Books
2011
Visual Sociology: An
Introduction. Douglas Harper. Routledge Publishers (in
press).
2009
The Italian Way: Food and
Social Life. Douglas Harper and Patrizia Faccioli. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
2009
Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys. Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
2006
Good Company: A Tramp
Life. Boulder: Paradigm. Douglas Harper. (revised and expanded
third edition).
2003
The Cultural Study of
Work. Douglas Harper and Helen Lawson, editors. Boulder: Rowman
Littlefield. 2004 Outstanding Title,
designation by the American Library Association.
2001
Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture. Douglas Harper.
University of Chicago Press. Scholarly Achievement
Award, North Central Sociological Association and Collier Award, Society for
Visual Anthropology.
1998
Mondi Da Vedere: Verso una sociologia piu visuale. Patrizia
Faccioli and Douglas Harper, editors. Milan:
FrancoAngeli.
1994
Cape Breton, 1952: The
Photographic Vision of Timothy Asch. Douglas Harper, editor.
University of Southern California: Ethnographics Press.
1993
Eyes Across the Water, vol.
II: Essays on Visual Sociology and Anthropology. Robert
Boonzajer Flaes and Douglas Harper, editors. Amsterdam: Het
Spinhuis Press.
1987
Working Knowledge: Skill and
Community in a Small Shop. Douglas Harper. University of
Chicago Press. Paperback edition, University of California Press,
1992.
1982
Good Company. Douglas
Harper. University of Chicago Press. Second edition translations:
Good Company: Un sociologo tra I
vagabondi. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 1999 in Italian; Les Vagabonds du Nord-Ouest
Américain. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998 in French.
Articles, chapters, films
2011
“The First Step to Recovery.” (a 60 minute documentary
film, in process.) Douglas Harper and Margaret Patterson.
2010
“Seeing Switzerland: A Cross Cultural Conversation.” Douglas Harper
and Ricabeth Steiger. Contexts 9 (1),
50-60.
2008
“The Role of the Artist: Oliviero Toscani.” Douglas Harper. Villa Rossa Voice 16, 4-5.
(non-refereed).
2007
“Finding Simmel on the Hong Kong Subway.” Douglas Harper. Social Psychology Quarterly 70 (1), 5-6.
2006
“Forward.” Douglas Harper. Communities without
Borders, Bacon, David. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
xi-xii. (non-refereed).
2006
“Cultural Studies and the Photograph.” Douglas Harper. In Peter Hamilton, editor, Visual Research Methods.
Sage Press, 211-248.
2006
“Lessons on the Road: The life of a hobo.” Douglas Harper. In John Caughey, editor, Negotiating Cultures and
Identities. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
(non-refereed; excerpt).
2006
“Work and Occupations.” Douglas Harper. In Clifton D. Bryant, editor, Twenty-First Century Handbook
of Sociology. Sage Publications, 218-226.
2006
“Urban Spaces and Panoramic Vision.” Douglas Harper. Contexts 5
(1), 46-53.
2006
“Seeing Race Through the Lens.” Caroline Knowles and Douglas
Harper. Ethnic and Racial
Studies 29 (3), 512-529.
2005
“Visually Narrating Post-Colonial Lives: Ghosts of war and empire.”
Douglas Harper, Caroline Knowles and Pauline Leonard. Visual Studies 20 (1),
4-15.
2005
“What's New Visually?” Douglas Harper. In Normal Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, editors, Handbook of Qualitative
Research, third edition. Beverly Hills and London: Sage,
747-762.
2005
“Landscapes of Belonging.” Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper. Network:
Newsletter of the British Sociological Association 91: 3-7.
(non-refereed).
2004
“L'analisi visuale della salute e della
malattia.” Douglas Harper and Patrizia Faccioli. In Costantine Cipolla, editor, Manuale di sociologia della
salute, vol II, Ricerca. Milano: FrancoAngeli,
257-276.
2004
“Wednesday-Night Bowling: Cultures of a rural working class.”
Douglas Harper. In Caroline Knowles and Paul Sweetman, editors, Imagining the Social
Landscape. London: Routledge, 93-114.
2004
“Visual Methods.” Douglas Harper. The Sage Encyclopedia of Social
Science Research Methods. London: Sage.
