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642 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2012)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0642 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial Preface The initial ethnography conference that would lead to a series of conferences (which have now become something of a tradition), emphasizing the close mentoring of younger ethnographers by veteran ethnographers, was organized at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001. Jack Katz and Bob Emerson brought together these individuals to present and share their work and to learn from one another in a constructive, yet informal and sup- portive, scholarly atmosphere. My students, Scott Brooks, Nikki Jones, Raymond Gunn, and I followed Jack and Bob's example and organ- ized similar conferences at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003 and in 2005, with the former resulting in the notable Annals volume, Being Here, Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries (September 2004). These conferences also fos- tered and reinforced a scholarly network that became national and international in scope, providing developing ethnographers with a supportive space in which to present their work in progress. Since the original UCLA confer- ence, ethnography has developed a larger disci- plinary footprint. At the same time, ethnographic styles of writing have emerged that fail to include much discernible fieldwork at all. In the words of my teacher, Howard S. Becker, If the people we study can't recognize themselves in our work, then maybe we need to do more work. At Yale University in 2008, my students and I organized an ethnographic conference to address some of these outstanding issues, lead- ing to a special double issue of Ethnography (2009-2010). One distinctive feature of those papers was their emphasis and reliance on old- fashioned shoe leather fieldwork, as Mitch Duneier has memorably called it, reminiscent of the days when fieldworkers such as W. E. B. DOI: 10.1177/0002716212442843 ANNALS, AAPSS, 642, July, 2012 6

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