Lecture by Erin Brock Carlson (English, West Virginia University); part of HRI's Story & Place event series.
About the Speaker
Erin Brock Carlson’s research centers the relationships between place, technology, and power, focusing on how communities work together to address complex public problems through communication and community organizing. She uses community-based and participatory approaches in her research.
Recent and ongoing projects include facilitating cultural equity conversations across West Virginian artists; documenting the experiences of West Virginians affected by natural gas pipeline development; and advocating for place-oriented understandings of public health data. Erin is also working on a book manuscript articulating the value of place-based knowledges to Appalachian organizing and activism during regional economic transition, drawing from a yearlong participatory photovoice project with a group of community organizers.
She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in professional, technical, and multimedia writing, as well as Digital Humanities and accompanying research methods.