Analyzing Qualitative Data: Systematic Approaches

About Amber Y. WutichGery W. RyanH. Russell Bernard

H. Russell Bernard is Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Florida. He served as editor of the American Anthropologist and Human Organization. He is co-founder (with Pertti Pelto and Stephen Borgatti) of the Cultural Anthropology Methods journal (1989) which became Field Methods in 1999. The five editions of his methods text Research Methods in Anthropology (AltaMira 2006) and his general research methods text Social Research Methods (Sage 2012) have been used by tens of thousands of students. Bernard co-founded (with Pelto) and co-directed (with Pelto and Borgatti) the National Science Foundations Institute on Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology and has done fieldwork in Greece Mexico and the U.S.A. His publications include (with Jesús Salinas Pedraza) Native Ethnography: A Otomí Indian Describes His Culture (Sage 1989). Bernard is known as well for his work with Peter Killworth Eugene Johnsen Christopher McCarty and Gene A. Shelley on network analysis including work on the network scale-up method for estimating hard-to-count populations. In 2010 Bernard was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Gery Ryan (Ph. D. University of Florida 1995) is a Senior Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at the Pardee RAND Graduate School in Policy Analysis. Ryans research focuses on social factors in mental and physical health and includes studies on HIV/AIDS depression serious mental illness childhood diarrhea and acute respiratory illnesses obesity and complementary and alternative medicine. He has worked extensively in Latin America and Africa on health-related issues and helped redesign and implement a large-scale education reform in Qatar. As a methodologist Ryan has published widely on the application of systematic methods to qualitative research. Over the last 20 years he has run workshops sponsored by NSF NIH CDC and WHO on qualitative research methods and has taught these methods at UCLA Pardee RAND and the University of Missouri.