Sonia Rupcic, PhD 

ACLS Fellow (American Council of Learned Societies) 

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University 

Visiting Scholar in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh 

Content warnings have become an important feature of pedagogical practice. In this talk and discussion, I reflect on my experiences as a junior scholar trying to promote ethnographic research on topics that are triggering. I focus on "shopping" a book manuscript on sexual violence as a process beset by competing imperatives to engage ethically, to support the mental health of others, to adhere to disciplinary conventions around "thick description," and to market the book as attracting a wide readership. 

Research, Ethics and Society Seminar Series