Timothy Pachirat, assistant professor of political science at The New School for Social Research, was featured in the September 21 edition of the Chronicle Review  for his groundbreaking ethnographic study about slaughterhouse workers. This study, which was also the topic of his doctoral dissertation, was conducted on the killing floor of a meat processing plant in the Midwest; Pachirat worked at the plant in order to study its power relations as a participant observer.

The Chronicle Review’s article on Pachirat’s ethnography reflects the growing interest in the use of qualitative methodology in political science. Professor Pachirat also contributed to Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power, an anthology edited by Edward Schatz on the same topic.