About the Author
Jessica Smartt Gullion
(PhD) is Associate Dean of Research for the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Woman’s University. She is also an Associate Professor of Sociology, Affiliate Faculty of Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies, and Director of the Social Science and Humanities Research Methods graduate certificate program. She teaches a variety of courses on qualitative research methods and on medical and environmental sociology.
She has published more than 35 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Her writing has appeared in such journals as the International Review of Qualitative Research, the Journal of Applied Social Science, and Qualitative Inquiry. Her essays and Op-Eds have appeared in a variety of outlets, including Newsweek, The Conversation, Alternet, and Inside Higher Ed, and she is regularly quoted by national media.
Other books by the author:
- –Doing Ethnography. With Susan Harper (Guilford, forthcoming).
- –Qualitative Research in Health and Illness (Oxford University Press, 2022).
- –Researching With: A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research. With Abigail Tilton (Brill | Sense, 2020).
Finalist for the 2021 International Book Awards (Academic)
- –Diffractive Ethnography: Social Science and the Ontological Turn (Routledge, 2018).
Received Honorable Mention for the 2019 book of the year from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
- –Writing Ethnography (Sense, 2016).
Named in the top 10 Sense Social Science books, 2017.
- –Fracking the Neighborhood: Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling (The MIT Press, 2015; reprinted in paperback 2017; reprinted on Kindle 2020).
Finalist for the 2016 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award (American Sociological Association Medical Sociology Section).
- –October Birds: A Novel about Pandemic Influenza, Infection Control, and First Responders (Sense, 2014).
Edited anthologies:
- –Redefining Disability. With Paul Bones and Danielle Barber (Brill | Sense, 2020).
- –In Sickness and in Health: Sociological Perspectives on Healthcare. With John Malek-Ahmadi (Cognella, 2015).
- –Voices in Sociology: An Introduction to the Core Concepts. With Cynthia T. Cook, Helen Brethauer-Gay, and Amitra Hodge-Wall (Cognella, 2011).