Tuesday23Apr 2019

Wilkinson College Graduate Student Workshop

Hide Behind the Engine Block: Researching in Dangerous Environments

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 7:00 p.m. - 9:50 p.m. PST
2019-04-23 19:00 2019-04-23 21:50 America/Los_Angeles Wilkinson College Graduate Student Workshop Go to event listing for more details: https://events.chapman.edu/61189 Laura Scudder Conference Room, Roosevelt Hall Allison DeVries devries@chapman.edu

RSVP is required

Graduate Students can enroll in this workshop through my.chapman.edu. Course number is GUS 530.

Laura Scudder Conference Room, Roosevelt Hall

Students

are invited to attend.

Tuesday April 23, 2019 7-9:50PM

Hide Behind the Engine Block: Researching in Dangerous Environments

Laura Scudder Conference Room, Roosevelt Hall 121

 

Drawing from personal experience, Professors Murphy and Zoellner will discuss best practices on researching in dangerous environments.

 

Crystal Murphy, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Dr. Murphy's research focuses on conflict and post-conflict development, political economy and sustainability topics, and advocates qualitative methods for policy oriented scholarship. She has worked for and carried out research with NGOs, UN agencies and financial institutions in East Africa. Her recent projects explore micro-credit and cash transfer programs in South Sudan. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom Zoellner, Associate Professor, Department of English

Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Tom Zoellner is the author of five nonfiction books, including Train. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book An Ordinary Man, and his book Uranium won the 2011 Science Writing Award from The American Institute of Physics. Tom has worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and The Arizona Republic, and as a contributing editor for Men’s Health magazine. He is now an associate professor of English at Chapman University and the politics editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Tom is a founding member of the journalism collective Deca, and a teacher in the OpEd Project. Tom has received residencies from the Mesa Refuge, The Millay Colony for the Arts, the Corporation at Yaddo, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship

 

You can contact the event organizer, Allison DeVries at devries@chapman.edu or (714) 997-6752.

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