Sharlene Hesse-Biber

Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber

Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber is professor of sociology and the director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She has published widely on the impact of sociocultural fac¬tors on women’s body image, including her book Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity (Oxford, 1996), which was selected as one of Choice magazine’s best academic books for 1996. She recently published The Cult of Thinness (Oxford, 2007. She is coeditor of Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice (Oxford, 2004), and Emergent Methods in Social Research (SAGE, 2006). She is author of The Practice of Qualitative Research (SAGE, Third edition forthcoming, 2016). She is editor of the Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis (SAGE, 2nd Edition, 2012), which was selected as one of the Critics’ Choice Award winners by the American Education Studies Association and was also chosen as one of Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic titles for 2007. She is editor of Feminist Research Practice: A Primer (SAGE, 2014). She publishes widely on mixed methods research and her publications appear in Qualitative Health Research (QHR), Qualitative Inquiry (QI) and The Journal of Mixed Methods Research (JMMR). She was appointed an associate editor of JMMR. She is coeditor of the Handbook of Emergent Methods (Guilford, 2008). She is author of Mixed Methods Research: Merging Theory with Practice (Guilford, 2010). Her most recent co-edited book with R. Burke Johnson is titled The Oxford Handbook of Multimethod and Mixed Methods Research Inquiry (Oxford, 2015). She has recently published a monograph, Waiting for Cancer to Come: Genetic Testing and Women’s Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer (University of Michigan Press, 2014). She is co-developer of the software program HyperRESEARCH, a computer-assisted program for analyzing qualitative and mixed methods data, and the new tran-scription tool HyperTRANSCRIBE. A fully functional free demo of these pro¬grams is available at www.researchware.com. This website provides links to a free teaching edition for both programs.

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