Andrew Bennett is Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University.  He is the President of the American Political Science Association Section on Qualitative Methods, the Vice President of the Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods, and the co-author, with Alexander George, of Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005).

Dept. of Government
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057
Phone: 202 687-5800
E-mail: bennetta@georgetown.edu

 

Kathleen Blee is Professor of Sociology, Women's Studies, and History at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of three books, including Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement (2002) and The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. (2000, with Dwight Billings) and the editor of two books, including Feminism and Anti-Racism: International Struggles for Justice (1998, with France Winddance Twine). Her research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Maurice Falk Medical Fund, Fund for Research on Dispute Resolution, Ford Foundation, Aspen Institute, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Department of Sociology
2400 WWPH
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA 15260
(412) 648-7590 phone
(412) 648-2799 fax
E-mail: kblee@pitt.edu

 

John Bowen is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and studies problems of pluralism, law, and religion, and in particular contemporary efforts to rethink Islamic norms and law in Asia, Europe, and North America His most recent book on Asia is Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning (Cambridge, 2003) , and his forthcoming book from Princeton, Why the French Don't Like Headscarves, concerns current debates in France on islâm and laïcité.

7 Fairwinds Ct
St. Louis MO 63132
E-mail: jbowen@wustl.edu

Don Brenneis is a linguistic and social anthropologist. His earlier major research focused on language and conflict in a rural Info-Fijian community, considering in some detail the role of language as social practice in generating, pursuing, and attempting to remedy disputes within and beyond the village, including in the district court. He's therefore written a great deal on oratory, gossip, narratives, verbal abuse, and other forms of talk and performance through which local social life is negotiated. More recently he has been focusing on communicative and interactive dimensions of peer review as a crucial but generally invisible process in the shaping of American anthropology and social science more broadly, drawing in part on his experience as an editor, in part on his time as a participant in many research funding panels, and in part on a broader range of bureaucratic and institutional contexts in which both anthropology as a discipline and law and society as a field of interdisciplinary inquiry are defined and transformed.

Department of Anthropology
U.C.S.C.
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Vox (831)459-3855
E-mail: brenneis@cats.ucsc.edu

 

David Collier (Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley) works in comparative politics, Latin American poli­tics, and methodology. His latest book is Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), of which he is co-editor and co-author with his Berkeley colleague Henry E. Brady. Collier is engaged in ongoing projects with Brady on the challenges of integrating quantitative and qualitative methods, and of using this integrated perspective to gain new leverage in conceptualization, measurement, and causal inference. A number of Collier's methodological articles have combined a focus on the analysis of concepts, understood as an indispensable part of methodology, with his interest in the analytic problems that arise in studying democ­racy, authoritarianism, and regime change. These articles include “ Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research” ( American Political Science Review , 2001) and “Democracy and Dichotomies: A Pragmatic Approach to Choices About Concepts” ( Annual Review of Political Science , 1999), both written with Robert Adcock. Collier was Founding Transitional President of the new APSA Qualitative Methods Section.

Address:
Professor David Collier
University of California
Department of Political Science
210 Barrows Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1950
Tel: (510) 642-8168
E-mail: dcollier@berkeley.edu

 

John L. Comaroff is the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago is also a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation. His current research in post-apartheid South Africa is on crime, policing, and the workings of the state, on democracy and difference, and on the nature of postcolonial politics. Recent publications include, with Jean Comaroff, Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism (2000) and "Criminal Obsessions, After Foucault" (Critical Inquiry, 2004).

Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Phones:
773 702 8551 (U. Chicago, assistant)
312 988 6528 (American Bar Foundation)
E-mail: jcomarof@midway.uchicago.edu

 

Susan Bibler Coutin holds a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology and is associate professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine. Her research has examined social, political, and legal activism surrounding immigration issues, particularly immigration from El Salvador to the United States. Her first book, The Culture of Protest: Religious Activism and the U.S. Sanctuary Movement (1993) analyzed how congregations that declared themselves "sanctuaries" for Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees constructed a means and a language of protesting U.S. refugee and foreign policy in the 1980s. Her second book, Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants Struggle for U.S. Residency (2000), analyzed how Salvadoran immigrants negotiated their legal identities in the United States in the 1990s, a period characterized by immigration reform in the U.S. and post-war reconstruction in El Salvador. Her current project identifies the new and not-so-new forms of citizenship and belonging that are being forged as Salvadoran immigrants in the U.S. negotiate their relationships to their countries of origin and residence.

