In ANT380H Craft of Social/Cultural Anthropology, students develop and work on their own research projects. The course is designed to walk them through the various steps of the research process: selecting a site and developing a research question; considering research ethics, power relations, and critiques of extractivism; conducting interviews and participant observation; writing evocative site and character descriptions; finding relevant literatures; weaving together ethnographic findings, quotes from interlocutors, theoretical concepts, and one’s own analytical voice; and sharing research findings by way of a final paper or other media forms, and orally. Along the way, students discuss preliminary findings and challenges with the class, and they write a series of research journal entries. This collection was produced by students who took the course in Fall 2025. It includes excerpts from the students’ research journals and from their final papers, along with reflections on the research process and/or an overview of research findings.