I was so lucky to be able to work with Professor Marie-Pierre Moreau on our collaborative project on carers in higher education. This was collaborative comics-based research at its best, generously funded by Advance HE. And, best of all, in addition to the gallery shows …
https://www.americananthropologist.org/insights/galman I wrote an admittedly gorgeous piece that appeared in a recent issue of American Anthropologist. Here it is, along with so many other lovely things. https://www.americananthropologist.org/online-content/insights-forms-of-engagement I worked incredibly hard on this piece and was delighted that it finally made it into print. And …
I have been working on this paper in my head for years, because it is the story of both how I believe stories can and should work when we are doing research with vulnerable or otherwise marginalized or even hidden populations, and also the story …
I had the pleasure of supervising Dr. Kimberly Pfeifer’s PhD at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a large part of which was the foundation of her new groundbreaking volume from Routledge. She describes the book in her own words, below: “The idea for this …
A brand new article is UP in online preview in the Journal of Family Issues! Katz-Wise, S. L., Galman, S. C., Friedman, L. E., & Kidd, K. M. (2021). Parent/caregiver narratives of challenges in raising transgender and/or nonbinary youth. Journal of Family Issues. DOI: 10.1177/0192513X21104448 …
I went to Copenhagen some years ago to give a paper about mermaids. This was made all the more magical because I gave this paper in the city of everyone’s favorite mermaid, surrounded by other people interested in mermaids (such as the amazing Megan Dunn), …
Of course when Anthropology News announced a special issue on Graphic Ethnography I had to throw my hat into the proverbial ring. After all, it’s kind of what I do as a comics-based researcher. I was thrilled that they accepted my piece, and that they …
Thank you so much, Grinnell College, for this honor. As I said in my wee acceptance speech, what Grinnell gave me is at the center of all the work I have done and all the work I will ever do. Grinnell taught me to find …
It’s Trans Day of Visibility. Just yesterday my daughter had her hormone blocker implant topped up. No big deal at all. But as we were leaving the surgeon said, “I’m so glad you don’t live in Arkansas. Then this wouldn’t be allowed.” So very right. …
That’s right. It can be done. And it is awesome. Your friendly neighborhood cartoonist and comics-based researcher (CBR) here to tell you how to use the visual arts in general–and comics specifically–to analyze data. That’s what I’m able to share in my chapter, graciously included …
