SHARLENE NAGY HESSE-BIBER Mailing Address: Department of Sociology, Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA. 02467-3807 Tel: (617) 552-4139 Email: hesse@bc.edu EDUCATION The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ph.D. in Sociology The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor M.A. in Sociology The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor B.A. in Sociology RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Women and Health, Genetic Testing, Women and Men s Health, Women and Body Image, Feminism and Methodology, Feminist Theory, Qualitative Methods, Mixed Methods and Emergent Methods, Microcomputing and Qualitative and Mixed Methods Data Analysis BOOK AWARDS The Handbook of Feminist Research. Selected by Choice Magazine for 2008 Outstanding Academic Title. The Handbook of Feminist Research. Selected by American Educational Studies Association for 2007 Critics Choice Award. Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity. Selected by Choice Magazine for 1996 Outstanding Academic Books. BOOK AWARD NOMINATIONS Waiting for Cancer to Come: Genetic Testing and Women s Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer. Nominee by International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry for 2014 Best Qualitative Research Book. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS Founding Member and Board and Executive Member, The Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA). Founder and Former Director, National Director of National Association of Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE) Board Member, Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA) Board Member: Graduate Consortium in Women s Studies (MIT and Harvard University) Member, Sociologists for Women in Society; American Sociological Association; National Women s Studies Association
SHARLENE NAGY HESSE- BIBER PAGE 2 EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS Editorial Board Member, Sociological Methodology, Qualitative Health Research Associate Editor, Journal of Mixed Methods Research MOST RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS (2014-2004) & FORTHCOMING BOOKS (2015) Co-Editor (forthcoming 2015), The Oxford Handbook of Multi and Mixed Methods Research. New York: Oxford University Press. (co-edited with R. Burke Johnson). Author, 2014. Waiting for Cancer to Come: Genetic Testing and Women s Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press Co-Editor 2013, Mixed Methods and Credibility of Evidence in Evaluation. New Directions for Evaluation, Number 138. New York: Wiley (co-edited with Donna Mertens). Editor, Feminist Research Practice: A Primer, 2 nd Edition, Sage Publications, 2012 Editor, Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis 2 nd Edition. Sage Publications 2012. Editor, Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research. Oxford University Press, 2011 Author, Mixed Methods Research: Merging Theory with Practice. Guilford, 2010. Co-Author, The Practice of Qualitative Research 2 nd Edition. Sage Publications, 2010. Co-Editor, Handbook of Emergent Methods in Social Research. Guilford, 2008. Co-Author, Feminist Research: A Primer. Sage Publications, 2007. Editor, Hesse-Biber, S. N. Handbook of Feminist Research. Sage Publications, 2007. Author, Hesse-Biber, S. N. Cult of Thinness. Oxford University Press, 2007. Co-Author, Hesse-Biber, S. N. The Practice of Qualitative Research. Sage, 2006. Co-Editor, Hesse-Biber, S. N. Emergent Methods in Social Research. Sage, 2006. Co-Author, Hesse-Biber, S. N. and Carter, G. Working Women in America: Split Dreams. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, 2005. Co-Editor, Hesse-Biber, S. and Yaiser, M. Feminist Perspectives in Social Research. Oxford University Press, 2004. MOST RECENTLY PUBLISHED ARTICLES: (2014-2011) & FORTHCOMING ARTICLES (2015). Hesse-Biber, Sharlene (2015 forthcoming). The problems and prospects in the teaching of mixed methods research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology.
SHARLENE NAGY HESSE- BIBER PAGE 3 Hesse-Biber, Sharlene (2015, forthcoming) The thingness problem in mixed methods research. Qualitative Health Research Hesse-Biber, Sharlene (2014) The Genetic Testing Experience of BRCA Positive Women: Deciding Between Surveillance and Surgery Qualitative Health Research Vol. 24(6) 773 789. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene and Amy Griffin (2013). Internet-Mediated Technologies and Mixed Methods Research: Problems and Prospects Journal of Mixed Methods Research. Journal of Mixed Methods Research Vol.7,1:43-61. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene (2013) Thinking Outside the Experimental Box: Strategies for Enhancing Credibility and Social Justice. New Directions in Evaluation Research. Special Issue on Evidenced Based Practice in Evaluation Research Special Issue Editors, Donna Mertens and Sharlene Hesse-Biber. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene (2013) An Invitation to Feminist Research. In. Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Editor) The Practice of Feminist Research: A Primer. Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage Publications. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene (2013). Feminist Approaches to Mixed Methods Research.. In. Sharlene Hesse- Biber (Editor) The Practice of Feminist Research: A Primer. Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage Publications. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene (2013. The Practice of In-depth Interviewing. In. Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Editor) The Practice of Feminist Research: A Primer. Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage Publications. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene ( 2013). Putting your Feminist Research Project Together. In. Sharlene Hesse- Biber (Editor) The Practice of Feminist Research: A Primer. Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage Publications. Mertens, Donna and Sharlene Hesse-Biber (2012). Triangulation and Mixed Methods Research: Provocative Positions. Journal of Mixed Methods Research Hesse-Biber, Sharlene (2012) Weaving a Multi Methodology Praxis to Further the Credibility of Mixed Methods Randomized Control Trials New Directions in Evaluation Research. Submitted for a Special Issue on Evidenced Based Practice in Evaluation Research Special Issue Co-Editor: (2012) Special Issue on Triangulation and Mixed Methods Co-editor (with Donna Mertens) Journal of Mixed Methods Research. Volume 6. Number 2. Mertens, Donna and Sharlene Hesse-Biber (2012). Triangulation and Mixed Methods Research: Provocative Positions. Journal of Mixed Methods Research Vol,6,2:75-79. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene (2012). Feminist Approaches to Triangulation: Uncovering Subjugated Knowledge and Fostering Social Change in Mixed Methods Research. Journal of Mixed Methods Research. Vol. 6 no.2 137-146. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene, (2012) Feminist Research: Exploring, Interrogating, and Transforming the
