BOOK CHAPTERS

2023. Ballestero, Andrea and Melanie Ford Lemus. “Ethnography: a first overarching look” in The Handbook of Teaching Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research: A Step-by-Step Guide, eds. Bernard, H. Russel, Alissa Ruth, and Amber Wutich. London; New York: Routledge.

2021. Ford Lemus, Melanie and Katie Ulrich. “Questions, Experiments, and Movements of Ethnographies in the Making” in Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis. eds. Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 

ESSAYS

2023. “Hydrocracy at the Center of Guatemala City’s Elections.” NACLA online, June. Disponible en español.

2022. “Lines Left Behind: A network of hidden and forgotten pipelines could slow Louisiana’s costal restoration” in Landscape Architecture Magazine, March.

2024. Co-authored w/ Javiera Araya-Moreno and Katie Ulrich. “Fact-making in Latin America: reviewing three ethnographies of truth, doubt, and expertise.” Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology, and Society. Invited for special issue on the Future of Facts in Latin America, eds. Andrea Ballestero, Kregg Hetherington, and Eden Medina.

2022. Ford Lemus, Melanie and Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins. “Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins | Winner of the Sharon Stephens Prize for her book Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine” American Ethnologist website, June.