The Visiting Lab in Lenapehoking

Our Name

Our name, The Visiting Lab, refers to ways of being with each other. With this name we are thinking about research as a way of being with: being with communities, with young people and with lands and waters — and pursuing research questions that matter to them.

Visiting is not a method, it is a relation. When we spend time in an elders home or have tea with a cousin, we are doing something to restore and rejuvenate our relationships, to see if we can bring something or to be of help in some way, and in order to learn.

Visiting is about being guests in other people's lives and homelands and being intentional about the time we are spending. It is not accidental, it is purposeful. We are intentionally trying to be in good relation. With this name, we are considering our responsibilities as visitors in Lenapehoking.

Our Lab

Our Lab is located in the NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools (NYU Metro Center). The NYU Metro Center houses a number of research labs, centers and projects – all committed to educational equity and school transformation.

Our lab commitments are to social change, supportive openness, and collaboration and collaborative writing. We are committed to the knowledge of every day people to futures in which Indigenous social theory and understandings of relations between humans, between more-than-human-kin, and between lands and waters can be prioritized