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This seminar is designed to provide students with an overview to one approach to conducting publicly-oriented, academically-rigorous, community-engaged, reflexive research with organizers. Learning how do this kind of work is a craft; as with all research, there is no formula for doing it well. Instead, researchers have to develop motivational, ethical, conceptual, and technical capacities: to do the work well, researchers must want to do the work; they must develop an ethical framework and a set of animating values; they must understand the theory and concepts that underpin reflexive research; and they must have the technical skills necessary for carrying out the research. In other words, as with many complex capabilities, there is a head, hands, and heart component to the research. This seminar is designed to introduce students to all of these aspects of the work and equip those who are interested to practice doing a concrete project. It is important to emphasize, however, that because doing this work is a craft, we expect that this is one part of on an ongoing journey— not the end.