Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice

Patricia Leavy, PhD, is an independent sociologist and former Chair of Sociology and Criminology and Founding Director of Gender Studies at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of over 30 books, and the creator and editor of 10 book series. Known for her commitment to public scholarship, she is frequently contacted by the U.S. national news media and has blogged for The Huffington Post, The Creativity Post, and We Are the Real Deal. She is also co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Art/Research International. Dr. Leavy has received numerous awards for her work in the field of research methods, including the Distinguished Service Outside the Profession Award from the National Art Education Association, the New England Sociologist of the Year Award from the New England Sociological Association, the Special Achievement Award from the American Creativity Association, the Egon Guba Memorial Keynote Lecture Award from the American Educational Research Association Qualitative Special Interest Group, and the Special Career Award from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. In 2016, Mogul, a global women's empowerment platform, named her an Influencer. The School of Fine and Performing Arts at the State University of New York at New Paltz has established the Patricia Leavy Award for Art and Social Justice in her honor. Dr. Leavy delivers invited lectures and keynote addresses at universities and conferences. Her website is www.patricialeavy.com. Anne Harris, PhD, is Associate Professor and Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2017-2021) studying intercultural creativity. She is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) and Adjunct Professor at Monash University (Australia). She conducts research in the areas of gender, creativity, diversity, performance, and emerging digital ethnographies. She has worked as a playwright, teaching artist, and journalist in the United States and Australia. Dr. Harris has authored or coauthored over 60 articles and 13 books on gender and sexuality, creativity, the arts, and nondominant culture formations. She is the creator and series editor of the Palgrave book series Creativity, Education and the Arts, and recently completed an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award on the commodification of creativity. Her intercultural collaborative arts-based research can be seen at www.creativeresearchhub.com.