SHARLENE NAGY HESSE- BIBER PAGE 4 Interconnections of Epistemology, Methodology, and Method. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber, The Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. 2 nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage Publications. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene & Deborah Piatelli (2012). The Synergistic Practice of Theory and Method. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber, The Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. 2 nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage Publications. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene & Abigail Brooks (2012). Challenges and Strategies in Feminist Knowledge Building, Pedagogy, and Praxis In Sharlene Hesse-Biber, The Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. 2 nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage Publications. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene & Deborah Piatelli (2012). The Feminist Practice of Holistic Reflexivity In Sharlene Hesse-Biber, The Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. 2 nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage Publications. Published in 2011: Hesse-Biber, Sharlene (2011). Emergent Technologies in Social Research: Pushing Against the Boundaries of Research Praxis. PP. 3-22. In. Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Editor. Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research. New York: Oxford University Press. Published in 2010: Hesse-Biber, S.N., Livingstone, S., Ramirez, D., E.B. Barko, & A.L. Johnson, (2010) Racial Identity and Body Image Among Black Female College Students Attending Predominately White Colleges. Sex Roles, Volume 63, Numbers 9-10: 697-711. Hesse-Biber, S.N. (Editor) Special Mixed Methods Issue, Qualitative Inquiry. June 2010. Hesse-Biber, S.N.(2010) Qualitative Approaches to Mixed Methods Practice." Qualitative Inquiry, July 2010 16: 455-468. MOST DOWNLOADED QUALITATIVE INQUIRY ARTICLE IN 2010/2011. Hesse-Biber, S.N. (2010) Emerging Methodologies and Methods Practices in the Field of Mixed Methods Research." Qualitative Inquiry July 2010 16: 415-418. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene (2010) Feminist Approaches to Mixed Methods Research: Linking Theory and Praxis Sage Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social & Behavioral Research. Edited by, Abbas Tashakkori and Charles Teddlie, Second Edition. Sage Publications, pp. 169-192. Hesse-Biber, Sharlene, Stacey Livingstone, Daniela Ramirez, Emily Brooke Barko, and Alicia Lorene Johnson. (September, ( 2010). Racial Identity and Body Image Among Black Female College Students Attending Predominately While Colleges. Sex Roles. 63:697-711. Hesse-Biber, S.N. (Editor) Special Mixed Methods Issue, Qualitative Inquiry. June, 2010. Hesse-Biber, S. N. Feminist Approaches to Mixed Methods. In Tashakkori and Teddlie (Eds.),
SHARLENE NAGY HESSE- BIBER PAGE 5 Handbook of Mixed Methods Research. Second Edition. Sage, Forthcoming 2010. Hesse-Biber, S. and Leavy, P. Pushing on the Methodological Boundaries: The Growing Need for Emergent Methods within and across the Disciplines. In Hesse-Biber and Leavy (Eds.), Handbook of Emergent Methods in Social Research. 2008. Hesse-Biber, S. and Leavy, P. Historical Context of Emergent Methods and Innovation in the Practice of Research Methods (pp. 17-22). In Hesse-Biber and Leavy (Eds.), Handbook of Emergent Methods in Social Research. 2008. Hesse-Biber, S. Innovation in Research Methods Designs and Analysis (pp. 359-264.) In Hesse-Biber and Leavy (Eds.), Handbook of Emergent Methods in Social Research. 2008. Hesse-Biber, S. The Impact of Emergent Technologies on research Methods (pp. 517-524). In Hesse-Biber and Leavy, Handbook of Emergent Methods in Social Research. 2008. Hesse-Biber, S. and Crofts, C. User-Centered Perspectives on Qualitative Data Analysis Software: emergent Technologies and Future Trends (pp. 655-674). In Hesse-Biber and Leavy, Handbook of Emergent Methods in Social Research. 2008. Hesse-Biber, S. N. Teaching Grounded Theory. In Bryant and Charmaz (Eds.), The Handbook of Grounded Theory. Sage Publications, 2007. Hesse-Biber, S. N. Handbook of Feminist Research (editor). Sage Publications, 2007. Hesse-Biber, S. N. Cult of Thinness. Oxford University Press, 2007. Hesse-Biber, S., Leavy, P., Quinn, C.E., and Zoino, J. The Mass Marketing of Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders: The Social Psychology of Women, Thinness and Culture. Women s Studies International Forum. 2006. Hesse-Biber, S. N. The Practice of Qualitative Research (co-author). Sage, 2006. Hesse-Biber, S. N. Emergent Methods in Social Research (co-editor). Sage, 2006. Hesse-Biber, S. N. and Carter, G. Working Women in America: Split Dreams. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, 2005. Hesse-Biber, S. and Yaiser, M. (Editors). Feminist Perspectives in Social Research. Oxford University Press, 2004. Hesse-Biber, S. and Leavy, P. (Editors). Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice. Oxford University Press, 2004. HyperRESEARCH: A Computer Program for the Analysis of Qualitative Data: Manual and Software for McIntosh and Windows/IBM Version 3.01. With Paul Dupuis and T. Scott Kinder (Mountain View, CA. Sage Publications, 2000). Website: researchware.com.
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