Qualitative Sociology Review
2011
Volume VII Issue 1


Contributors

Robert Prus is a Sociologist at the University of Waterloo, Canada. A symbolic interactionist and ethnographer, Robert Prus has been examining the conceptual and methodological connections of American pragmatist philosophy and its sociological offshoot, symbolic interactionism, with Classical Greek and Latin scholarship.

Contact: prus@uwaterloo.ca

Jeni Loftus is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Purdue University. Her research focuses on gender, health, family, sexuality and social psychology. Among her current research projects are a study on the causes and consequences of age discordant relationships among adolescents and a study of the social psychological effects of female infertility. Her research has appeared in journals such as American Sociological Review, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Sociological Focus and The Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Contact: jml@purdue.edu

Paul Namaste Ph.D is a sociologist who earned his degree from Indiana University - Bloomington. His main research interests revolve either around issues of self & identity or the effects of higher education on race, class & gender inequality. Paul is currently the head of the survey research division at Performa Higher Education, a consulting firm that works with small, private colleges throughout the United States.

Contact: paulnamaste@gmail.com

Annalisa Murgia is member of the Research Unit on Communication, Organizational Learning and Aesthetics, and of the Centre of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Trento (Italy), where she is lecturer for the Master in Gender Policies in the Labour World. Her researches focus on work trajectories, with special regard to workers with non-standard and precarious jobs, and on the social construction of gender in professional careers.

Contact: annalisa.murgia@unitn.it

Maritza Felices-Luna came from Peru to study Criminology at the Université de Montréal where she conducted her master's and Ph.D research on internal armed conflict. She is currently assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. Her research and teaching areas of interest are political violence, armed conflict and qualitative methodology. She has conducted fieldworks in Peru, Belfast and Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Contact: mfelices@uottawa.ca