IF: InterView Forum
Founding Editorial Collective
& International Advisory Board


The editorial collective and advisory board share a commitment to grounded, rigorous fieldwork and feel strongly that ethnographic fieldwork must have a central place in the development of anthropological understanding. Our shared goal in founding this journal is to further the elaboration of the ways of doing ethnography, to explore the conceptual and practical basis of fieldwork, to raise issues regarding the ethics of ethnographic research,
to provide a practical mode for delivering ethnographic materials into classrooms, and to enlarge understanding of the importance of ethnographic fieldwork in cultural anthropology and inter-disciplinary cultural studies.

Founding Editorial Collective
Peter Benson (Harvard University)
Quetzil Castañeda (Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology)
Edward F. Fischer (Vanderbilt University)

International Advisory Board
Pertii Alasuutari (University of Tampere, Finland)
Debbora Battaglia (Mt. Holyoke College)
Juan Castillo Cocom (Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology)
Patricia Fortuny (CIESAS, Mérida, Mexico)
Angela Garcia (Harvard University)
Thomas Blom Hansen (Yale University)
Eeva Jokinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Miriam Kahn (University of Washington)
Christopher Kelty (Rice University)
David MacDougall (Australian National University)
George Marcus (Rice University)
Maple Razsa (Harvard University
Timothy J. Smith (University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign)
Claudia Strauss (Pitzer College)
Noelle Stout (Harvard University)
Lucien Taylor (Harvard University)
Stephen Tyler (Rice University)
Alaka Wali (Field Museum)
Geoffrey White (University of Hawaii)
Richard Wilk (Indiana University)
Harry Wolcott (University of Oregon)