Inquiry & Research: The 5 Inquiry Pathways: Autoethnography

Ethnographic and auto-ethnographic study with field notes, interviews, and photos explored the challenges and opportunities for practitioners of Nigerian Yoruba Ifa/Orisa practice in the U.S.

Qualitative study using performance ethnography, autoethnography, arts-based research, and historical research, culminating in a full-length play (based on fieldwork in conflict zones in the Middle East), including audience discussion groups and participation post-show events.

Arts-based and autoethnographic study was composed through poetic performance ethnography developed from Puerto Rican diasporic students' autobiographical reflections on their lives -- a study of Puerto Rican diaspora in higher education.

Autoethnography and arts-based research using reflective writing focused on the researcher's four years of leading a team of music therapists in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country savaged by brutal inter-ethnic wars.

Autoethnography focused on the mind-sets of settlers and their society in perpetuating the trans-historical trauma and injustice resulting from foundational acts of dispossession.

Performing arts based performance ethnography and autoethnography of a bi-cultural journey with a performance and art installation at an artist residency in Egypt. The exhibit included site-specific works, curatorial tours, discussion panels, workshops, community outreach, and a performance series, documented by videos and photos.

Arts-based dissertation is expressed through performance ethnography and autoethnography describing the qualities of dialogue revealed through the felt experience of Native and non-Native American music composers engaged in a dialogue through music composition.

Arts-based study examined and described the lived experience of a storyteller composing and performing a tale on issues of peace, justice, and social change. The researcher, a professional story teller, phenomenologically explored the essence of the story teller's creative process by creating a story telling work based on a travel diary written during war time in Israel.