Mirka E. Koro is a professor of qualitative research. Koro's scholarship operates in the intersection of methodology, philosophy, and socio-cultural critique. Her work aims to contribute to methodological knowledge, experimentation, and theoretical development across various traditions associated with qualitative research. She specifically works with theories from post-positivism to new materialism, from domain analysis to rhizoanalysis and post-human critique.
Professor Koro has studied and written about research designs broadly defined, data, different methods, research participation, validity, representation, writing, and various problems with simplicity, technicality, and neoliberal pressures affecting contemporary qualitative research. Professor Koro is currently involved in multiple methodological and conceptual projects including data, methodologies without methodologies, decentering and rethinking academic-writing-conference-machine, and potentialities associated with knowledge.
Ph.D. University of Helsinki, Finland
Qualitative research, theories, methodologies, participant-driven research projects, creativity in research design
Current Research Projects:
Project name: Data in qualitative research: definitions, purposes, and functions. This methodological project investigates data as a concept an function in qualitative research.
Project name: Sound Encounters and the uninformed potential (of the undocumented, noise and gossip). In this project we explore the possibilities of sound and video in qualitative research drawing from our work with undocumented college students.
Project name: Philosophies and practices of slowness in methodology. This international collaborative project studies slowness methodologies from philosophical, theoretical, and practical angles.
Koro-Ljungberg, M. (2016) Reconceptualizing qualitative research: Methodologies without methodology. Sage.
Koro-Ljungberg, M., Löytönen, T., & Tesar, M. (2017) (Eds.). Disrupting data in qualitative inquiry: Entanglements with the Post-Critical and Post-Anthropocentric. Peter Lang.
Koro-Ljungberg, M., Carlson, D., Tesar, M. & Anderson, K. (2015). Methodology brut: Philosophy, ecstatic thinking, and some other (unfinished) things. Qualitative Inquiry, 21(7), 612-619.
- Koro-Ljungberg,Mirka*. Implementing Guided Inquiry in Diverse Institutions. UNIV OF FLORIDA(1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015).
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EPA 799 | Dissertation |
| EPA 792 | Research |
| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EPA 691 | Seminar |
| DCI 691 | Seminar |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
| EPA 799 | Dissertation |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 792 | Research |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EPA 792 | Research |
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EPA 799 | Dissertation |
| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EPA 691 | Seminar |
| COE 503 | Intro to Qualitative Research |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
| EPA 799 | Dissertation |
| COE 503 | Intro to Qualitative Research |
| DCI 691 | Seminar |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EPA 799 | Dissertation |
| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EPA 691 | Seminar |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
| EPA 799 | Dissertation |
| COE 503 | Intro to Qualitative Research |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 784 | Internship |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EPA 799 | Dissertation |
| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EPA 691 | Seminar |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
| EPA 799 | Dissertation |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
| DCI 691 | Seminar |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 792 | Research |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
| DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EPA 691 | Seminar |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
| COE 503 | Intro to Qualitative Research |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 792 | Research |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
| DCI 792 | Research |
| EPA 691 | Seminar |
2019 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| DCI 799 | Dissertation |
| DCI 795 | Continuing Registration |
| EPA 795 | Continuing Registration |
| COE 691 | Seminar |