This panel brings scholars together to reflect on their critical ethnographic work, representing perspectives trained on diverse topics, such as white supremacy in Scandinavia to religious nationalism in India to gender and sexual exclusivity in some U.S. Black American churches to impacts of systemic racism and racialization in Asian American communities to Zionism in the context of Israeli-Palestinian crisis. The discussion will focus on the ethics, challenges, dilemmas, and importance of doing critical ethnography–that is, ethnography in which “the researcher encounters social conditions that become the point of departure for research” and in which the researcher “takes us beneath surface appearances, disrupts the status quo, and unsettles both neutrality and taken-for-granted assumptions by bringing to light underlying and obscure operations of power and control” (Madison 2019: 4). Tackling issues of fieldwork methods, representational ethics, relationships with interlocutors, and personal and professional risks, this conversation aims to offer practical guidance and strategies for not only intentionally setting out to do critical ethnography but also how to handle the challenging situations that often come with the territory.