International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education devoted to the Border Studies Program

Dr. Joanna (Gypsy) Swanger, Resident Director of the Border Studies Program since 1999, was named guest editor of a Special Issue of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (Jan-Feb. 2002). The issue is devoted to the program and is titled The Border Studies Program: Ethnography as Pedagogy in Undergraduate Education.

There are two articles by Dr. Swanger: Laboring in a borderless world; the threat of globalization, and The critical pedagogy of ethnography in the Border Studies Program.

Several students who participated on the program in fall 2000 contributed articles to the publication based on the ethnographies they wrote as part of their supervised field studies during the program. The contributors, in addition to Dr. Swanger, include:

• Jonathan Barnes, Earlham College graduate majoring in Latin American Studies with a focus on Economics.
• Samuel Byrd, Oberlin College graduate where he earned High Honors in History for his research on Mexican folk and popular culture.
• Lisa Kadel, Earlham College graduate majoring in Peace and Global Studies and Latin American Studies
• Laura Kent-Monning, Oberlin College graduate majoring in Latin American Studies and Spanish.
• Tony Klevan, University of California at Santa Cruz graduate majoring in Sociology.
• Heather Schwartz, Oberlin College graduate majoring in African-American Studies with a concentration in History.
• Leah Staub, Earlham College graduate majoring in Human Development and Social Relations.

QSE International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

Volume 15 Number 1
January-February 2002

Editors: James Joseph Scheurich, Angela Valenzuela
Copyright 2002 Taylor and Francis Limited.

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