Dept of Criminology
Law and Society School of Social Ecology
UC Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
Phone: (949) 824-1447
E-mail: scoutin@uci.edu

 

Colin Elman is assistant professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. Elman is (with Miriam Fendius Elman) the
co-editor of Progress in International Relations Theory: Appraising the Field (MIT Press, 2003); and Bridges and Boundaries:
Historians, Political Scientists, and the Study of International Relations (MIT Press, 2001); and (with John Vasquez) of
Realism and the Balancing of Power: A New Debate (Prentice Hall, 2003). Elman has published articles in International
Organization, the American Political Science Review, and other journals; and is currently working on a book investigating
America's rise to dominance in the Western Hemisphere, Regional Hegemony: The United States and Offensive Realism, 1803-1898
(contract from Cambridge University Press, UK). Elman is Secretary-Treasurer of both the International History and Politics
and Qualitative Methods organized sections of the American Political Science Association, and co-founder and Executive
Director of the Consortium for Qualitative Research Methods.

Arizona State University
Box 873902
Tempe, AZ 85287-3902
(480) 965-1313
E-mail: colin.elman@asu.edu

Wendy Nelson Espeland is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. She works in the areas of law, culture and organizations. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992. Her publications include The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity (University of Chicago Press) and a series of articles about commensuration, the turning of qualities into quantities. She is currently conducting research on the effects of media rankings on higher education and the history of efforts to measure sexual preference and its implications for identity politics.  In 2000-2001 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and in 2004 had a visiting fellowship at the Australia National University.

Wendy N. Espeland
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL.
E-mail: wne741@northwestern.edu

 

Linda C. Garro is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut and the University of California , Los Angeles . Her research activities are in the areas of medical and psychological anthropology and center on the following topics: representing cultural knowledge about illness; variability in cultural knowledge; health care decision making; health concerns in everyday life; illness narratives; and remembering as a social, cultural and cognitive process. Research sites include a Purépecha (Tarascan) community in Mexico , several Anishinaabe (Ojibway) communities in Canada , and middle-class families in urban Los Angeles . She is co-author, with James C. Young, of Medical Choice in a Mexican Village (1994, Waveland) and co-editor, with Cheryl Mattingly, of Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing (2000, University of California Press ). Her articles have appeared in American Anthropologist; American Ethnologist; Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry; Ethos; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Social Science and Medicine; Transcultural Psychiatry; and other journals. She has been a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow in Clinically Relevant Medical Anthropology at Harvard University and is a past recipient of a five-year National Health Research and Development Program Scholar Award in Canada . In 1999, she received the Stirling Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

Department of Anthropology
341 Haines Hall - Box 951553
University of California , Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles , CA 90095-1553
Phone: (310) 206-6249
Email:  lgarro@anthro.ucla.edu

 

John Gerring is currently associate professor of political science at Boston University , where he teaches courses on methodology, comparative politics, and American politics. He spent the 2002-03 academic year as a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , NJ . His books include Party Ideologies in America , 1828-1996 (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Framework (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Case Study Research: Principles and Practices (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), Global Justice: A Pragmatic Approach (under review), and Centripetalism: A Theory of Democratic Governance (with Strom Thacker; under review). His articles have appeared, or are forthcoming, in American Political Science Review , British Journal of Political Science , International Organization , Journal of Policy History , Journal of Theoretical Politics , Party Politics , Political Research Quarterly , Polity , Social Science History , and Studies in American Political Development . He is editor of Qualitative Methods: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Qualitative Methods and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Politics .

John Gerring
16 Francis Avenue
Cambridge 02138
Phone: 857-204-3565
E-mail: jgerring@bu.edu

Wendy Griswold, Professor of Sociology and Comparative Literary Studies, and affiliated with English Professor Griswold holds a Ph.D. from Harvard (1980) and has previously taught there and at the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching interests center on cultural sociology; sociological approaches to literature, art and religion; time and place; and comparative studies in Europe and Africa. Recent books include Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and The Novel in Nigeria (Princeton UP, 2000) and Cultures and Societies in a Changing World (Pine Forge 1994), which has been translated into Japanese and Italian. She is currently writing a book on cultural regionalism entitled Regionalism and the Reading Class. Professor Griswold directs the Culture and Society Workshop at Northwestern.

Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
1810 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330
Telephone: (847) 491-2701
E-mail: w-griswold@northwestern.edu

 

Michèle Lamont is currently Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. The prime focus of Michèle Lamont's research has been how culture is used to create and maintain boundaries between categories of people and how these symbolic boundaries generate and perpetuate social and economic inequality. Some of her published works related to culture and inequality include Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class (1992) and The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration (2000). Some of her other research focuses on comparative sociology, contemporary sociological theory, and definitions of excellence in higher education. She is currently at work on a book about how people who serve on funding panels in the social sciences and the humanities understand academic excellence. She is also conducting a comparative study of anti-racist rhetoric across societies that present markedly different systems of inequality.

