"Project PERCS" Launches Ethnographic Study of the Little Tennessee River Valley

This year, PERCS launched "Project PERCS": a sustainable program supporting teams of students, faculty and community leaders in multi-year, interdisciplinary, ethnogrpahic projects. This new research program will promote greater collaboration between the university and local communities, produce substantive research, and enhance student learning. As part of this larger project, PERCS ius offering a 2-hour gateway course titled "Appalachian Ethnography" to introduce students to the field project. For more information on Project PERCS, click here. For more information on the gateway course, click here.

PERCS Sponsored Projects

One of the primary goals of PERCS is to develop, launch and support ethnographic research and community studies and make this research available to students, faculty and the general public. Both completed projects as well as on-going work is described below. In many cases, the full project is accessible online by following the links below. In other cases, you will find a description of the project online with some photos and audio or video clips but the full documentation is housed in the PERCS archives in the Sociology/Ant hropology House at 309 East Haggard Avenue.

If you are interested in developing a project under the auspices of PERCS, or working on an on-going project, contact the current coordinator of PERCS.

Completed Projects

Video

• North Carolina pottery collecting (2005)

• Parking Lot Culture in North Carolina (2004)
• Undocumented Immigration at the U.S./Mexican Border (2005)

• Elon Women’s Rugby Team (2003)
• Tattoo parlor culture (2002)
• Muggled: An Inside Look at Geocaching (2006)

Audio

• The Best Feeling: Elon fire department (2006)
• Body Ink: Tattoos and Piercing (2004)
• Zack’s Hot Dogs: (2004)

On-Going Projects

• Non-white southern social types
• Perceptions of the Confederate flag
• Internationalizing a College Campus