The Community-Based PhD: Complexities and Triumphs of Conducting CBPR

by Sonya Atalay (Editor), Alexandra C McCleary (Editor)

Overview

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) presents unique ethical and practical challenges, particularly for graduate students. This volume explores the nuanced experience of conducting CBPR as a PhD student. It explains the essential roles of developing trust and community relationships, the uncertainty in timing and direction of CBPR projects that give decision-making authority to communities, and the politics and ethical quandaries when deploying CBPR approaches—both for communities and for graduate students.

The Community-Based PhD brings together the experiences of PhD students from a range of disciplines discussing CBPR in the arts, humanities, social sciences, public health, and STEM fields. They write honestly about what worked, what didn’t, and what they learned. Essays address the impacts of extended research time frames, why specialized skill sets may be needed to develop community-driven research priorities, the value of effective relationship building with community partners, and how to understand and navigate inter- and intra-community politics.

This volume provides frameworks for approaching dilemmas that graduate student CBPR researchers face. They discuss their mistakes, document their successes, and also share painful failures and missteps, viewing them as valuable opportunities for learning and pushing the field forward. Several chapters are co-authored by community partners and provide insights from diverse community perspectives. The Community-Based PhD is essential reading for graduate students, scholars, and the faculty who mentor them in a way that truly crosses disciplinary boundaries.

Contributors: Anna S. Antoniou, Amy Argenal, Sonya Atalay, Stacey Michelle Chimimba Ault, Victoria Bochniak, Megan Butler, Elias Capello, Ashley Collier-Oxandale, Samantha Cornelius, Annie Danis, Earl Davis, John Doyle, Margaret J. Eggers, Cyndy Margarita García-Weyandt, R. Neil Greene, D. Kalani Heinz, Nicole Kaechele, Myra J. Lefthand, Emily Jean Leischner, Christopher B. Lowman, Geraldine Low-Sabado, Alexandra G. Martin, Christine Martin, Alexandra McCleary, Chelsea Meloche, Bonnie Newsom, Katherine L. Nichols, Claire Novotny, Nunanta (Iris Siwallace), Reidunn H. Nygård, Francesco Ripanti, Elena Sesma, Eric Simons, Cassie Lynn Smith, Tanupreet Suri, Emery Three Irons, Arianna Trott, Cecilia I. Vasquez, Kelly D. Wiltshire, Julie Woods, Sara L. Young
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816545339
Publisher:	University of Arizona Press
Publication date:	03/15/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Sonya Atalay is a professor of anthropology at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has two decades of experience using community-based participatory methods to conduct research in partnership with Indigenous communities. She is the author of Community-Based Archaeology: Research with, by, and for Indigenous and Local Communities.

