Patricia Leavy

Patricia Leavy, PhD is an award winning independent scholar, writer and speaker. She was formerly an Associate Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of Gender Studies at Stonehill College.

Education

Leavy earned her B.A. from Boston University and then proceeded to Boston College for her M.A. and Ph.D..

Areas of interest, contribution and influence

Arts Based Research (ABR)

She is an internationally recognized leader in ABR and qualitative research. In fact, she is widely considered the world’s most visible proponent of arts-based research as a means of making research publicly accessible

Awards and Recognition

--2014 American Creativity Association, Special Achievement Award, honoring achievements in innovation and creativity

--2015 Special Career Achievement Award from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

--2016 Influencer by Mogul (website), along with Chelsea Clinton, Nina Garcia, and Melissa Etheridge

--2016 USA Best Book Awards - Method Meets Art 2nd Edition was honored as a finalist

Publications

Fiction

Leavy, Patricia. Blue. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2016. Print.

Leavy, Patricia. Low-Fat Love. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2011. Print.

Leavy, Patricia. Low-Fat Love, Expanded Anniversary Edition. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2015. Print.

Leavy, Patricia. American Circumstance. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2013. Print.

Leavy, Patricia. American Circumstance: Anniversary Edition. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2016. Print.

Leavy, Patricia. Low-Fat Love Stories. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2016. Print.

Nonfiction

Leavy, Patricia. Method Meets Art: Arts-based Research Practice. New York: Guilford Press, 2014. Print.

Leavy, Patricia. Method Meets Art, Second Edition: Arts-based Research Practice. New York: Guilford Press, 2015. Print.

Leavy, Patricia. The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Print.

Leavy, Patricia and Adrienne M. Trier-Bieniek. Gender and Pop Culture: A Text Reader. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2014. Print.

Leavy, Patricia. Fiction as Research Practice: Short Stories, Novellas, and Novels. Routledge, 2016. Print.

Leavy, Patricia. Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research: Using Problem Centered Methodologies. Routledge, 2011. Print.

Leavy, Patricia. Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Print.

Leavy, Patricia. Iconic Events: Media, Politics, and Power in Retelling History. Lexington Books, 2007. Print.

Leavy, Patricia and Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. The Practice of Qualitative Research. SAGE Publications, Inc., 2010. Print.

Leavy, Patricia and Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. Feminist Research Practice: A Primer. SAGE Publications, Inc., 2006. Print.

Leavy, Patricia and Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. Handbook of Emergent Methods. New York: Guilford Press, 2008. Print.

Leavy, Patricia and Keri E. Iyall Smith. Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations. Studies in Critical Social Science, 2009. Print.

Leavy, Patricia and Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. Emergent Methods in Social Research. SAGE Publications, Inc., 2006. Print.

Leavy, Patricia and Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Print.

Leavy, Patricia. Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches. New York: Guilford Press, 2017. Print.

Leavy, Patricia. Handbook of Arts-Based Research. New York: Guilford Press, 2017. Print.

Book Series

Teaching Writing (Brill Publishers)

Teaching Race & Ethnicity (Brill Publishers)

Teaching Gender (Brill Publishers)

Social Fictions (Brill Publishers)

Understanding Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press)

References

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