Review of The Mindful Qualitative Researcher, by Laura L. Lemon
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https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v32.4033Author Biographies
Lorien S. Jordan, University of South Florida
Lorien S. Jordan (PhD, University of Georgia) is an assistant professor of qualitative research at the University of South Florida. As a critical qualitative methodologist, Lorien interrogates and disrupts the cultural mechanisms of knowledge production and is specifically interested in the contextual and ethical dimensions of methodologies and methods. She is especially interested in the intersections of critical theories of whiteness and colonialism and creative, digital, and arts-based qualitative methods. Her scholarship is published in journals such as Qualitative Research, Cultural Studies <—> Critical Methodologies, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and the International Review of Qualitative Research. Lorien is an associate editor for the journal Qualitative Health Research and a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, University of South Florida
Jennifer Wolgemuth (PhD, Colorado State University) is professor of qualitative research in the University of South Florida's College of Education. Her scholarship focuses on ethics and validity of social science research. Drawing on critical, poststructural, and new materialist theories, she explores inquiry as an agential process that simultaneously investigates and creates lives and communities to and for which the researcher is responsible. Her work is published in journals such as Educational Researcher, Cultural Studies <—> Critical Methodologies, Qualitative Inquiry, Qualitative Research, and Qualitative Health Research. She is co-editor of the recent book, Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis: Creative Engagements with Qualitative Data and serves as Chair of the American Educational Research Association's Qualitative Research SIG (QR SIG).
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