Our article “Patchwork Ethnography” was featured as part of the American Ethnologist’s 50 Year Anniversary issue. In the piece, we interrogate how researchers’ personal lives shape the process of knowledge production, showcase innovations that have emerged from efforts to balance multiple commitments, and advocate for writing with rather than against the disruptions that might characterize anthropological research projects.

We believe that, as a discipline that centers reflexivity, anthropology provides the tools to rethink not only its own research practices but also those of other social sciences. Drawing on the discipline's strengths, patchwork ethnography unlocks anthropology's potential to further expand what theory means and who can be considered a theorist.