2004
“An Ethnographic Gaze: Scenes in the anthropological life of
Timothy Asch.” Douglas Harper. In Douglas Lewis, editor, Timothy Asch and Ethnographic
Film. Newark NJ: Gordon and Breach Publishers,
17-56.
2003
“Framing Photographic Ethnography: A case study.” Douglas Harper.
Ethnography 4 (2),
241-266.
2003
“Goodbye Willie: In upstate New York, the mechanics of mourning.”
Douglas Harper. DoubleTake 30,
10-11.
2002
“Changing Works: Eliciting accounts of past and present dairy
farming.” Douglas Harper. Contexts 1(1), 52-58.
(excerpt)
2002
“Visual Methods in the Social Sciences.” Douglas Harper. In Neil
Smelser and Paul Bates, editors, International Encyclopedia of
the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam: Elsevier
Science.
2002
“Talking about Pictures: A case for photo elicitation.” Douglas
Harper. Visual Studies
17 (1), 21-34.
2001
“Quattrecento anni di sociologia visuale.” Douglas Harper. In
Patrizia Faccioli, editor, Altre Parole. Milan:
FrancoAngeli, 17-44.
2000
“Requiem for the Small Dairy: Agricultural change in
northern New York.” Douglas Harper. In Harry Schwarzweller, and A.
Davidson, editors, Research
in Rural Sociology and Development: Dairy industry
restructuring vol. 9. Stamford, CT: JAI Press,
13-45.
2000
“‘Small, Silly Insults,' Mutual Seduction and Misogyny: The
interpretation of Italian advertising signs.” Douglas Harper and Patrizia Faccioli. Visual
Sociology 15, 32-55.
2000
“The Image in Sociology: Histories and issues.” Douglas Harper. Journal des anthropologues
80-81: 143-160.
2000
“Fotografien als Sozialwissenschaftliche Daten.” Douglas Harper. In
Uwe Flick, E. Kardorff, I. Stienke, editors, Qualitative
Sozialforschung. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 402-415.
reprinted: in Uwe Flick,
Ernst von Kardorff and Ines Steinke, editors, Qualitative Forschung: Ein
Handbuch. Rowohlts Enzyklopadie, 2007.
2000
“Reimagining Visual Methods: Galileo to Neuromancer.” Douglas
Harper. In Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, editors. Handbook of Qualitative
Research, second edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications,
717-732.
1998
"An Argument for Visual Sociology." Douglas Harper. In Jon Prosser,
editor, Image Based
Research: A sourcebook for qualitative researchers. London:
Falmer Press. 24-41.
1997
"Visualizing Structure: Reading surfaces of social life." Douglas
Harper. Qualitative
Sociology 20 (1), 57-77.
1997
"Give and Take among the Rural Poor." Douglas Harper and Gilbert
Gillespie. International
Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 17 (3/4),
103-130.
1996
"Milton Rogovin: Portraits of social change." Douglas Harper. Visual Sociology 11 (1),
50-52.
1996
"Seeing Sociology." Douglas Harper. American Sociologist 27
(3), 69-76.
1995
"Labor Exchange on Traditional Dairy Farms: Clues for a sustainable
future." Douglas Harper and Thomas Lyson. Research in Rural Sociology and
Development. Volume 6, 193-214.
1995
"Communities of Scholarship in the Electronic Age." Douglas Harper.
In Joseph Moxley, editor, The Politics and Processes of
Scholarship. Greenwood Press, 133-143.
1994
"Diversified Rural Livelihood Strategies Among Low-Income Farm
Families in the Northeast." Gilbert Gillespie, Thomas Lyson and
Douglas Harper. Final
Report, Rural Economic
Policy Program. The Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and
the Ford Foundation.
1993
“On the Authority of the Image: Visual sociology at the
crossroads.” Douglas Harper. in Norman Denzin, and Yvonna Lincoln,
editors, Handbook of
Qualitative Research. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications,
403-412.
1992
"A Graduate Course in Visual Sociology." Douglas Harper. In Diana
Papademas, editor, Visual
Sociology and Using Film/Video in Sociology Courses. American
Sociological Association, 92-95.
