Melissa Rae Goodnight is an Assistant Professor in Educational Psychology and Global Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Rodney Hopson serves as Interim Dean and Professor in the School of Education at American University.

• Chapter 1. Doing Ethnography and Evaluation: Cases Illustrating Transformative, Intersectional, and Comparative Work; Melissa Rae GoodnightSection 1. The United States of AmericaChapter 2. Beyond the Numbers: Using Critical Collaborative Ethnography to Evaluate Homeplace at a Freedom School; Chonika Coleman-King, Taryrn T.C. Brown, Jalea Turner, Deandra West, Amy Christensen-McLean, and Michael A. ScofieldChapter 3. Ethnography and Program Evaluation in Early Education: Opportunities for Holistic Understandings of Learning and Development in Context of Beneficiaries’ Lived Experiences; Melissa Miller, Caroline Black, Beth Giacalone, and Sara SpragueChapter 4. From the Root: Power, Equity, and the Transition from Graduate Student to Novice Practitioner; Hannah Valdiviejas, Cecilia Vaughn-Guy, Paapa Nkrumah-Ababio, Shiyu Sun, Jailene Aguirre, and Cherie M. AventSection 2. CanadaChapter 5. The Art of Evaluation: Reimagining an Employment Program for Migrant Women Using an Arts-based Approach; Tanis SawkinsChapter 6. Using Indigenous Methodologies to Evaluate School Community Councils in Saskatchewan; Ted AmendtSection 3. Mexico and IndiaChapter 7. Social Justice, Inequity, and Coloniality: Emerging Critical Issues in the Evaluation of a Program for Training Young Researchers in the Mayan Area of Mexico; Roger J. González González and Edith J. Cisneros-CohernourChapter 8. Self-work and Apprenticeship: Reflections on an Ethnography of Monitoring and Evaluation in Rural India; Melissa Rae Goodnight Epilogue; Rodney Hopson

The field of evaluation needs more empirical examples that illustrate how to conduct transformative work. This text delivers just that! It offers rich case studies that highlight how ethnographic methods can illuminate both individual and collective experiences, as well as the complex social systems and cultural contexts that shape them. The concrete examples of community engagement, participatory approaches, and the interplay of power and privilege make this book an invaluable resource for advancing more authentic, equitable, and transformative evaluation practice.