https://www.ethnolab.org/new-page daily 1.0 2025-07-16 https://www.ethnolab.org/general-2 daily 0.75 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/1655167715112-4Z0LBTU825RFYIHQ4Y5C/Hannah+Efua+Odoom+pic.jpg Who We Are https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/1655167753690-CTMNEZZ8FBU9CF6IUXNT/tempImageTshy6V.gif Who We Are https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/f55db3a5-b982-400c-be1f-dfeed1fc92da/Iceland+Me+carhart.jpg Who We Are - Anastasia Hudgins, PhD I am a practicing anthropologist in Philadelphia, and the founding principal at EthnoLab where I have a diverse portfolio of local and international clients. Together with my clients, we collaborate to advance the health and well-being of individuals, communities and populations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/d4592abf-bac8-4310-807a-5ec8cbfd37ad/Dana%2BMaster2.jpg Who We Are - Dana Master Producer, Video Editor Dana Master is an Emmy Award winning producer/video editor with 20+ years of experience working in both independent and broadcast media. She believes in the importance of empowering individuals of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds with the knowledge and tools of electronic media production to keep media-based conversations more democratic and inclusive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/2d9becf1-e188-4e55-a57b-bbb1ed0b8809/Charlie+Raboteau+portrait.JPG Who We Are - Charlie Raboteau Charlie Raboteau is a filmmaker and photographer who specializes in highlighting hyper-local stories that focus on people doing work in their communities. Charlie provides visual and audio content for clients to showcase their work and passion in the best and truest light possible in order to build social, economic, and cultural capital. His aim is to help foster positive change and draw attention to the culture and resources that make Philadelphia such a creative and vibrant city. Samples of Charlie’s work and his contact information can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/93fbefac-fb37-40fe-8a18-2a8c5074fc72/IMG_5004.jpeg Who We Are - Zipora Schulz Zipora Schulz is a working artist and art teacher in Philadelphia. Through her creativity and flexible approach to collaboration, the pro bono video project to promote democratic involvement in national politics was completed and made available to the public. She worked on the fly with other artists to conceptualize and create storyboards for the video, and then brought those images to life during the filming of the white-board video project. See the team’s work here. Zipora lives in Philadelphia with her family of humans, dogs and cats. https://www.ethnolab.org/contact-3 daily 0.75 2021-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/1618955204645-A5CUOJP0R03PG8D5ZNO6/DSCN3065.jpg Contact - Contact us Interested in learning more, brainstorming, or collaborating? Contact us at: anastasia dot hudgins at gmail dot com phone: II I V - VIII II III - nulla IX III II https://www.ethnolab.org/approaches-3 daily 0.75 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/0e99c2a1-69d5-4e3b-93dc-a5b22aa2e73f/Philly+refugee+horizontal.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/b9d28560-46dc-4180-8e91-fce8a81ad99c/Bantey+Srea+midwife.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/00967511-a5fc-425a-b3c4-e712629d3dab/IMG_0762.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/794cdcba-e6e9-43f4-a06c-8e64c38fd507/IMG_2663.png https://www.ethnolab.org/portfolio-1 daily 0.75 2026-02-25 https://www.ethnolab.org/portfolio-1/project-six-tlpph monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/2ec17057-c9ca-4642-868f-4ee0ac4d41da/Vernoca+saying.JPG Portfolio - Collaborative Filmmaking - Where Art Lives Vernoca Michael, collaborator on "Where Art Lives," a 2018 Scribe Video Precious Places film about the Paul Robeson House and the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/f21957f1-80f5-4401-b0be-5a25c38789c3/Precious+places+camden+man.jpeg Portfolio - Collaborative Filmmaking - Resilient Roots Led by Long Luu, VietLead members interview an elder at the intergenerational Camden community garden for the Scribe Video Precious Places film "Resilient Roots Community Garden." This 2019 video highlights how garden members resist the impacts of gentrification on land use, education and food apartheid through community engagement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/722b2021-d4d8-4dbc-9162-fb292a2c1d34/Precious+Places+native+america+2.jpeg Portfolio - Collaborative Filmmaking - Reclaiming Coaquannock Brujo de la Mancha interviews Vaughnda Two Feathers Hilton for the Precious Places film "Belmont Grove: Reclaiming Coaquannock." This film discusses how the history of land ownership of Penn's Woods deprived the Leni Lenape people and others the opportunity for federal recognition. The film recalls how the Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park was the site of communal gatherings of celebration for people of native descent, and how people continue to meet despite the lack of access to the site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/10637119-65f1-46e7-8f71-f5fe8ee0b5ac/Screenshot+2025-07-16+at+7.19.47%E2%80%AFPM.png Portfolio - Collaborative Filmmaking - The 411 on USAID EthnoLab created this video in response to the call by the Society for Medical Anthropology asking its members to engage in public discourse about the health consequences of shuttering USAID. This video seeks to educate viewers on the scope of USAID’s responsibilities, how Americans at home are affected by its closure, and how viewers can take action. https://www.ethnolab.org/portfolio-1/project-five-brb7r monthly 0.5 2022-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/607dc22adf07b03b79679e72/c5d3e533-0263-452b-91da-4b835838a480/Screen+Shot+2022-12-09+at+4.01.51+PM.png Portfolio - Ecology and Community Well-Being - Make it stand out Frack pond in Western Pennsylvania. Photo credit Anastasia Hudgins. Subjectivity Undermined: Fracking’s Future in a Coal Mining Past - In this project I follow a community of long-term renters whose trailers are adjacent to a newly established fracking site. Part of a special issue on fracking in Culture & Agriculture 2013, the article explores community members’ fears of this invasive form of energy extraction based on their memories of the effects of coal mining on the health and well being of family members. Framing Fracking: Private Property, Common Resources, and Regimes of Governance - This publication in Journal of Political Ecology is based on the authors’ (Anastasia Hudgins, PhD and Amanda Poole, PhD) policy ethnography examining the discourses of natural gas development in Western Pennsylvania designed to manufacture consent through expressions of political power. We focus on the overlapping spheres of influence between the state and capital to dissect techniques of governance as they operate at the level of civil society. Data collection from fieldwork and discourse analysis, particularly focused on discourse about recent legislation to regulate the booming natural gas industry in Pennsylvania, reveals the ways in which industry proponents attempt to corral public opinion to the goal of extracting and amassing capital. We analyze how industry actors try to gain and draw from the authority and approval of the state in those efforts. In turn, the state uses its socially sanctioned authority to reframe water, land, air, community, health, and self around a paradigm that interprets those as sources of profit. This case study examines how, under neoliberalism, the state organizes knowledge on the topic of fracking such that the balance of power shifts further out of democratic reach. “I care more about this place, because I fought for it”: exploring the political ecology of fracking in an ethnographic field school - After leading an Ethnographic Field School at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania the authors (Amanda Poole and Anastasia Hudgins) published an article that captures the range of the students’ projects. This paper draws on that experience to accomplish two goals: to open questions about the impacts of hydraulic fracturing on people’s relationships to the environment in western Pennsylvania, and to explore the pedagogical possibilities and limitations of teaching through publicly engaged projects rooted in political ecology. The history of local land use, whether coal mining and its consequences or the creation of conservation zones, captures the imagination of differing publics and influences their interpretation of energy extraction, particularly its acceptability and risks. At the same time, the encounter with Marcellus Shale has prompted people to explore, question, and redefine their relationships to place and to the legacy of coal in the community. This paper details the possibilities and pitfalls encountered in ethnographic projects by student researchers designed to explore and prompt public dialogue about people’s changing relationships to land and water. 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