Wilkinson College Graduate Student Workshop
Hide Behind the Engine Block: Researching in Dangerous Environments
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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