3rd International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

Keynote Speakers

Professor D. Soyini Madison, " Dangerous Ethnography and Utopian Performative"

D. Soyini Madison is the author of Critical Ethnography: Methods, Ethics, and Performance; co-editor with Judith Hamera on The Sage Handbook of Performance Studies; and, Editor of The Woman That I Am: The Literature and Culture of Contemporary Women of Color. Madison lived and worked in Ghana, West Africa as a senior Fulbright Scholar conducting field research on human rights, local activism, and corporate globalization. She received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Belagio, Italy for her current book project, Acts of Activism: Human Rights and Radical Performance, based on fieldwork in Ghana. Madison also adapts and directs her ethnographic work for the public stage in such performances as: “I Have My Story to Tell,” a performance reflecting the labor struggles of University of Carolina service workers; “Mandela, the Land, and the People,” a performance based on the life and work of Nelson Mandela; “Is It A Human Being or A Girl?” a performance ethnography on traditional religion and human rights activists in Ghana; and, “Water Rites” a multi-media performance on the corporate privatization of water and water as a human right in the global South. Madison is a visiting professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University

Professor Julianne Cheek, "A Fine Line: Positioning Qualitative Inquiry in the Wake of the Politics of Evidence"

Julianne Cheek is a Professor in the Institute of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Oslo and the School of Health Sciences at the University of South Australia. She is Director of a performance based research centre - the Centre for Research into Sustainable Health Care and has also held the university portfolio of Director of Early Career Researcher development with responsibility for post doctoral development at the University of South Australia. She has attracted funding for many qualitative research projects including funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council. She has three major interests: the development of methodological understandings pertaining to qualitative research with an emphasis on funded research; research in the substantive area of care of the older person; and the application of Foucauldian and postmodern perspectives to health care. She holds honorary professorships in South Africa and the UK. She is widely published including her book Postmodern and Poststructural Approaches to Nursing Research (Sage US 2000). She is co-editor of the journal Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, associate editor of Qualitative Health Research, and on the editorial boards of 6 other journals. She is currently working on two new books: one to do with notions of the research product in the 21st century and the other on the role of theory in qualitative research.

Plenary Sessions

1. "Mixed Methodologies and the Politics of Evidence"

The Politics of Mixed Methods: Methodological Considerations at the Quan/Qual Point of Interface

Janice M. Morse, University of Utah
Linda Niehaus, University of Alberta
John Creswell, University of Nebraska
Frederick Erickson, UCLA
Thomas Schwandt, UIUC

2. "Assessing Quality in Qualitative Research "

Participants:

Julianne Cheek, University of South Australia, Adelaide
Susan Finley, Washington State University
Robert Stake, University of Illinois
Leslie Bloom, Iowa State University
Ian Stronach, Manchester

2b. "Mixing Methods: Implications for the Politics of Evidence"
Chair: Katheryne Ryan

Participants:

Jennifer Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joseph Maxwell, George Mason University,
John Creswell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

3. "Interrupting Discourses on Evidence, Truth and Inquiry"

Participants:

Gaile Cannella, Arizona State University
Elizabeth Swadener, Arizona State University
Laurel Richardson, Ohio State University
Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida
Michael D. Giardina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

4. "Spirituality, Indigenous Models of Truth, Endarkened Epistemologies: A Dialogue"

Participants:

Tim Begay, Arizona State University
Sandy Grande Connecticut College
Cynthia B. Dillard, The Ohio State Universty
Christopher Stonebanks,. University of Bishops
Stacy Holman Jones, University of South Florida
Bryant Alexander, California State University

5. "Indigenous Models of Truth in the Decolonized Academy: A Dialogue"

Participants:

Edward Bruner, University of Illinois (Chair)
Yvonna S. Lincoln, Texas A & M University and Elsa Gonzalez, Texas A & M University
D. Soyini Madison, University of North Carolina
Kay Picart, Florida State University
Tim Begaye, Arizona State University

6. "Reconceptualizing Qualitative Evidence: Roundtable Discussion"

Participants:

Janice Morse, University of Utah
David Altheide, Arizona State University
John Johnson, Arizona State University
Jane Gilgun, University of Minnesota
Bronwyn Davies, University of West Sydney, Australia
Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University
Greg Dimitriadis, University at Buffalo The State University of New York

7."Critical Whiteness Studies",

David Roediger, Chair, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Participants:
Amanda Lewis, University of Illinois at Chicago
Audrey Thompson, University of Utah
Pamela Perry, UC-Santa Cruz
Charles Gallagher, Georgia State University

8. "Causality: Whose Version?"