1992
“Small N's and Community Case Studies.” Douglas Harper. In Howard
Becker and Charles Ragin, editors, What is a Case? Oxford
University Press, 139-158.
reprinted: The Sociology
of Rural Communities, Volume I. edited by Graham
Crow, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1996,
208-230.
1991
“On Methodological Monism in Rural Sociology.” Douglas Harper. Rural Sociology 56 (1),
70-88.
1991
“Visual Sociology at the University of Amsterdam: Notes and
reflections.” Douglas Harper. Visual Sociology Review 6
(1), 34-40.
1991
“Sharing Labor on the Family Farm: Views across a generation.”
Douglas Harper. The
Quarterly of St. Lawrence County Historical Association 36 (1),
12-19.
1990
“Interpretive Ethnography: From ‘authentic voice' to ‘interpretive
eye.'” Douglas Harper. In Robert Boonzajer Flaes, editor, Eyes Across the Water: The
Amsterdam Conference on Visual Anthropology and Sociology.
Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 33-43.
1990
“Howard S. Becker: Portrait of an intellectual's imagination.” N.
Ben-Yehuda, R. Brymer, S. Dubin, D. Harper, R. Hertz, W. Shaffir.
Sociological Inquiry 59
(4), 467-490.
1988
“Visual Sociology: Expanding sociological vision.” Douglas Harper.
The American Sociologist
19 (1), 54-70.
reprinted: Blank, Grant,
editor. Practical
Applications in Research and Work, Transaction Publishers,
1988, 81-99.
1988
“Who is this Man? Studying the work of a rural mechanic.” Douglas
Harper. Society 26 (1),
77-84.
1987
“The Visual Ethnographic Narrative.” Douglas Harper. Visual Anthropology 1 (1),
1-19.
1987
“Portraying Bricolage.” Douglas Harper. Knowledge and Society: Studies
in the sociology of culture past and present, vol. 6, 209-232.
reprinted: Current
Sociology 34 (3), 24-45.
1984
‘Meaning and Work: A study in photo elicitation.” Douglas Harper.
International Journal of
Visual Sociology 2, 20-43.
reprinted: in Alan
Bryman, editor. Qualitative
Research 2 (of the SAGE Benchmark in Social Research Methods
series), London: Sage, 2007.
1983
“Ernie's Sawmill.” Douglas Harper and Stephen Papson, co-directors.
A 16 mm, 20 minute ethnographic film. Screenings: International
Conference on Visual Sociology, Windsor, Ontario; 22nd Annual
Documentary Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1979
“The Road.” Douglas Harper. In Howard Becker, editor, Exploring Society
Photographically. University of Chicago Press,
86-93.
1979
"Life on the Road." Douglas Harper. In Jon Wagner, editor, Images of Information: Still
photography in the social sciences. Beverly Hills: Sage
Publications, 25-42.
1978
“At Home on the Rails: Ethics in a photographic research project.”
Douglas Harper. Qualitative
Sociology 1 (2), 62-77.
Reviews
2010
“Righteous Dopefiend,” by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg. American Journal of
Sociology 115 (6), 1895-1897.
2010
“Fixing Work and the Work of Repair” (A Symposium on Matthew B.
Crawford's Shop Class as Soul Craft: An Inquiry into the Value of
Work) review essay. Contemporary Sociology 39:
249-252.
2009
“The Tastes of Places,” (review essay). Society 46 (3),
286-288.
2009
“Cinema and Fascism: Italian film and society, 1922-1943, by Steven
Ricci. Visual Studies 24
(1), 88-89.
2007
“Visual Anthropology: Essential method and theory,” by Fadwa El
Guindi. Visual Studies
22 (1), 97-99.
2002
“Borderland: A Midwest journal,” by Richard Quinney. Visual Studies 17 (2),
172-173.
2001
“Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the hermeneutics of
the visual,” edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell. Contemporary Sociology 30
(2), 163-164.
2001
“Bedlam on the Streets,” by Caroline Knowles. Society 38 (5),
92-93.
1997
"Eldoret: An African poetics of technology," by Richard M.
Swiderski. Technology and
Culture 34 (2), 505-508.
1995
"The End of the Line: Lost jobs, new lives in postindustrial
America," by Kathryn Marie Dudley. Contemporary Sociology 25
(5), 619-620.
