I research, teach, train and engage people in the art of cultural documentation and ethnographic fieldwork.  An inelegant way of putting it is that I am interested in the process from "soup to nuts," that is from, conception to inception to production to preservation of documentary materials - audio, film, photographs. Its all a moving target as I have found out ( somewhat painfully) in that the approach, impetus, means, methods and especially technology that underlies the process is prone to shifts, moves and changes -- and all with astonishing rapidity.  The notion I keep in close proximity is that teachers and trainers are also at the same time pupils and trainees.

Location

Baltimore, MD

Disciplines

• Digital Humanities
• Film Studies
• Music and Musicology
• Performing Arts
• Visual Arts
• Anthropology
• Area Studies
• Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies
• Political Science
• Information Science and Technology
• Library and Museum Studies
• Public Affairs

Affiliation

American Folklore Society, Society of American Archivists, Society for Applied Anthropology, Federal Audio-Visual Digitization Initiative (FADGI) working groups

Website

http://afnet.org, www.loc.gov/folklife