Alexandra McCleary is the tribal archaeologist for the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians in Highland, California. She received her PhD from University of California, Berkeley, and her BA at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Cover Title page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction / Alexandra McCleary and Sonya Atalay PART I . MANAGING INSTITUTIONAL EXPECTATIONS 1. Queering Community-Based Participatory Research / Elias Capello 2. Rethinking "Giving Back": Incorporating Community Work in Academia / Samantha Cornelius 3. Contra-Research: Navigating the Paradoxes of Funding Community-Based Projects / Cecilia I. Vasquez 4. A Few More Cups of Coffee: Beginning Community-Engaged Research and Seeing It Through / R. Neil Greene 5. Developing Partnerships along the Collaborative Continuum: PhD Experiences with Community-Oriented Archaeology in Canada / Meloche, Nichols, and Simons PART II. MULTIVOCALITY I N COMMUNITIES 6. Facing the Unexpected: Allures, Anxieties, and Faults of Investigating Community Participation in Massaciuccoli Romana (Italy) / Francesco Ripanti 7. Listening to Traditions at the Arboretum Chinese Quarters / Lowman and Low-Sabado 8. Risk Mitigation in Community-Based Archaeological Projects: The Importance of Power Sharing in the Spirit of Reciprocity / Alexandra McCleary 9. Nana ka Maka; Ho‘olohe ka Pepeiao; Pa‘a ka Waha: Decentering the Self, Recentering the Community / D. Kalani Heinz PART III. BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS 10. Collaborating for First Foods: Supporting the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe through Archaeological Research / Anna S. Antoniou and Earl Davis 11. Step-by-Step Process of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Projects for Graduate Students: Lessons from Engaging with CBPR in Interdisciplinary Counselor Education / Tanupreet Suri and Arianna Trott 12. Establishing Long-Term Relationships for Collaborative Ethnographic Research / Cassie Lynn Smith 13. Centering Relationships in the Dissertation: Conducting Participatory Action Researchas a Way to Build Relationships Outside of the Academy / Amy Argenal 14. Using Protocols to Guide Community-Based Research: A Personal Journey / Julie Woods PART IV. LETTING COMMUNITIES TRULY LEAD 15. Graduate Research Serving Apsáalooke Communities / Doyle, Martin, Young, Lefthand, Three Irons, and Eggers 16. The Significance of Predissertation Field Seasons in Community-Based Participatory Research / Victoria Bochniak 17. The Messy Reality of a Community-Based PhD: Disassembling Archaeological Practice with and for the Ngarrindjeri Nation / Kelly D. Wiltshire 18. Indigenizing Academic Minds to Work with Community: A Joint Reflection on the Everyday Work of Building Good Research Relationships / Nunanta (Iris Siwallace), Kaechele, and Leischner 19. Collaboration and Sensitivity: Working with Tribal Historic Preservation Officers in Southern New England / Alexandra G. Martin PART V. HOLDING DIFFERENT ROLES 20. From THPO to PhD: Indigenous Archaeologies, Shifting Social Positioning, and the Gray Space Between Emic and Etic Approaches / Bonnie Newsom 21. Queens Speak: A Youth Participatory Action Research Project Exploring Critical Posttraumatic Growth Among Young People and Myself / Stacey Michelle Chimimba Ault 22. Taniuki (Our Language) Project: Community-Based Participatory Active Research (CBPAR) in Language Revitalization / Cyndy Margarita García-Weyandt 23. Balancing Expectations and Obligations: Finding Your Way in Community-Based Archaeology / Elena Sesma PART VI. ENSURING ROBUSTICITY OF RESEARCH WITHIN COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH METHODS 24. Pushing for Participation: Understanding Facilitators and Barriers to Incorporating the Tenets of Community-Based Participatory Research into Every Step of the Doctoral Dissertation Process / Megan Butler 25. My Interpretation in Change: Giving Back to Indigenous Communities in Two Different Contexts / Reidunn H. Nygård 26. Field Notes f om Engaged Research / Annie Danis 27. Lessons and Observations from Engaging in CBPR as a Graduate Student in a STEM Discipline / Ashley Collier-Oxandale 28. Managing Emotion in Community-Based Archaeological Practice / Claire Novotny Conclusion. Complexities, Triumphs, Missteps, and Joys of Conducting Community-Based PhD Research: What We Learn from Graduate Student Experiences / Sonya Atalay Contributors Index

Editorial Reviews

A refreshing and essential set of perspectives on community-engaged research from the next generation of archaeologists and anthropologists. This is not a ‘how-to’ volume but more a ‘this is what happens when . . . ,’ and that is the real value here—shifting from theory to practice, and the lessons learned in the process.”—George Nicholas, editor of Being and Becoming Indigenous Archaeologists

“I applaud this book’s focus on graduate students’ everyday lived experiences when doing social justice and activist research with communities as well as the intricacies, accomplishments, failures, and pleasures of doing this type of research while trying to finish your PhD. I appreciate this book’s potential to be useful to graduate students and junior faculty in community archeology.”—Natalia Deeb-Sossa, editor of Community-Based Participatory Research: Testimonios from Chicana/o Studies

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