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Qualitative Research Methods

Diversity and Research Methods

Achen, Christopher H. “Why Do We Need Diversity in the Political Methodology Society?” The Political Methodologist 21, no. 2 (2014): 25–28.

Almudena Cotán, Arecia Aguirre, Beatriz Morgado, and Noelia Melero. “Methodological Strategies of Faculty Members: Moving Toward Inclusive Pedagogy in Higher Education.” Sustainability 13, no. 6 (2021): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063031.

Barnes, Tiffany D. “Strategies for Improving Gender Diversity in the Methods Community: Insights from Political Methodologists and Social Science Research.” PS: Political Science & Politics 51, no. 3 (July 2018): 580–87. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096518000513.

Barnes, Tiffany D., Emily Beaulieu, and Yanna Krupnikov. “An Assessment of the Visions in Methodology Initiative: Directions for Increasing Women’s Participation.” The Political Methodologist 21, no. 2 (2014): 10–16. Google Scholar.

Beck, Nathaniel L. “Political Methodology: A Welcoming Discipline.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 95, no. 450 (2000): 651–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2000.10474244.

Bos, Angela L., and Monica C. Schneider. “Stepping Around the Brick Wall: Overcoming Student Obstacles in Methods Courses.” PS: Political Science & Politics 42, no. 2 (2009): 375–83. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096509090519.

Cassese, Erin C., Mirya R. Holman, Monica C. Schneider, and Angela L. Bos. “Building a Gender and Methodology Curriculum: Integrated Skills, Exercises, and Practices.” Journal of Political Science Education 11 (2015): 61–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2014.985106.

Chowdhury, Rumman. “Diversity and Political Methodology: A Graduate Student’s Perspective.” Newsletter of the Political Methodology Section 21, no. 2 (2014): 28. https://thepoliticalmethodologist.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/tpm_v21_n2_final.pdf.

Cotán, A., Aguirre, A., Morgado, B., & Melero, N. (2021). Methodological strategies of faculty members: Moving toward inclusive pedagogy in higher education. Sustainability 13, no. 6, 3031. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063031.

Dion, Michelle L. “An Effort to Increase Women’s Participation: The Visions in Methodology Initiative.” The Political Methodologist 21, no. 2 (2014): 6–8. Google Scholar.

Dion, Michelle L., Jane L. Sumner, and Sara M. Mitchell. “Gendered Citation Patterns Across Political Science and Social Science Methodology Fields.” Political Analysis 26, no. 3 (2018): 312–27. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/R7AQT1

Esarey, Justin. “Style, Substance, and the Impact on Gender Imbalance in Methods.” The Political Methodologist 21, no. 2 (2014). https://thepoliticalmethodologist.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/style-substance-and-the-impact-on-gender-imbalance-in-methods.

Esarey, Justin. “What Makes Someone a Political Methodologist?” PS: Political Science & Politics 51, no. 3 (2018): 588–96. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096518000525

Gatto, Malu AC, Anita R. Gohdes, Denise Traber, and Mariken ACG Van Der Velden. “Selecting In or Selecting Out? Gender Gaps and Political Methodology in Europe.” PS: Political Science & Politics 53, no. 1 (2020): 122–27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096519001288.

Harding, Sandra, ed. Feminism and Methodology: Social Science Issues. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Henshaw, Alexis Leanna. “Mainstreaming Gender in Research Methods.” In Teaching Research Methods in Political Science, edited by J. K. A. Allen and K. J. Lowery. London: Routledge, 2021, 222–33. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839101212.00025.

Krook, Mona Lena. “Teaching Gender and Politics: Feminist Methods in Political Science.” Qualitative & Multi-Method Research 7, no. 1 (2009): 23–29.

Jayaratne, Toby Epstein, and Abigail J. Stewart. “Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences: Current Feminist Issues and Practical Strategies.” In Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship as Lived Research, edited by Mary Margaret Fonow and Judith A. Cook, 85–106. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Leeper, Thomas J. “Am I a Methodologist? (Asking for a Friend).” PS: Political Science & Politics 51, no. 3 (2018): 602–6. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096518000549.