Participants:

Joseph Maxwell, George Mason University
Frederick Erickson, University of California
Steinar Kvale, University of Aarhus
George Kamberelis, University at Albany State University of New York
Genevieve Rail, University of Ottawa Canada
David L. Altheide, Arizona State University
John Johnson, Arizona State University

SPOTLIGHT:

1. Models of Truth and Organic Intellectual Praxis
Participants:

Mary Weems, Cleveland State University
Carolyn White, Rutgers

2. Lets Get Personal I:: First-Generation Autoethnographers Reflect On writing Personal Narrative

Participants:

Arthur Bochner, University of South Florida
Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois
Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida
H. L. (Bud) Goodall, Arizona State University
Ron Pelias, Southern Illinois University
Stacy Holman Jones, University of South Florida

3. Lets Get Personal II: Second-Generation Autoethnographers Reflect On writing Personal Narrative

Participants:

Carla Corroto, Universal Design Committee at UW-Whitewater.
Elissa Foster, San Jose State University
Lesa Lockford, Bowling Green State University
Christopher Poulos, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Mary Weems, Cleveland State University
Stacy Holman Jones, University of South Florida

4. Institutionalizing Qualitative Research: Emerging Models
Participants:

Judith Davidson, Chair, University of Massachusetts
Janice Morse, University of Utah
Kathy Roulston, University of Georgia
Melissa Freeman, University of Georgia
Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois

5. Tenure and Getting Published as a Qualitative Researcher
Participants:

Arthur Bochner, University of South Florida
Chris Poulos, University of North CarolinaGreensboro
Ron Pelias, Southern Illinois University
H. L. (Bud) Goodall, Arizona State University
Mitch Allen, Left Coast Press
Adele Clarke, University of California, San Francisco
James Scheurich, Texas A&M Universiry
Yvonna S. Lincoln, Texas A & M University
Doni Loseke

6.Participatory Action Research
Sue Noffke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

7. "Indigenous Models of Truth, Performance, Wisdom, and Spirituality"

Participants:

Stacy Holman Jones , University of South Florida
Christopher Stonebanks , University of Bishops
Cynthia Dillard, The Ohio State University
Sandy Grande, Connecticut College
Tim Begay, Arizona State University
Bryant Alexander, California State University

Plenary Speakers

Professor Bryant Alexander

Bryant K. Alexander is the associate dean of the College of Arts and Letters and professor of communication studies-teaching courses in pedagogy and performance cross-listed with the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at California State University, Los Angeles. His publications have appeared in Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, Qualitative Inquiry, Text and Performance Quarterly, Theatre Topics, Theatre Annual, Communication Quarterly, and others. He is the author of Performing Black Masculinity: Race, Culture, and Queer Identity (Altamira press 2006)

Professor Tim Begaye

Professor Tim Begaye is an assistant progessor in the Division of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, College of Education, Arizona State University. Previously, he was a Research Associate with the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development and a Teaching Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Begaye was a high school math and social science teacher.

Professor Gaile Cannella

Gaile Cannella is Professor of education at Arizona State University. She is the author of Deconstructing Early Childhood Education: Social Justice and Revolution (Peter Lang, 1997), coauthor (with Radhika Viruru) of Childhood and Post-Colonization : Power, Education, and Contemporary Practice (Routledge Falmer, 2004), and coeditor of Kidworld: Childhood Studies, Global Perspectives, and Education(Peter Lang, 2002). She is also the section editor for Childhood and Cultural Studies in the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing.

Professor John Creswell

John W. Creswell is Professor of Educational Psychology at Teachers College, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is affiliated with a graduate program in educational Psychology specializing in quantitative and qualitatie methods in education. In this program, he specializes in qualitative metods in education. His latest research methods book, Research Design : Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches(Sage,1994), compares and contrasts qualitative and quantitative research in several phases of the research design process. He is also the author of Qualitative Inquiury and Research Design: Choosing Among five Traditions (Sage, 1998)

Professor Cynthia Dillard

Professor Cynthis Dillard is Associate Professor of Education at the Ohio State University. In June 2001 the community of Mpeasem, Ghana, onored her efforts in building a community center and preschool there by enstooling her as Queen Mother Nana Mansa , during a traditional African ritual ceremony. She is the author of On Spiritual Strivings: Transforming an African American Woman's Academic Life (State University of New York Press,2006)

Professor Frederick Erickson

Frederick Erickson is Professor, Social Research Methodology Director, University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests are in organization and conduct of face to face interaction, sociolinguistic discourse analysis, ethnographic research methods, study of social interaction as a learning environment, and anthropology of education. Recent publications include: Definition and analysis of data from videotape: Some research procedures and their rationales. Chapter in J. Green, J. Camilli, and P. Elmore (eds.) Handbook of complementary methods in educational research. (3rd ed.) American Educational Research Association.

Professor Stacy Holman Jones

Professor Stacy Holman Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida. Her work focuses on socially resistive performance practices. She is the author of Kaleidoscope Notes: Writing Women's Music and Organizational Culture(1998) and the forthcoming Music for Torching.

