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Douglas Harper
Douglas Harper is professor emeritus of sociology at Duquesne University and graduate adjunct professor at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the founding editor of the journal Visual Studies, a position he held for thirteen years. He has published several visual ethnographies, five published by the University of Chicago Press. He is one of the founding members of the International Visual Sociology Association and recently served as president of that society. While Harper is interested in several aspects of visual sociology his own work focuses on using photography in ethnographic research. He is currently completing a 30-year visual ethnography of Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna, Italy, while also devoting time, during the COVID lockdown, to a partly visual autobiographical narrative entitled Return to Minnesota.
Contact: Department of Sociology, Duquesne University, 504 College Hall, 1100 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA.