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Welcome back to In the Thick of It. On this podcast, we talk with researchers about how they do what they do, one method at a time. This is a project of the Public Ethnography Lab, housed in the Department of Anthropology at American University. We are a center focused on making ethnographic work matter beyond academia. This is our second season, and it builds on conversations that began at the Public Anthropology Conference held in November 2025. Throughout the season, we will be in conversation with presenters from the conference who are using ethnography and qualitative methods across a wide range of fields. In the episodes, we will dive into the behind-the-scenes of their work by exploring the choices, challenges, and creativity that go into qualitative methods. My name is Eva, and I am your host.
Immigration to the DMV after COVID-19. In this episode, we talked with Dr. Ernesto Castañeda. He is the Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies and the Immigration Lab and a Full Professor at American University in Washington, DC. He is a prolific author of academic articles and books. He received an MA and a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University and a BA in interdisciplinary studies from the University of California, Berkeley. His insights and commentary are frequently featured in public talks, policy discussions, and major media outlets, making him a prominent voice in public debates on immigration and Latino issues. His analyses have appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Hill, CityLab, Bloomberg, AP, Newsweek, Time, The Daily Beast, the BBC, NPR, HuffPost, and in outlets around the world. He is a frequent guest on Noticias Univision, Telemundo, CNN en Español, NTN24, RTVE24, and France24.
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"Study And Relax" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/