18th Annual Conference on Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies

Keynote Speakers

Tom Barone is Professor of Education at Arizona State University. He received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1978 and currently teaches courses in curriculum studies and qualitative research methods in the ASU College of Education. His recent books are Aesthetics, Politics, and Educational Inquiry: Essays and Examples and the award-winning Touching Eternity: The Enduring Outcomes of Teaching. The latter received an Outstanding Book Recognition from Division B of the American Educational Research Association, and the 2002 Book of the Year Award from the AERA Narrative Research Special Interest Group.

Over 25 years ago, Barone's dissertation explored the possibilities of literary non-fiction within educational inquiry. Since then he has explored, conceptually and through examples, a variety of narrative and arts-based approaches to contextualizing and theorizing about significant educational issues. Nowadays, he is especially interested in issues of authority and audience as related to research-based narrative constructions.

Ruth Behar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Behar was born in Havana, Cuba and has written about her experience of crossing cultural borders as a poet, essayist, fiction writer, editor, and ethnographer. In 1988, at the start of her career as an anthropologist, Ruth Behar was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award. She has since been the recipient of many prestigious fellowships for her scholarly and artistic work. These include a John Simon Guggenheim award in 1995 and a Creative Artist Grant from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs in 1998.

Her books are The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village: Santa María del Monte (Princeton, 1986; expanded paperback edition, 1991), Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story (1993), The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (1996).She is now turning to documentary filmmaking to seek yet another expression of her unique vision of the meaning of home in an age of travel and homesickness.

Elliot W. Eisner is professor of education and art and the Lee. L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University School of Education. His current research focuses on the role of artistic modes of thought in the conduct of social science research and on the development of programs to further arts education in American schools.

A past president of the American Educational Research Association and the National Art Education Association, he is a prolific writer. The 16 books authored by Professor Eisner include The Arts and the Creation of Mind (2002), The Kinds of Schools We Need (1998), Cognition and Curriculum Reconsidered (1994), and The Enlightened Eye: Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice (1990). In addition he has written more than 300 articles and chapters.

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