PhD for Little Work Interviewing Drag Queens

This person ( Dr. Gabriel Pulido) got a PhD in Higher Education at Penn State by using a "Black feminist theoretical framework" to produce an ethnography of "Queer and Trans Drag Artists of Color on College Campus(es)." 

The sample size of his qualitative "study" was "5 queer and trans drag artists of color who frequently perform in colleges located in central, PA." The "research" consisted of interviewing each drag queen twice for 1-2 hours, observing their drag performances for 2-4 hours each, collecting an "artifact" from each drag queen, writing about their experience, and attending a "poetry writing workshop." 

So a maximum of 40 hours of work interviewing the drag queens and watching their drag shows. Let's be generous and say he spent 2 hours performing actual "mediated writing" on each drag queen (so 10 hours total), and the poetry writing workshop took maybe 5 hours max. 

So maybe 55 hours of work for a PhD. And he was likely in the program for 5-7 years. 

This is what our universities are putting resources towards and producing.