FIELDWORK MENTORING PROGRAM
Sponsored by SEM’s Section for the Status of Women (SSW) and the Gender and Sexualities Taskforce (GST)
About the Program:
The SSW/GST Fieldwork Mentoring Program aims to provide resources and support for ethnographers in confronting the various situations that arise during fieldwork as a result of the researcher’s gender and/or sexuality. Through this program, researchers in the beginning stages of a fieldwork project are paired with scholars with pertinent experience on topics spanning logistical concerns, social etiquette, self (re)presentation, personal safety, and confronting harassment or abuse. Our hope is that this program will enable scholars at various stages of research to support one another and talk candidly about these important dimensions of fieldwork.
Upon completion, please email this form to .
Questions? Comments? Please contact us!
Program Overseer: Corinna Campbell (). The Program Overseer responsible for maintaining and strengthening the program as a whole. (S)he works closely with the other Mentoring Program Officers to ensure the integrity, efficacy, and efficiency of the Mentoring Program.
Program Coordinator: Ellen Koskoff (). The Program Coordinator is in charge of reviewing submitted information sheets and pairing mentors with mentees.
Tech Chair: Margaret Cayward
Publicity: Katharine Stuffelbeam
MENTEE INFORMATION SHEET
Full Name*:
Email*: Alternative email:
Address*:
Phone number:
(An asterisk * indicates required information.)
1. How would you prefer to communicate with a mentor?
A. Exclusively by email.
B. Email is my preferred method, but I would consider other options.
C. By the preference(s) listed below:
2. Location and site-specific aspects of your projected fieldwork (e.g. climate, population density, multi-sited, migrant, online):
3. Projected duration of your upcoming fieldwork:
4. Population-specific aspects of your fieldwork (e.g. a focus on a particular age group, class, religious affiliation, gender):
5. Academic Interests:
6A. In the space below, please comment on any issues of specific concern, or aspects of fieldwork that you are most interested in discussing with your appointed mentor.
6B. Please number the following statements in order of importance (1 being most important):
That my assigned mentor has experience in the geographic region of my projected research.
That my assigned mentor has experience with the specific population of my research. (Please specify.)
That my assigned mentor has dealt with this specific issue:
In signing your name below, you are indicating that you acknowledge and will act in compliance with the following statement:
I understand that I am required to keep personal information about my mentor in strict confidence. In turn, I can expect that information I share as part of this exchange will not circulate. Any violations of this confidence will be taken seriously and should be reported to the SSW/GST Mentoring Program Coordinator, the SSW/GST Mentoring Program Overseer, or the acting Chair(s) of the Section for the Status of Women or the Gender and Sexualities Taskforce.
I understand that the information I provided will be included in the mentoring program database, accessible to the Mentoring Program Coordinator and the Program Overseer.[**]
We ask that you consider allowing us to use your information in gathering statistical data about the program, so we can make others within the Society for Ethnomusicology aware of prominent concerns related to gender and/or sexuality-based dimensions of fieldwork. Any statistical data will be circulated without individuals’ names. (Please underline your choice.)
I give my permission for the information I provided here to be circulated anonymously for statistical purposes.
I request that the information provided here NOT be used for statistical purposes.
Signed Date
[**] The Program Overseer will only access this information in the event that the coordinator is unavailable or unable, at that time, to perform these duties. Both the Program Coordinator and the Program Overseer are required to keep all information submitted on information sheets in strict confidence or as allowed by the consent given.