Urban Ethnography Lab

The Urban Ethnography Lab was established in 2012 and is housed on the 3rd floor of the CLA building contiguous with the Sociology Department’s offices at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Urban Ethnography Lab was established in 2012 in the Sociology Department at the University of Texas at Austin.  It is administered by the Population Research Center and directed by Sociology Professor Javier Auyero.

The Urban Ethnography Lab organizes a variety of events, including ethnography seminars, qualitative analysis software workshops, a brown bag series for graduate students and faculty, and a speaker series entitled “Ethnography Meets Demography.”  It also awards summer fellowships to advanced graduate students to conduct fieldwork.