Maliniak, Daniel, Ryan Powers, and Barbara F. Walter. “Barriers to Women’s Participation in Political Methodology: Graduate School and Beyond.” Newsletter of the Political Methodology Section 21, no. 2 (2014): 2.

Mitchell, Sara McLaughlin, and Christopher H. Achen. “Shifting Standards for Political Methodologists? Historical Trends in the Society for Political Methodology.” PS: Political Science & Politics 51, no. 3 (2018): 585–91. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096518000501.

Morrow-Jones, Hazel, and Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier. “Implicit Bias and Why It Matters to the Field of Political Methodology.” The Political Methodologist 21, no. 2 (2014): 16–20.

Oakley, Ann. “Gender, Methodology and People’s Ways of Knowing: Some Problems with Feminism and the Paradigm Debate in Social Science.” Sociology 32, no. 4 (1998): 707–31. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038598032004005.

Perry, Brittany. “Expanding Opportunities for Underrepresented Students in Political Methodology: The Data Lab@ TAMUPOLS.” Political Science Today 1, no. 2 (2021): 23–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/psj.2021.29.

Perry, Brittany, Sarah Zuhlke, and Fernando Tormos-Aponte. “Building Infrastructure to Enhance Diversity in Political Methodology.” PS: Political Science & Politics 56, no. 1 (2023): 178–82. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096522000907.

Shames, Shauna L., and Tess Wise. “Gender, Diversity, and Methods in Political Science: A Theory of Selection and Survival Biases.” PS: Political Science & Politics 50, no. 3 (July 2017): 811–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S104909651700066X.

Shannon, Megan. “Barriers to Women’s Participation in Political Methodology: Graduate School and Beyond.” The Political Methodologist 21, no. 2 (2014): 2–6.

Shapiro, Ian, Rogers Smith, and Tarek E. Masoud. Problems and Methods in the Study of Political Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. 2nd ed. London: Zed Books, 2012.

Smith, Amy Erica, Shauna N. Gillooly, and Heidi Hardt. “Assessing Racial/Ethnic and Gender Gaps in Political Science PhD Students’ Methodological Self-Efficacy.” PS: Political Science & Politics 55, no. 1 (2022): 165–70. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096521001116.

Stauffer, Katelyn E., and Diana Z. O’Brien. “Fast Friends or Strange Bedfellows? Quantitative Methods and Gender and Politics Research.” European Journal of Politics and Gender 2, no. 2 (2019): 151–71. https://doi.org/10.1332/251510819X15538595080522.

Zuberi, Tukufu, and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, eds. White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.

Zwiener-Collins, Nadine, Juvaria Jafri, Rima Saini, and Tabitha Poulter. “Decolonising Quantitative Research Methods Pedagogy: Teaching Contemporary Politics to Challenge Hierarchies from Data.” Politics (2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957211041449.

Mentorship

Beaulieu, Emily, Amber E. Boydstun, Nadia E. Brown, Kim Yi Dionne, Andra Gillespie, Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, Melissa R. Michelson, Kathleen Searles, and Christina Wolbrecht. “Women Also Know Stuff: Meta-Level Mentoring to Battle Gender Bias in Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics 50, no. 3 (July 2017): 779–83. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096517000580.

Bennion, Elizabeth A. “The Importance of Peer Mentoring for Facilitating Professional and Personal Development.” PS: Political Science & Politics 37, no. 1 (2004): 111–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096504003841.

Bettez, Silvia Cristina. “Walking the Tightrope of Self-Care and Critical Mentoring.” In How We Got Here: The Role of Critical Mentoring and Social Justice Praxis, edited by Silvia Cristina Bettez and Michele G. Gislason, 45–57. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2020.

Biswas, Shampa. “Advice on Advising: How to Mentor Minority Students.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. March 2019. https://www.chronicle.com/article/advice-on-advising-how-to-mentor-minority-students/?sra=true.

Blau, Francine D., Janet M. Currie, Rachel T. A. Croson, and Donna K. Ginther. “Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial.” American Economic Review 100, no. 2 (May 2010): 348–52. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.2.348.

Boehmke, Frederick J. “Thoughts on Mentoring to Train and Retrain Methodologists.” The Political Methodologist 21, no. 2 (2014): 20–25.

