Education
- M.F.A. Drama (Creative Drama and Theatre for Youth); minor: Library Science and Speech, University of Texas-Austin 1979
- B.A. Drama and English Education, University of Texas-Austin 1976
Research Interests
Qualitative Research, Qualitative Data Analysis, Arts-Based Research, Ethnotheatre and Ethnodrama
Publications
- Longitudinal Qualitative Research: Analyzing Change through Time (AltaMira Press, 2003)
- The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (4th ed., Sage Publishing, 2021; previous editions translated into Korean, Turkish, and Chinese-Simplified; 5th ed. in press for 2025)
- Fundamentals of Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press, 2011)
- Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage (Left Coast Press, 2011)
- Thinking Qualitatively: Methods of Mind (Sage Publishing, 2015)
- Developing Theory Through Qualitative Inquiry (Sage Publishing, 2025)
- a commissioned title for Routledge’s World Library of Educationalists Series, Writing Qualitatively: The Selected Works of Johnny Saldaña (Routledge, 2018)
- co-author with the late Matthew B. Miles and A. Michael Huberman for Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook (4th ed., Sage Publishing, 2020; translated into Korean; 5th ed. in development for 2027)
- co-author with Matt Omasta for Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life (2nd ed., Sage Publishing, 2022; 3rd ed. commissioned by Sage for 2027)
- co-editor with Charles Vanover and Paul Mihas for Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Research: After the Interview (Sage Publishing, 2022)
- editor of Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre (AltaMira Press, 2005)