**This event is open to those of the Stanford community ONLY**
In this roundtable, we aim to demystify a central component of the Anthropology PhD – the fieldwork period. We invite graduate students recently returned from field-sites over the world to reflect on their experiences. We plan to discuss the surprises, joys, and challenges of fieldwork, pivoting one’s project, navigating ‘work-life balance’, writing in the field, connecting pre-fieldwork to fieldwork, and transitioning back into the department.
The session will begin with recent fieldwork returnees sharing a short introduction to their project and answering the question ‘What’s one thing you wish you knew before starting fieldwork’. We will then open into group discussion on all things fieldwork-related (attendees are welcome to share their experiences as well). We aim to foster a space for frank, practical discussion on the realities of fieldwork in a graduate program and to support ongoing dialogue on this.
The roundtable participants are Paras Arora, Rachael Healy, Teathloach Wal, Zoe Vangelder, and Aaron Hopes. Their field-sites include Delhi, Belfast, Gambia River and the Sine-Saloum, Mexico, and Okinawa.The roundtable will be moderated by Inika Murkumbi.
