffered a major environmental disaster in 2000, when a globally financed gold mine in Roma…
Sustainability and Communities of Place
A Photovoice Participatory Evaluation of a School Gardening Program through the Eyes of Fifth Graders
In the springtime, fifth grade students at the Williamsburg Elementary School in rural Western Massachusetts ask to snack on sorrel and chives from the school garden, between planting potatoes and building a shade structure for their outdoor classroom. They are members of the first cohort of the curriculum-integrated program initiated by Fertile Ground, a grassroots organization in western Massachusetts. The childrenâ s delight in the fresh green…
Using Photovoice to Investigate Environment and Health in a Hungarian Romani (Gypsy) Community
Kl ́ra: Everyone dumps their trash next to our neighborhood. The town government says that we're dumping it ourselves. That might be true in some cases, but if you really look at these piles, there's packaging for brands that people in our neighborhood don't use
Visualizing Change: Participatory Digital Technologies in Research and Action
New visual technologies are changing the ways that anthropologists do research and opening up new possibilities for participatory approaches appealing to diverse audiences. Participatory digital methodologies featured in this special issue include digital storytelling, Photovoice, interactive multimedia as new media ethnography, participatory digital archival research, and participatory geographic information systems (GIS). Other methodologies in…
Visual Interventions and the “Crises in Representation” in Environmental Anthropology: Researching Environmental Justice in a Hungarian Romani Neighborhood
Participatory visual research, or "visual interventions" (Pink 2007) allow environmental anthropologists to respond to three different “crises of representation”: 1) the critique of ethnographic representation presented by postmodern, postcolonial, and feminist anthropologists, 2) the constructivist critique of nature and the environment, and 3) the “environmental justice” critique demanding representation for the environmental concerns of commun…
The Anthropology of Postindustrialism: Ethnographies of Disconnection
Diversity-Grown: Participatory Evaluation of a Community Gardening Initiative through Photovoice
The evaluation of community initiatives can be as creative as the initiatives themselves. In Tallahassee, Florida, an event for the urban agricultural food movement employed Photovoice as a method for assessment of the event. Photovoice was selected for its ready application in participatory processes, where the data itself is collected and interpreted by community, thereby resulting in empowerment of community residents. In this case, youth were…
Participatory Visual and Digital Research in Action
This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors’ Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how innovative visual and digital research techniques are being used in various field projects in health care, environmental policy, urban planning, education and youth development, and heritage management settings. These methodologies produce rich visual and narrative data guided by participant interests and priorities, key too…
Cultivating Civic Ecology
A bstract Urban gardens are a form of self-provisioning, leisure and activist practice that is cropping up in cities around the world (Mougeot 2010). We present the history and contemporary terrain of Lisbon’s urban gardens and discuss the cultural values that gardeners attach to the practice of growing food in interstitial urban spaces. We present initial findings from our research with an urban gardeners’ association as it attempts to transform…
Environmental justice in Central and Eastern Europe
This chapter demonstrates the complexity of environmental justice in the context of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The region was characterized by state socialism based on a centrally planned economy and rapid industrialization with varying degrees of political openness, and a common historical experience with fascist and Stalinist dictatorships. Historically, under state socialism, environmentalism emerged first in the form of state-led natur…
Ethnographic Apps/Apps as Ethnography
Today, people nearly everywhere are experiencing multiple events through the medium of mobile apps: Social networking platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, are now accessed through sm
Visual and Multimodal Approaches in Anthropological Participatory Action Research
Conference Review: AnthropologyCon 2017
AnthropologyCon 2017 transpired across multiple sites at the annual American Anthropology Association meeting in Washington, DC. The first event included a workshop on “Anthropology of/through Games” on Thursday afternoon, November 30, where participants learned about, brainstormed on, designed, and prototyped table-top games under the tutelage of Dr. Anatasia Salter, a game designer and games scholar from the University of Central Florida. In th…
Teaching Ethnographic Methods: The State of the Art
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…
Ethnographic Methods Training Norms and Practices and the Future of American Anthropology
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…
Ethnographic methods: Training norms and practices and the future of American anthropology
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…
Value Propositions Provide a Roadmap for Teaching Doctoral Students How to Develop Research Proposals
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…
Fieldschool Is Not What It Used to Be: Innovations in Teaching and Learning Ethnographic Methods
This article examines how teaching and learning ethnographic methods could be adapted to contemporary times, considering shifting understandings of ethnography and practical attention to the experiences of new fieldworkers. Using the European Field Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a case study, we identify several pedagogical techniques, including a cohort-based learning model, peer mentoring, and group blogging, to s…
Teaching and Learning Participatory Methods in Anthropology: Recognizing and Overcoming Significant Obstacles
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…
Sociology (18 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (7 works) · Citizen journalism (6 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · World Wide Web (6 works) · Law (5 works)