Professor Steinar Kvale, University of Aarhus

Professor Steinar Kvale's interests include field methods journal, journal of phenomenonlogical psychology, qualitative inquiry, scandinavian journal of educational research, qualitative studies in education, theory & psychology, methods. Recent publications include: Kvale, S. (2002) The church, the factory and the market as metaphors for psychology. In: C.v. Hofstein & L.Bäckman (Eds.). Psychology at the turn of the millenium, Vol 2: Social, developmental and clinical perspective (pp.409-436). New York: Taylor & Francis.

Professor Janice M. Morse
Scientific Director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology

Janice Morse is professor of nursing and director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology at the College of Nursing, University of Utah. She is the author or editor of eighteen books, including Nursing Research: The Application of Qualitative Approaches (Stanley Thorne, 2003), The Nature of Qualitative Evidence(Sage, 2001), and Preventing Patient Falls(Sage,2001). She is also the editor of the journal Qualitative Health Research (Sage), two methods series for Left Coast Press, Inc., and the Qual Institute Press.

Professor Christopher Stonebanks

Professor Christopher Stonebanks is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education, University of Bishops.

Professor Carolyne White

Carolyne J. White is a professor of educational foundations at Northern Arizona University where she co-directs the Hopi Teachers for Hopi Schools and Itaa Tsatsayom Mopeqwya (Our Children Come First) Projects.

Professor Mary Weems

Mary Weems is Performer, Poet, Playwright, Scholar of urban-education reform at Cleveland State University.She has published three short collections of her poetry: white (Wick Chapbook Series Winner, Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1996), Fembles (The Heartlands Today, Bowling Green State UP, 1996), and Blackeyed (Lakewood, OH, Burning P, 1994). She has contributed to the anthologies Boomer Girls (Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1999) and Spirit & Flame: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poets (Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1996).
In 1998, her play Another Way to Dance won the Cleveland Public Theater's Chilcote Award for the Most Innovative Play by an Ohio Playwright.
Her first book on education, Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect: I Speak from the Wound in My Mouth (developed from her dissertation), is forthcoming from Peter Lang in 2003. Recent scholarly articles have appeared in Studies in Symbolic Interaction (New York: JAI P, 2001), Qualitative Inquiry (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000), and xcp: Cultural Poetics (Minneapolis: College of St. Catherine, 2000).

Professor David L. Altheide

David L.Altheide is a Regents' Professor at School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. His research and teaching focuses on communication, social interaction and social organization. Professor Altheide uses qualitative research methods and a symbolic interactionist perspective in examining the process of "defining the situation," including how social actors construct social meanings.Three recent books illustrate these interests: Terrorism and the Politics of Fear (AltaMira, 2006); Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (Aldine de Gruyter, 2002), and Qualitative Media Analysis (Sage, 1996).

Professor Edward Bruner

Edward Bruner is a Regents' Professor at Department of Anthropology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests includes Cultural anthropology, tourism, interpretive anthropology, narratology, performance, processes of change, urbanization, ethnicity, Indonesia, and American culture. Recent publications include: Through the Looking Glass: Reflections on an Anthropological Life. (Anthropology and Humanism 30 (2): 201-207. 2005), Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005)

Professor John Johnson

John Johnson is a Professor at school of Justice&Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. He usually does qualitative research, and his recent research interests have focused on human rights, the death penalty, orders of protection, stalking, and the nature of forgiveness. Recent publications include: Joseph A. Kotarba and John M. Johnson, eds., Postmodern Existential Sociology. (Denver: Rowan and Littlefield, 2002), John M. Johnson, Yvonne Luna, and Judy Stein, "Orders of Protection and the Stake in Conformity Thesis," (Journal of Family Violence, 2002).

Professor Norbert Wiley

Norbert Wiley is an emeritus professor from the University of Illinois, working as a writer in Berkeley, CA. His books are on the Marx-Weber Debate and the Semiotic Self, and he is writing on inner speech (the stream of consciousness) and also on film theory.

Professor Jurjo Torres Santome

Catedrático de Universidade de Didáctica e Organización Escolar. Universidade da Coruña
Faculdade de Ciéncias da Educación.
Dpto. de Pedagoxía e Didáctica das CC. Exp.
Curriculum Integrado e Interdisciplinariedade
Análisis de Políticas Educativas
Curriculum Antidiscriminación
Multiculturalismo
Pedagoxía Crítica
Formación do Profesorado.

Professor Geneviève Rail

Geneviève Rail is a Full Professor at Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa. Her Research Interests including Sociology of sport, the body and health; Women and sport, physical activity and health; Feminist critique of institutions related to the body (health systems, sport, cultural and sports media); Sport/body/health and (bio)power, sport/body/health and ethics. Phenomenology, feminist cultural studies, poststructuralist, postmodern and postcolonial approaches.