1994
"Down on Their Luck," by David Snow and Leon Anderson. Contemporary Sociology 23
(1), 42-43.
1993
“Analyzing Visual Data,” by Michael S. Ball and Gregory W. H.
Smith. Contemporary
Sociology 22 (4), 619-620.
1993
“Exoticism Reconsidered,” review essay of Photography and
Anthropology, by Elizabeth Edwards. Science 260,
1184-1185.
1991
“Photography: A middle brow art,” by Pierre Bourdieu. American Journal of
Sociology 97 (2), 573-575.
1990
“Images of History: Nineteenth and early twentieth century Latin
American photographs as documents,” by Robert Levine. Contemporary Sociology 19
(2), 275-276.
1988
“Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists,” by Anselm Strauss. American Journal of
Sociology 92 (2), 417-419.
1987
“The Faces of Homelessness,” by Marjorie Hope, and James Young. Qualitative Sociology 10
(4), 404-406.
1986
“A Country Auction,” by Jay Ruby, et al. Humanity and Society 10,
239-242.
1986
“Rituals,” by Rosalyn Soloman. Visual Sociology Review 1
(2), 27-29.
1984
“The Survival of the Counterculture: Ideological work and everyday
life among rural communards,” by Bennett Berger. Qualitative Sociology 7,
182-184.
Editorials
Visual Sociology. 1998. 13(1), 3-4.
Visual Sociology. 1997. 12(2), 3-4.
Visual Sociology. 1997. 12(1), 3.
Visual Sociology. 1996. 11(2), 3-7.
Visual Sociology. 1996. 11(1), 3-4.
Visual Sociology. 1995. 10(1-2), 3-4.
Visual Sociology. 1994. 9(1), 3.
Visual Sociology. 1993. 8(2), 3.
Visual Sociology. 1993. 8(1), 1.
Visual Sociology. 1992. 7(2), 1-2.
Visual Sociology. 1991. 6(2), 3-4.
Visual Sociology Review. 1991. 6(1), 1-2.
Visual Sociology Review. 1990. 5(2), 1-2.
Visual Sociology Review. 1990. 5(1), 1-3.
Visual Sociology Review. 1989. 4(1), 1-2.
Visual Sociology Review. 1988. 3(2), 1-3.
Visual Sociology Review. 1988. 3(1), 2-3.
Visual Sociology Review. 1987. 2(2), 2.
Visual Sociology Review. 1987. 2(1), 1.
Visual Sociology Review. 1986. 1(2), 3-5.
Visual Sociology Review. 1986. 1(1), 2-3.
Keynote addresses
2007
“Memories of Totalitarianism: How Italians remember Mussolini.”
EUROQUAL: Conference on
Qualitative Visual Data Analysis. European Academy,
Berlin.
2005
“Photographic Tales of Family Foodways: A case study from northern
Italy.” Keynote address: Agriculture and Human Values,
Visualizing Food and Farm, Portland, Oregon.
2004
“Is There Hope for the Family Farm?” Keynote address: New York State Historical
Association Annual Meetings, Saratoga Springs, New
York.
2003
“Remembering Community-Based Agriculture.” Keynote address, Barn Again: The History of
Barns in America, a touring program sponsored by the NEH,
Barnstable, Wisconsin.
2000
“Visions of Community.” Keynote address: Pennsylvania Sociological
Association. Annual Conference, Duquesne University.
2000
“Every Picture Tells a Story.” Keynote address: Beeld voor Beeld
(international documentary film festival), Amsterdam.
1997
“An Ethnography of Homelessness.” Keynote Address: Everybody's Child: Educating
Florida's Homeless Children and Youth, Florida A and M
University.
Conference presentations
2010
“The Problem of Seeing Food.” International Visual Sociology (IVSA) Annual
Meetings, University of
Bologna, Italy. July.
2010
“Author Meets Critics: The Italian Way.” Eastern Sociological
Association Annual Meetings, Boston, MA, March.
2009
“Fascist Semiotics in Rome's Foro Italico.” International Visual Sociology
(IVSA) Annual Meetings, University of Carisle,
United Kingdom. July.
2009
“Structure and Improvization in the Italian Meal.” AFHV/ASFS Annual Meetings,
State College, PA. April.
