Academic Politics and Pedagogy Seminar Series: Research without Fieldwork with Anna Guasco
Dr Anna Guasco
Dr Anna Guasco will virtually join the CUSAS Academic Politics and Pedagogy Seminar Series on 6 March to discuss her article, “On an ethic of not going there” (2022), and broader issues in non-fieldwork research practice in historically fieldwork-focused disciplines. In addition to Dr Guasco’s article, attendees may also wish to reading the following; however, no reading is compulsory for the seminar, and all are encouraged to attend.
- Günel, G. and Watanabe, C. (2023) "Patchwork Ethnography," American Ethnologist
- Liboiron, M. (2021) "Firsting in Research," Discard Studies
- Guasco, A. (2022) "Problems of Place: The Trouble with Fieldwork, or Troubling Embodiment,” Environmental History Now
- Leyland, J. et al. (2022) "Classics Revisited: ‘Muddy glee’ - What geography fieldwork means in the current moment,” Area
Dr Anna Guasco is an interdisciplinary researcher, educator, and writer working across environmental history, geography, political ecology, and critical ocean studies. Dr Guasco earned her PhD in Geography at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and is now the Visiting Assistant Professor of Marine Studies at Oregon State University. Her research, teaching, and community engagement interests center around past, present, and future relationships between environment and society, aiming to contribute to shaping more socially just and ecologically resilient futures. Her first book project examines narratives, histories, and justice issues circulating around the migration and conservation of gray whales along the North American Pacific Coast.
The Academic Politics and Pedagogy Seminar Series brings together academics and students to engage anthropologically with questions about the politics and practices of academia. We hope to engage with existing literature while also turning an anthropological eye to non-anthropological interventions.