ABOUT
The NSF CAMP Community (CAMP Community) is a collection of 700+ scholars, students, and practitioners around the world who are advancing research methods in anthropology through scholarship, teaching, and practice. Our work aims to nurture a community in which new ideas and junior scholars can flourish. We take a “big tent” approach to understanding methods in anthropology – we welcome all methods in the tent. This big tent approach helps scholars to work across long-standing divides in anthropology by building more innovative, integrative, and collaborative methods practices.
All are invited to join the CAMP Community by signing up here (subscription instructions below), and all are invited to participate in the activities outlined below. Methods are for everyone!
CAMP Activity | How can I participate? | How does it benefit me? | |
CAMP International | With global partners, online & in-person events bring together CAMP members to discuss the future of methods teaching and practice. | Lead an event & report this on your CV as academic service Participate for networking & learning | |
CAMP Listserv | CAMP members ask for advice and discuss research methods, publicize new methods, and announce events and job openings. See more: CAMP Community Listserv Guidelines* | Get answers to methods questions & find jobs Showcase your new methods work, events & hires | |
CAMP YouTube | Our YouTube channel hosts (1) the CAMP Global Curriculum, (2) CAMP Community Curriculum, and (3) Mentor Minute. To contribute your lectures, see the CAMP Community Curriculum Guidelines**. | Learn methods from CAMP faculty, or embed the lectures in your classes. Contribute lectures & report this on your CV as academic service | |
CAMP Events at AAA & SfAA | CAMP hosts panels, roundtables, and other informal events. | Join or lead an event & report the presentation or session leadership on your CV Participate for networking & learning | |
Collaborative Research | We support collaborative research on methods, teaching & practice, often mentoring junior scholars. | Collaborate & publish research on anthropological methods | |
CAMP Advisory Board | The advisory board consists of invited methodologists who help guide the vision of CAMP. | Help shape CAMP. Report this on your CV as academic service | |
CAMP Faculty | The CAMP faculty consists of invited methodologists who help teach and mentor CAMP fellows. | Teach & mentor CAMP Fellows. Report this on your CV as academic service | |
Education Anthropology Research | CAMP supports a research program in education anthropology designed to develop cutting-edge innovations in methods teaching. See the CAMP resources for info. | Formerly known as Cultural Anthropology Methods, Bernard and Wutich are co-editors of the journal Field Methods. We encourage submissions from CAMP CoP members. | |
Website | methods4all.org shares updates on future meet-ups, opportunities, & collaborations, making the Community of Practice accessible to anthropologists globally. | Stay updated about our CAMP community |
*CAMP Community Listserv Guidelines
The CAMP Community Listserv is a place for students, scholars, and practitioners to engage in dialog about research methods. There are currently 700+ members. We welcome posts to the listserv that: ask for advice about methods, publicize job openings, announce methods events, or share new methods publications. The listserv is moderated. Only posts related to research methods scholarship, teaching, and practice are allowed. We ask that Community members engage in respectful and professional conversation. Any messages that contain unprofessional, inappropriate, or harmful content will not be posted. Repeated instances of unprofessional behavior will result in removal from the listserv community.
**Invitation: Contribute to the CAMP Community Curriculum
We invite all CAMP Community members to submit self-recorded videos of their best methods lecture. Lectures should run 8-12 minutes and provide step-by-step instructions on how to execute a single method. See examples of the CAMP Global Curriculum on YouTube. Follow the format of this this PPT template and adhere to best practices for PowerPoint design. Upload your lecture to YouTube and submit this request form. Lectures that adhere to these guidelines will be incorporated into the CAMP Community Curriculum playlist.
To subscribe to our listserv:
- Go to https://lists.asu.edu/scripts/wa-ASU.exe?INDEX
- Search METHODS in the search bar
- Click on methods
- At the “login required” pop up, go to log in
- At log in, click on register password – follow instructions
- A confirmation email will be sent – CHECK SPAM FOLDER
- Once registered go back to listserv and log in. This will take you to the methods subscribe page.
- Click on the 3 barred menu button
- Click subscribe or unsubscribe
- From there they can subscribe.
You can also send an email to [email protected]. Leaving the subject line blank, type “Subscribe Methods” in the body of the email, and send.
To unsubscribe:
- Log into the ASU Listserv here
- Click Subscriptions
- Click on METHODS
- Click on the menu button in the far right
- Click “subscribe/unsubscribe”
- Choose unsubscribe.