Critical Ethnography Theory, Method, and Praxis

D. Soyini Madison (Ph.D., Northwestern University; M.A., University of Illinois; B.A., Chicago State University) is considered to be one of the top scholars in performance studies and in critical ethnography. Her published works focus on performance ethnography and the intersections between gender and critical race theory. Her teaching centers on myth and popular culture, performance ethnography, performance of literature for social change, and the political economy of performance. Madison is a Fulbright Scholar and recently completed a visiting lectureship at the University of Ghana. She also recently returned from the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in Belagio, Italy where she was writing her current project focusing on staging/performing local debates surrounding human rights and traditional religious practices as these debates are influenced by the global market and national development. She has taught a graduate course in performance ethnography for fourteen years.She is both nationally and internationally known for her published work and her performances, and she is the recipient of numerous awards from the National Communication Association.Madison, D. Soyini is the author of 'Critical Ethnography Theory, Method, and Praxis', published 2005 under ISBN 9780761929161 and ISBN 0761929169.