womanist ethnography
Dr. Sheppard is the founder of the Womanist Ethnography Conference, an annual event which brings together womanist researchers and community members to advance the theory, method, and practice.
ethnography
What is ethnography?
Womanist ethnography involves the practice of listening to Black women’s experiences and perspectives as a required, necessary, and valued basis of our research.
It privileges Black women’s social and cultural knowledge and their strategies for navigating the societal, religious, and relational complexities of being Black women.
Womanist ethnography opens up spaces for conversation and shared knowledge to create new understanding of society, lived religion, spirituality, and vocation.
Annual Womanist Ethnography Conferences
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2023
Queering Womanist Ethnography
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2022
Womanist Ethnography and Activism
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2021
Womanist Ethnography: The Moral of the Story: What are Black Women Teaching Womanist Ethnographers about Moral Reasoning?
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2020
Womanist Ethnography and Research in a Time of Pandemics.
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2019
Womanist Ethnography & Black Women’s Vocation: Public, Local, and Global Conversations.
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2018
This is my Calling: Womanist Ethnography and Black Women’s Vocation
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2024
Tattletale: Telling Stories of Black and Brown Women’s Bodies
