The George E. Marcus Archive

The George E. Marcus Archive is a digital archive project documenting Marcus’s career-long efforts to rethink ethnographic research and collaborative anthropology.

January 2025 · Tim Schütz

Environmental Governance Global Record

The Environmental Governance Global Record is a collaborative archive and research infrastructure that documents patterns and variations in environmental injustice and environmental governance across different sites and cases.

January 2023 · Disaster STS Network

Projects in Analysis in Social Computing

Students design ethnographic projects examining computing in everyday settings using participant observation, document analysis, and prototype design.

January 2023 · Tim Schütz, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Roderic Crooks, Matthew Bietz

Knowledge Infrastructure and Research Agendas for Quotidian Anthropocenes: Critical Localism with Planetary Scope

This article proposes new forms of collaborative knowledge infrastructure for studying the Anthropocene, emphasizing ‘quotidian Anthropocenes’ and partnerships between universities, cultural institutions, and local experts.

August 2021 · Kim Fortun, James Adams, Tim Schütz, Scott Gabriel Knowles

Civic Community Archiving with the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography: Double Binds and Design Challenges

This chapter analyzes how the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) supports civic community archiving while revealing tensions between openness, participation, and infrastructure design.

July 2021 · Kim Fortun, Mike Fortun, Angela Hitomi Skye Crandall Okune, Tim Schütz, Shan-Ya Su

Archiving for the Anthropocene

Course examining environmental right-to-know databases, community archives, museums, and other cultural institutions as infrastructures for Anthropocene knowledge.

January 2021 · Tim Schütz

Humanitarian Media Intervention: Infrastructuring in Times of Forced Migration

This article analyzes how volunteer networking initiatives such as Freifunk for Refugees became embedded within refugee shelters during the European migration crisis, highlighting the sociotechnical work required to build humanitarian communication infrastructures.

May 2017 · Sebastian Kubitschko, Tim Schütz