# COVID-19 Resources **COVID-19 Resources for Ethnographers:** Institutional Review Board Guidelines and Responses: Please regularly check your university’s COVID-19 Guidelines for Human Subject Research. Here are links to Boston-area IRB Offices: [Boston College IRB](/cei/); [Boston University IRB](https://www.bu.edu/researchsupport/profile/institutional-review-board-irb/); [Harvard University IRB](https://cuhs.harvard.edu/news/questions-about-covid-19-and-your-research?admin_panel=1); [MIT IRB](/%20https://couhes.mit.edu); [Northeastern IRB](https://research.northeastern.edu/hsrp/); [UMASS-Boston](https://www.umb.edu/orsp/research_committees/irb); and [UMASS-Amherst IRB](https://www.umass.edu/research/compliance/human-subjects-irb). COVID-19 Funding Opportunities: Please see the [National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20052/nsf20052.jsp) special grant for COVID-19 research. Also see [CU Boulder’s Natural Hazards Center](https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/covid-19) for funding opportunities. COVID-19 Crowdsourced Online Resource: [“Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1clGjGABB2h2qbduTgfqribHmog9B6P0NvMgVuiHZCl8/edit)," a resources on alternative qualitative data collection, for instance, by using digital methods or phone interviews. **On Ethnography in the Time of COVID-19:** Arregui, Anibal Garcia. 2020. "[Viralscapes. The Bodies of Others after COVID-19.](https://allegralaboratory.net/viralscapes-the-bodies-of-others-after-covid-19/)" Allegra Lab. March 31.Lin, Kevin and Elyse D. Pham. 2020. "[Research at the Intersections of COVID-19 Crisis Response](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/4/30/aapi-covid-project/)." April 30.Lowe, Celia. 2017. "[Viral Ethnography: Metaphor for Writing Life](http://www.environmentandsociety.org/sites/default/files/2017_i1_lowe_0.pdf)." Rachel Carson Center Perspectives 1:91-96.Pacheco-Vega, Raul. 2020. "[Fieldwork in the Time of COVID-19: Doing Ethnography During a Pandemic](http://www.raulpacheco.org/2020/03/fieldwork-in-the-times-of-covid-19-doing-ethnography-during-a-pandemic/)." March 17.Parry, Marc. 2020. "[As Coronavirus Spreads, Universities Stall Their Research to Keep Human Subjects Safe](https://www.chronicle.com/article/As-Coronavirus-Spreads/248274)." March 18.Sue, Kimberly and Nick Iacobelli. 2020. "[Our COVID Museum: Notes from Physician-Anthropologist on the Frontlines of an Evolving Pandemic in Seattle and New York.](http://somatosphere.net/2020/our-covid-museum-notes-from-physician-anthropologists-on-the-frontlines-of-an-evolving-pandemic-in-seattle-and-new-york-city.html/)" April 7. **Complementary Data Sources for Ethnographers:** [Academic Publishers](https://media2.proquest.com/documents/unlimitedaccess-participatingpublishers.pdf) that have made E-books freely available through Proquest Ebook Central during COVID-19 epidemic [Digital US archives](https://oedb.org/ilibrarian/250-plus-killer-digital-libraries-and-archives/): list of over 250 State and local archives [Digital archives worldwide](https://instr.iastate.libguides.com/c.php?g=208309&p=3357797): extensive list covering digital archives around the world Global list of [online newspaper archives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives) [Harvard Digital Lab for the Social Sciences](http://dlabss.harvard.edu/) (DLABSS): free online experimental and survey research for Harvard affiliates [Harvard Maps Collection](https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/scanned-maps/about/collection-overview): high-resolution scanned maps collection (openly accessible to everyone), including links to digitized collections at other institutions [Landgrid](https://landgrid.com/blog/covidresearch): U.S. nation-wide parcel database, freely available for COVID-19 researchers [Social Explorer](http://www.socialexplorer.com/): tract-level and up American Community Survey, Census data, and more, making cross-tabs and map-making **Exemplary Ethnographic Work (Also) Relying on Alternative Data Sources:** Childress, Herb. 2019. [The Adjunct Underclass: How America's Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their MIssion](https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo26910456.html) \[interviews, memoir, national data\]. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Hunter, Marcus Anthony. 2013, [Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed America](https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199948130.001.0001/acprof-9780199948130) \[historical ethnography, archival data\]. Oxford, UK: University of Oxford Press. Hunter, Marcus Anthony and Zandria F. Robinson. 2018. [Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life](https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520292833/chocolate-cities) \[oral history, popular culture, literature\]. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Klinenberg, Eric. 2002. [Heatwave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago](https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo20809880.html) \[ethnography, public records, oral history\]. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Lane, Jeffrey. 2019. [The Digital Street](https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780199381265.001.0001/oso-9780199381265) \[ethnography, digital ethnography\]. Oxford, UK: University of Oxford Press. Reyes, Victoria. 2019. [Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines](https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28732) \[ethnography, historical data, legal documents\]. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Sullivan, Esther. 2018. [Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans' Tenuous Right to Place](https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520295667/manufactured-insecurity) \[ethnography, historical and spatial analysis\]. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. **Exemplary Ethnographies Dealing with Disasters, Epidemics, Public Health:** Farmer, Paul. [AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame.](https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520248397/aids-and-accusation) Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Hunter, Mark. 2010. [Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa](https://iupress.org/9780253222398/love-in-the-time-of-aids/). Bloomington, IN: Indian University Press. Hyde, Sandra Teresa. [Eating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China](https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520247154/eating-spring-rice). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Kamat, Vinay. 2013. [Silent Violence: Global Health, Malaria, and Child Survival in Tanzania](https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/silent-violence). University of Arizona Press. Klinenberg, Eric. 2002. [Heatwave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago](https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo20809880.html). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. MacPhail, Theresa. [The Viral Network: A Pathography of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic](https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801479830/the-viral-network/). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Nading, Alex M. 2014. [Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement](https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520282629/mosquito-trails). Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Porter, Natalie. 2019. [Viral Economies: Bird Flu Experiments in Vietnam](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo41210584.html). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Wyrod, Robert. 2016. [AIDS and Masculinity in the African City: Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood.](https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520286696/aids-and-masculinity-in-the-african-city) Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Compiled by [Aaron Benavidez](https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/aaron-benavidez), [Sharon Cornelissen](https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/faculty-and-staff/sharon-cornelissen), and [Vivian Shaw](https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/vivian-shaw). Last Updated 04/26/2020.