Ethnographic Research Steering Committee
Meet the steering committee for the Ethnographic Research certificate program.
Burcu Baykurt
Burcu Baykurt examines the social and cultural implications of digital technologies, with a particular focus on infrastructures, governance, and inequalities.
![Burcu Baykurt](/social-sciences/sites/g/files/ijdqth196/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-01/DSC00435.jpg?h=07e8681f&itok=e1mJfvJe)
Aline Gubrium
Aline Gubrium is a medical anthropologist with expertise in sexual and reproductive health inequities.
![Headshot of Aline Gubrium](/social-sciences/sites/g/files/ijdqth196/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-03/Aline%20Gubrium.png?h=1e66e246&itok=U6wKTDdD)
Julie Hemment
Professor of Anthropology
Julie Hemment is an anthropologist and ethnographer who works in postsocialist Russia.
![Julie Hemment](/social-sciences/sites/g/files/ijdqth196/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2022-12/hemment.jpg?h=4626e670&itok=a0MVLn_X)
Elizabeth Krause
Elizabeth Krause conducts immersive, collaborative, and participatory research to de-essentialize capitalism and illuminate local-global dynamics.
![Headshot of Elizabeth Krause](/social-sciences/sites/g/files/ijdqth196/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-04/Elizabeth%20Krause.png?h=1e66e246&itok=Rbik2csr)
Timothy Pachirat
Timothy Pachirat is a Professor of Political Science.
![Timothy Pachirat](/social-sciences/sites/g/files/ijdqth196/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-01/IMG_1175.png?h=4626e670&itok=g-YqgCcU)
Fareen Parvez
Fareen Parvez's current research looks at predatory lending and its relationship to other forms of exploitation in low-income neighborhoods in India.
![Fareen Parvez](/social-sciences/sites/g/files/ijdqth196/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-01/parvez2016.png?h=e46eee89&itok=Z9MLGZF5)
Sally Pirie
Sally Pirie's research interests include the anthropology of childhood and gender studies.
![Headshot of Sally Campbell Galman](/social-sciences/sites/g/files/ijdqth196/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-03/Sally%20Campbell%20Galman.png?h=1e66e246&itok=b0CG1dZg)
Svati Shah
Svati Shah is an anthropologist and queer feminist scholar who works on questions of sexuality, gender, migration and caste capitalism in India.
![Headshot of Svati Shah](/social-sciences/sites/g/files/ijdqth196/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-03/Svati%20Shah.png?h=1e66e246&itok=Zqws5Avx)
Regine Spector
Regine Spector's research examines New England energy politics and electric grid reform, and the climate implications of our energy and water use practices.
![Regine A. Spector](/social-sciences/sites/g/files/ijdqth196/files/styles/1_1_s/public/2023-01/20180915_191245%20%282%29%20very%20small%20.jpg?h=4626e670&itok=6Xaow_fS)