15th Annual Conference on Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies

Keynote Speakers

Quality of Life
Laurel Richardson
Laurel Richardson is Professor Emerita of Sociology, Professor of Cultural Studies in the College of Education, and Graduate Professor of Women's Studies at The Ohio State University. Laurel Richardson teaches and has written extensively on qualitative methods, sociology of gender, sociology of knowledge, and the sociology of everyday-life. She has a great interest in respresentational issues and has engaged in deep reflective dialogues on the nature of qualitative writing from different voices of scientist, researcher, feminist and representative of the academic world. She engages in the transformation of texts while examining the interplay of feminist, sociological, and postmodern theories.

It's Your World, I'm Just Trying to Explain it: Understanding the Epistemic and Methodological Challenges
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Gloria Ladson-Billings is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Senior Fellow in Urban Education at the Amberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. A passionate advocate for social justice, Gloria Ladson-Billings has focused her research extensively on examining pedagogical approaches for African American students and multicultural education, applying critical race theory to education. She has examined and developed teacher education to enhance the preparation of teachers to work in diverse settings.

Navigators: A Performance Collage
Terry Jenoure
Terry Jenoure is Director of the Augusta Savage Gallery and Lecturer in the Department of Afro-American Studies and in the School of Education at University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She is a vocalist, violinist, and composer and has devoted almost ten years forging the development of a multicultural and multi-arts program as the director for the Savage Gallery. Navigators is a performance collage based on some of the findings from an in-depth interview study examining the experiences of African American artists in higher education. Combining taped and live vocal and instrumental music, spoken word, movement, and visual imagery, this performance collage highlights the stories of three of these artists.

Working the Ruins: Qualitative Research in the Postmodern
Elizabeth St.Pierre
Elizabeth St.Pierre is Associate Professor in the Department of Language Education, University of Georgia. Elizabeth St.Pierre examines issues of subjectivity in qualitative research methodology applying a poststructural, critical and feminist framework to aspects of language and the construction of subjectivity as well as qualitative methodology. Applying these theories she examines how they inform the reading/writing/language theories of Secondary English Education.

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