Boyce, Ayesha. “Strategies for Mentoring and Advising Evaluation Graduate Students of Color.” The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation 35, no. 3 (2021): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe.69574.

Cassese, Erin C., and Mirya R. Holman. “Writing Groups as Models for Peer Mentorship among Female Faculty in Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics 51, no. 2 (April 2018): 401–5. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096517002049.

Ensher, Ellen A., and Susan E. Murphy. “Effects of Race, Gender, Perceived Similarity, and Contact on Mentor Relationships.” Journal of Vocational Behavior 50, no. 3 (1997): 460–81. https://doi.org/10.1006/jvbe.1996.1547.

Fattore, Christina, and Shauna F. Fisher. “Shifting from Replication to Recognition and Care: A Prescription for Improving Graduate Student Mentoring in Political Science.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 11, no. 4 (2023): 771–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2022.2044358.

Friedman, Daniela B., Brooks Yelton, Sara J. Corwin, James W. Hardin, Lucy A. Ingram, Toni M. Torres-McGehee, and Anthony J. Alberg. “Value of Peer Mentorship for Equity in Higher Education Leadership: A School of Public Health Focus with Implications for All Academic Administrators.” Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning 29, no. 5 (2021): 500–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13611267.2021.1986795.

Gooden, Mark Anthony, Cathryn A. Devereaux, and Nia E. Hulse. “#BlackintheIvory: Culturally Responsive Mentoring with Black Women Doctoral Students and a Black Male Mentor.” Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning 28, no. 4 (2020): 392–415. https://doi.org/10.1080/13611267.2020.1793083.

Griffin, K. A., V. L. Baker, and K. O’Meara. “Doing, Caring, and Being: ‘Good’ Mentoring and Its Role in the Socialization of Graduate Students of Color in STEM.” In Socialization in Higher Education and the Early Career: Theory, Research and Application, edited by J. C. Weidman and L. DeAngelo, 223–39. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020.

Kodama, Corinne Maekawa, and Christen E. Park. “More than Academics: The Transformative Effect of an Identity-Based Peer Mentor Program for Asian American STEM Students.” About Campus 26, no. 1 (2021): 17–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086482220969677.

Nocco, Mallika A., Bonnie M. McGill, Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Rebecca K. Tonietto, Joan Dudney, Molly C. Bletz, Talia Young, and Sara E. Kuebbing. “Mentorship, Equity, and Research Productivity: Lessons from a Pandemic.” Biological Conservation 255 (2021): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.108966.

Mendoza, Mary Anne S., and Samantha A. Vortherms. “Building a Supportive Mentoring Network.” APSA Preprints. 2022. https://doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2022-txjnp.

Sanczyk, A., L. R. Merriweather, C. D. Howell, and N. C. Douglas. “STEM Doctoral Mentoring: A Call for a Conscious, Culturally Responsive Journey.” International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education 10, no. 3 (2021): 284–97. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMCE-07-2020-0034.

Wright, G. Talib. “Counseling Black Men: The Thousand-Piece Puzzle.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. October 2014. https://www.chronicle.com/article/counseling-black-men-the-thousand-piece-puzzle/.

Tucker, Kathryn, Gwen Sharp, Shi Qingmin, Tony Scinta, and Sandip Thank. “Fostering Historically Underserved Students’ Success: An Embedded Peer Support Model that Merges Non-Cognitive Principles with Proven Academic Support Practices.” The Review of Higher Education 43, no. 3 (2020): 861–85. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2020.0010.

Vargas, J. H., C. L. Saetermoe, and G. Chavira. “Using Critical Race Theory to Reframe Mentor Training: Theoretical Considerations Regarding the Ecological Systems of Mentorship.” Higher Education 81 (2021): 1043–62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00598-z.

Williams June, Audrey. “Building ‘Bridge Leaders’ for Minority Professors and Students.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. March 2016. https://www.chronicle.com/article/building-bridge-leaders-for-minority-professors-and-students/.

Windsor, Leah C., and Cameron G. Thies. “Mentorship: ‘Men in the Middle’ and Their Role as Allies in Addressing Gender Bias.” PS: Political Science & Politics 54, no. 3 (2021): 502–4. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096521000044.

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