The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research

Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University, where she held the Ruth Harrington Chair of Educational Leadership and was Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. She is the coeditor of the journal Qualitative Inquiry, coeditor of the first through six editions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. As well, she is the coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than a half dozen other books and volumes. She has served as the President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Evaluation Research Association, and as the Vice President for Division J (Postsecondary Education) for the American Educational Research Association. She is the author of coauthor of more than 100 chapters and journal articles on aspects of higher education or qualitative research methods and methodologies. Gaile S. Cannella is an independent scholar who for many years served as a tenured Full Professor at Texas A&M University – College Station and at Arizona State University – Tempe, as well as the Velma Schmidt Endowed Chair of Education at the University of North Texas. Her scholarship focuses on diverse constructions of critical qualitative inquiry, reconceptualist and critical childhood studies, and justice broadly related to childhood, support for diversity, environmental studies and human/nonhuman conceptualizations and power orientations. Dr. Cannella’s work has appeared in more than 100 chapters and journal articles; she has authored or edited 11 books that include Childhood in More Just Worlds: An International Handbook; the Critical Qualitative Research Reader; Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education; Critical Qualitative Inquiry Foundations and Futures; and Childhood and Postcolonialism. She focuses on facilitating the work of critical scholars through both edited volumes and special journal issues and has initiated research projects that explore topics like racism in qualitative research, liminalities and hybrid lives, and justice matters(ings). Her doctoral students have received a range of national and international dissertation awards. Dr. Cannella also received the 2017 Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education and Care Bloch Career Award.