2008
“Studying Invention: Imagery and the creative process. Oral History Association Annual
Meetings, Pittsburgh, PA. October.
2008
“Visual Field Work and Photo Elicitation.” Douglas Harper. Dimensioni visuali del mondo
sociale e ricerca sociologica qualitativa: La formalizzazione di
procedure visuali di indagine. Universita' degli studi di
Macerata, Italy. April.
2007
“The Biography of an Historical Era: Rural counter-culture in the
70s and 80s.” IVSA Annual
Meetings, New York University, NYC.
2006
“Journey to Predappio: On the memory of fascism.” Douglas Harper
and Alessandro Mengozzi. IVSA Annual Meetings,
Urbino, Italy.
2005
“Teaching Daughters and Sons to Cook: The Transfer of Power in the
Italian Family.” Douglas Harper. North Central Sociological Association Annual
Meetings, Pittsburgh, PA, October.
2005
“Embodiments of Race Among Expatriates and Their Others.” Caroline
Knowles and Douglas Harper. IVSA Annual Meetings,
Trinity College, Dublin, Ire, July.
2004
“Documentary Photography and Visual Sociology: new developments.”
Douglas Harper. Beeld voor
Beeld (international documentary film festival), Amsterdam,
Netherlands, June.
2004
“Migrant Women in Hong Kong: maids and matrons.” Caroline Knowles
and Douglas Harper. IVSA
Annual Meetings, San Francisco, California, August.
2004
“Cultural Studies and the Photograph.” Douglas Harper. American Sociological
Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, California,
August.
2003
“Visually Narrating Postcolonial Lives.” Caroline Knowles and
Douglas Harper. IVSA Annual
Meetings, Southampton, UK, July.
2003
“Encounters with Food.” Douglas Harper. Being Here/Being There:
Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries. University
of Pennsylvania, November.
2003
“Understanding Social Change Visually.” Douglas Harper. Conference on Qualitative
Methods, University of Bologna, April.
2003
“Author Meets Critics: Changing Works: Visions of a Los
Agriculture.” Douglas Harper. North Central Sociological
Association Annual Meetings, March.
2002
“Food and Italian Families.” Douglas Harper and Patrizia Faccioli.
IVSA Annual Meetings,
Santorini, Greece, July.
2002
“Piazza Maggiore: the sociology of a small urban space.” Douglas
Harper. Conference on
Fieldwork in Contemporary Society. UCLA, June.
2001
“The Social Organization of Tailgating.” Douglas Harper and Charles
Hanna. IVSA Annual
Meetings, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August.
2001
“Policy Implications of an Ethnography of Homelessness.” Douglas
Harper. Society for the
Study of Symbolic Interaction Annual Meetings, Aneheim, CA,
August.
2000
“The Pragmatics of Seeing.” Douglas Harper. Conference on Visual
Evidence, Oxford University, September.
1999
“Documentary Photography: A sociological interpretation.” Douglas
Harper. American
Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Chicago,
August.
1999
“Cognition and Visual Perception.” Douglas Harper. Conference on Cognition and
Culture, Rutgers University, April.
1999
“Images of Women in Italian Advertising.” Douglas Harper and
Patrizia Faccioli. IVSA
Annual Meetings, University of Belgium, Antwrep,
July.
1998
"Imagining Bologna: A cultural conversation." Douglas Harper. IVSA Annual Meetings,
University of Louisville, July.
1998
"Everett Hughes and the Sociology of Work." Douglas Harper. Colloque franco-américain
L'ecole de Chicago, Hier et Aujourd'hui. Université de
Versailles-Sant-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris, April.
1997
"Deconstructing the SONJ Archive." Douglas Harper. IVSA Annual Meetings,
Boston, July.
1996
"Visualizing Social Structure." Douglas Harper. Eastern Sociological
Association Annual Meetings, Boston, March.
1996
"Seeing Sociology.” Douglas Harper. IVSA Annual Meetings,
Bologna, Italy, July.
1995
"Give and Take Among the Rural Poor." Douglas Harper and Gilbert
Gillespie. American
Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Washington, DC,
August.
1995
"The Certainty of Flawed Assumptions." Douglas Harper IVSA Annual Meetings,
Windsor, Ontario, July.
