Emergent Methods in Social Research

Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. She is founder and director of The National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education. She is coeditor of several books, including Feminist Perspectives on Social Research (Oxford University Press, 2004); Approaches to Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press, 2004); Women in Catholic Higher Education: Border Work, Living Experiences and Social Justice ( Lexington, 2003); and Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology (Oxford University Press, 1999). She is coauthor of The Practice of Qualitative Research ( Sage Publication, 2006); Emergent Methods in Social Research (Sage Publications , 2006); Working Women in America:Split Dreams ( Oxford University Press, 2005) . She is the author of Am I Thin Enough Yet? ( Oxford University Press, 1996) Her book, The Cult of Thinness, is forthcoming with the Oxford University Press. She has written numerous articles in the fields of body image, qualitative methods, and computer approaches to qualitative data analysis. She is co-developer of HyperRESEARCH, (www.researchware.com) a computer software program for qualitative data analysis.