Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials

About

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications College of Communications Scholar and Research Professor of Communications Sociology and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA. One of the worlds foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism he is the author or editor of more than 30 books including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Alcoholic Self; and a trilogy on the American West. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly co-editor of six editions of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of 18 books on qualitative inquiry co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Michael D. Giardina) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry founding editor of Cultural Studies?Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research editor of four book series and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.  Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University where she held the Ruth Harrington Chair of Educational Leadership and was Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. She is the coeditor of the journal Qualitative Inquiry coeditor of the first through six editions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. As well she is the coauthor editor or coeditor of more than a half dozen other books and volumes. She has served as the President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Evaluation Research Association and as the Vice President for Division J (Postsecondary Education) for the American Educational Research Association. She is the author of coauthor of more than 100 chapters and journal articles on aspects of higher education or qualitative research methods and methodologies.