510 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
E-mail: mlamont@wjh.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-496-0645

 

Jody Miller is Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She was awarded the 2001 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology. Dr. Miller specializes in feminist theory and qualitative research methods. Her research focuses on gender, crime and victimization, particularly in the contexts of youth gangs, urban communities, and the commercial sex industry. Miller's monograph, One of the Guys: Girls, Gangs and Gender, was published by Oxford University Press in 2001. She has published numerous articles and book chapters, including in Criminology, Social Problems, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. Dr. Miller is a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR). She is a deputy editor of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and serves on several additional editorial boards. She is also a member of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America's National Advisory Board on Youth Gangs and Delinquency. Most recently, she has been involved in two research projects. The first is an NCOVR-funded study of gender violence (sexual assault and coercion, sexual harassment and intimate partner violence) against urban African American girls in St. Louis . The second is a study of the commercial sex industry in Sri Lanka , partially funded by a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award.

Joane Nagel is University Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas . She has served as Sociology Department Chair and Associate Dean of Social Sciences at Kansas and Sociology Program Officer at the National Science Foundation. Her recent books include American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture ( Oxford 1997) and Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers (Oxford 2003).

Department of Sociology
1415 Jayhawk Boulevard
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
785-864-4114 (office)
E-mail: nagel@ku.edu
http://www.people.ku.edu/~nagel

Gery Ryan is a senior behavioral scientist working for the RAND Corporation – a nonprofit institution that for over 50 years has addressed social and economic challenges facing public and private sectors around the world. Ryan was trained as a medical anthropologist and has conducted research on decision-making processes, ethnographies of health care and education systems , and the integration of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Over the last 10 years, Ryan has done extensive fieldwork on medical decision making in Africa, Latin America and the United States, including modeling how laypeople in rural Cameroon make general medical choices (Ryan 1995, 1998); how mothers in Mexico treat childhood illnesses (Ryan & Martinez 1996, Martinez et al. 1997, 1998) and how HIV+ individuals decide to adhere to antiretroviral medications (Ryan & Wagner 2003, Wager & Ryan 2004). Ryan also specializes in applying systemic methods to qualitative research and designing tools to evaluate attitudes and beliefs health-related topics. He has taught graduate courses in advanced ethnographic methods and text analysis and has run qualitative workshops sponsored by NSF, NIH, and CDC and has published widely on qualitative methods (Ryan, 1999, 2004; Ryan & Bernard 2000, 2003; Bernard & Ryan 1998; Ryan et al., 1996, 2000). He has over 15 years of experience conducting and analyzing semi-structured interviews and running methods seminars in the United States and abroad.

RAND Corporation
1776 Main Street
P.O. Box 2138
Santa Monica , CA 90407-2138
Phone: 310-393-0411 x7925
E-mail: Gery_Ryan@rand.org

 

Mario Luis Small is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Faculty Associate at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Small's research has focused on urban poverty, inequality and culture, and migration from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. His recent work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology and Annual Review of Sociology . For his paper, “ Culture, Cohorts, and Social Organization Theory: Understanding Local Participation in a Latino Housing Project,” he received the Robert E. Park Award for Best Paper in community and urban sociology (2004) from the American Sociological Association. He recently published, Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio (2004, University of Chicago Press), which examines social capital in a Boston housing complex inhabited primarily by Puerto Rican immigrants and argues for a conditional approach to ethnographic case studies. The book received Honorable Mention from the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award (2005) of the Eastern Sociological Society. Small is currently working on two projects. The first is a quantitative study of the distribution of for-profit and non-profit establishments across neighborhoods, testing the theory that the concentration of poverty threatens the viability of businesses and organizations. The second is a qualitative and quantitative study of the mechanisms by which childcare centers, as neighborhood institutions, serve as sources for poor parents to build social capital. This work is based on fieldwork in New York City and survey data at the local and national levels.

Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: 609-258-6970
E-mail: msmall@princeton.edu


David A. Snow is Professor of Sociology at UC-Irvine. His teaching and research interests include collective action and social movements, qualitative field methods, social psychology with an emphasis on self and identity from a symbolic interactionist perspective, changes in cognitive orientation and interpretive perspective, and socioeconomic inequality and marginality with an emphasis on homelessness and poverty. He is the author of over 75 articles and chapters on these various topics, as well as the author of a number of books, including Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People (with Leon Anderson), winner of numerous scholarly awards, Shakubuku: A Study of the Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist Movement in America, 1960-1975, and The Blackwell Companition to Social Movements (edited with Sarah Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi). His current work includes analysis of social movement activity among the homeless across U.S. cities, research on framing processes in relation to social movements, and involvement as the Principal Investigator of an NSF-funded interdisciplinary, comparative study of homelessness in four global cities (Los Angeles, Paris, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo). He also is currently writing A Primer on Social Movements for Norton Publishing (with Sarah Soule). Professor Snow is past President of both the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and the Pacific Sociological Association. He has served on the Council of the American Sociological Association and the Board of Directors of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and was recently a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Department of Sociology
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
(949) 824-9323
E-Mail: dsnow@uci.edu



