Announcements and Plenary Address
Location
Knight Auditorium
Format Type
Plenary
Start Date
18-1-2013 12:00 AM
End Date
18-1-2013 12:00 AM
Abstract
Sharlene Janice Nagy Hesse-Biber is Professor of Sociology and the Director of Women's Studies & Gender Studies Program at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She has written widely on methodological and methods issues, including the role of technology and emergent methods in social research. She is the editor of the Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research (Oxford University Press, 2011), co-editor of Emergent Methods in Social Research (Sage, 2006) and Handbook of Emergent Methods (Guilford, 2008), author of Mixed Methods Research: Merging Theory with Practice (Guilford, 2010), and co-author of The Practice of Qualitative Research (2nd Edition, Sage Publications, 2010). Professor Hesse-Biber is co-developer of the software program HyperRESEARCH, a computer-assisted program for analyzing qualitative data, and the new transcription tool HyperTRANSCRIBE. In addition to her work on social science methodologies, Dr. Hesse-Biber is an award-winning scholar for her research regarding the impact of sociocultural factors on women's body image, including her book, Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity (Oxford University Press, 1996), which was selected as one of Choice magazine's best academic books for 1996. She also authored The Cult of Thinness (2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2007) and edited Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis (2nd Edition, Sage Publications, 2012) and Feminist Research Practice: A Primer (2nd Edition, Sage Publications, 2012, forthcoming).
Announcements and Plenary Address
Knight Auditorium
Sharlene Janice Nagy Hesse-Biber is Professor of Sociology and the Director of Women's Studies & Gender Studies Program at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She has written widely on methodological and methods issues, including the role of technology and emergent methods in social research. She is the editor of the Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research (Oxford University Press, 2011), co-editor of Emergent Methods in Social Research (Sage, 2006) and Handbook of Emergent Methods (Guilford, 2008), author of Mixed Methods Research: Merging Theory with Practice (Guilford, 2010), and co-author of The Practice of Qualitative Research (2nd Edition, Sage Publications, 2010). Professor Hesse-Biber is co-developer of the software program HyperRESEARCH, a computer-assisted program for analyzing qualitative data, and the new transcription tool HyperTRANSCRIBE. In addition to her work on social science methodologies, Dr. Hesse-Biber is an award-winning scholar for her research regarding the impact of sociocultural factors on women's body image, including her book, Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity (Oxford University Press, 1996), which was selected as one of Choice magazine's best academic books for 1996. She also authored The Cult of Thinness (2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2007) and edited Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis (2nd Edition, Sage Publications, 2012) and Feminist Research Practice: A Primer (2nd Edition, Sage Publications, 2012, forthcoming).