1994
"On the Authority of the Image." Douglas Harper. ISA World Congress,
Bielefeld, Germany, July.
1994
"Constructing a Future for an Academic Society." Douglas Harper. ISA World Congress,
Bielefeld, Germany.
1994
"Electronic Photography and the Future of Visual Sociology."
Douglas Harper. IVSA Annual
Meetings, Chicago, July.
1993
“The Public life of a European City: Native definitions.” Douglas
Harper. IVSA Annual
Meetings, Rochester, New York, July.
1992
“Photographic Memory.” Douglas Harper. American Sociological
Association, Annual Meetings, Pittsburgh, PA,
August.
1992
“John Collier and Photo-Elicitation: The genesis and development of
a method.” Douglas Harper. American Anthropology
Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA, November.
1992
“Stories of Farm Labor.” Douglas Harper. Eyes Across the Water, II: IVSA
Annual Meetings, University of Amsterdam, July.
1991
“Changing Works: Personal histories of labor and community.”
Douglas Harper. American
Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio,
August.
1991
“The Village Smith and the Garage Mechanic.” Douglas Harper. Society for the History of
Science and Technology Annual Meetings. University of Wisconsin
at Madison, October. Best paper award.
1991
“Photographic Memory.” Douglas Harper IVSA Annual Meetings,
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, July.
1991
“Diversified Rural Livelihood Strategies in a Time of Transition.”
Gilbert Gillespie, Thomas Lyson, Douglas Harper. Rural Sociological
Association Annual Meetings, Columbus, OH, August.
1991
“How Government Policies and Programs Shape Diversified Rural
Livelihood Strategies in the United States.” Thomas Lyson, Gilbert
Gillespie and Douglas Harper. Society for Applied
Anthropology Annual Meetings, Charleston, SC.
1990
“Reciprocal Work Relationships as Part of Diversified Rural
Livelihood Strategies Among Low Income Farm Families.” Douglas
Harper Gilbert Gillespie and Thomas Lyson. Rural Sociology Annual
Meetings, Norfolk, VA.
1990
“Earning a Livelihood among Limited-Resource Farm Households: A
continuous process of strategizing.” Gilbert Gillespie, Thomas
Lyson, and Douglas Harper. Rural Sociology Annual
Meetings, Norfolk, VA.
1990
“The Visualization of Social Theory.” Douglas Harper. IVSA Annual Meetings,
Whittier College, Whittier, CA, July.
1989
“From ‘Interpretive Voice' to “Interpretive Eye'.” Douglas Harper.
IVSA Annual Meetings: Eyes
Across the Water I, University of Amsterdam, July.
1989
“Emotions and Social Class: The presentation of self.” Douglas
Harper. American Sociology
Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA,
August.
1988
“Visual Sociology as a Qualitative Method.” Douglas Harper. Qualitative Research
Conference, University of Windsor, Ontario, April.
1988
“Cultural Definitions of Change in an Agricultural Community.”
Douglas Harper. Seventh
World Congress for Rural Sociology. University of Bologna,
June.
1987
“The Analysis of Artistic Performance: Four approaches.” Douglas
Harper. Social Theory and
the Arts Annual Conference, SUNY Albany, September.
1987
“The Study of Community Organization through Aerial
Photographs.” Douglas Harper. IVSA Annual Meetings,
University of Nebraska, July.
1987
“Teaching the Undergraduate to Write Sociology: Some practical
considerations.” Douglas Harper. Conference on Interpretive
Communities and the Undergraduate Writer, University of
Chicago, April.
1986
“The Negotiation of Reputation in a Rural Work Environment.”
Douglas Harper. Generic
Dimensions of Interactionist-Interpretive Inquiry, University
of Waterloo, April.
1986
“A Visual Ethnography of Industrial Agriculture.” Douglas Harper.
IVSA Annual Meetings,
University of Bielefeld, Germany, July.
1985
“Photo-Elicitation: A method for the analysis of meaning in a work
Environment.” Douglas Harper. Conference on Visual
Communication. University of Pennsylvania,
September.
1983
“Documenting the Nicaraguan Elections: Ideology in the images of a
liberal gringo.” Douglas Harper. IVSA Annual Meetings,
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, July.