Kathleen Thelen is Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and permanent external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne Germany.  Thelen studies the origins, evolution, and effects of the institutional arrangements that define distinctive varieties of capitalism across the developed democracies. Her most recent books are:  How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan, Cambridge University Press, 2004, and Beyond Continuity:  Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (edited with Wolfgang Streeck), Oxford University Press 2005.  Thelen has received awards and fellowships from the Max Planck Society, the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas in Mexico City, the Society for Comparative Research, the National Science Foundation, the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, among others. She serves on the editorial boards of World Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Governance, Industrielle Beziehungen, and Economic and Industrial Democracy (Stockholm). She is Chair of the Executive Council of the Council for European Studies and has served on the executive boards of the American Political Science Association organized sections on: Comparative Politics, Qualitative Methods, European Politics and Society, and Politics and History. 

Department of Political Science
Northwestern University
Scott Hall
Evanston Illinois 60208
telephone: 847-491-2625
E-mail: thelen@northwestern.edu

Lisa Wedeen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.  Her areas of interest include comparative politics, Middle East studies, and political theory.  She is the author of Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria (1999). Among her articles are "Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science" (American Political Science Review, December 2002) and "Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State: Exemplary Events in Unified Yemen" (Comparative Studies in Society and History, October 2003).  She is currently working on a book entitled Peripheral Visions: Political Identifications in Unifeid Yemen.

Department of Political Science
The University of Chicago
5828 South University Ave.
Chicago, IL  60637
Phone number: 773-702-8065
E-mail: l-wedeen@uchicago.edu

Susan C. Weller, is a Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch , Galveston , Texas. Over the past 25 years, research has focused on data colelction and analysis. She has two books on methods: Systematic Data Collection (Weller & Romney, Sage Pub, 1988) covers a wide variety of interviewing and data collection methods and Metric Scaling (Weller & Romney, Sage Pub., 1990) covers multivariate techniques of principal components, multidimensional scaling, and correspondence analysis. In the past eight years, she has been the co-director and a teacher in the National Science Foundation's Summer Institute for Research Design. Her research interests focus on minority health issues with a focus on the measurement of beliefs. Her research concerns the measurement of beliefs and practices among Latinos in Guatemala , Mexico , South Texas, and Connecticut . Papers include studies of Latino beliefs about AIDS/SIDA, diabetes, asthma, the common cold, and folk illnesses. Recent work has focused on diabetes. She is also the co-author on the meta-analysis of condom effectiveness for sexually transmitted HIV (Davis & Weller 1999; see also Weller & Davis 2001 in the Cochrane Libraries) and served on the U.S. (NIH, NCI, CDC) consensus panel to summarize research concerning condoms and sexually transmitted diseases.

E-mail: sweller@utmb.edu

Alford A. Young, Jr. is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate Professor of Sociology and in the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. Since joining the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1996 (his only academic appointment since completing graduate studies) he has pursued research on low-income, urban-based African Americans, employees at an automobile manufacturing plant, African American scholars and intellectuals, and the classroom-based experiences of faculty as they pertain to diversity and multiculturalism. Professor Young employs ethnographic interviewing as his primary data collection method. His principal scholarly objective has been to explore how the social experiences of African Americans shapes the emergence of (depending on the analytical objective at hand) worldviews, belief systems, and ideologies. His work has explored the connections between the social location of actors and the content of their worldviews, beliefs systems, and ideologies. Professor Young has published The Minds of Marginalized Black Men: Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances (Princeton University Press 2004) and he has published articles in Sociological Theory, The Annual Review of Sociology, and other journals.

Room 278
205B West Hall
Phone: 734 647-4444
E-mail: ayoun@umich.edu

Christopher Zorn is currently Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University. He is also serving as the Program Director for the Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation. His research specialization is American politics and quantitative methods. His current research examines a range of topics in American political institutions, including federal government litigation, U.S. Supreme Court agenda-setting, and separation-of-powers models, as well as research on event count, survival, and repeated-measures models for quantitative research. He is the author of numerous articles in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and other journals. He is a past winner of the Edward S. Corwin Award and the American Judicature Society Award (twice), and a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellowship.

Department of Political Science
Emory University
1555 Pierce Drive
Atlanta, GA 30322
Phone: (404) 727-6615
E-mail: czorn@emory.edu