Interactive Ethnography and Arts Institute

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IEAI is an independent research nonprofit that advances understandings of the world by improving knowledge sharing between the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (AHSS), and the general public through engaged storytelling and digital innovation. Work at the Institute focuses on a specific AHSS topic each year through a diverse range of scholarship, artistic practices, and digital productions.
Storytelling with technology
i-Ethnography Productions

A creative studio that designs and produces digital interactives that use the versatility of web design to present compelling research narratives and encourage critical engagement with AHSS. With these immersive presentations, researchers can share their work and connect with a range of audiences through dynamic storytelling.

Dynamic research setting
Multimodal Ethnography Lab

An interdisciplinary research network that critically explores the different ways people experience storytelling and interact with interconnected media forms in their lives. The Lab examines how to make AHSS research more accessible to diverse groups through multimodal content, praxis pedagogies, and digital engagements.

Incubator of connectivity
Inter+Active Hub

A center of practice that fosters learning between academics, creative professionals, and the general public through engaged anthropology projects, cultural programming, and educational initiatives. These activities work with communities to develop new ways to share their stories through technology and the arts.

Collaborative Leadership

Co-Executive Directors

Anthropologist and Creative Academic
Emilie Le Febvre

With a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford, Le Febvre’s research explores how people construct their social worlds, represent their experiences, and share stories about their pasts with photographs, digital media, and archives. Prioritizing ethnographic and archival fieldwork, her work draws on people’s own social and historical orientations, experimental methodologies, and multimodal encounters. She is committed to creating knowledge mobilization initiatives that innovate the production, curation, and accessibility of scholarship.

Research Portfolio
Performance Theorist and Artist
Hilary Cooperman

With a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, Cooperman specializes in ethnographic and arts-based methods for technical and marketing sectors. She is also an educator and theatre artist committed to performance as a site of inquiry, a medium for social activism and as a participatory methodology. She has created adaptations and intermedial performances that cut across the text/body divide and her scholarship focuses on the production of socio-political space and the way it is imagined, appropriated, and practiced through the body.

Research Portfolio

IEAI reimagines how Arts, Humanities, and Social Science research is produced, repatriated, and mobilized through technology-centered creative practices.