Mary Brydon-Miller, Ph.D.
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Biography
Mary Brydon-Miller is an Associate Professor of Urban Educational Leadership and Educational Foundations at the University of Cincinnati. She is a participatory action researcher who engages in both community-based and educational action research. She co-edited the books, Traveling Companions: Feminism, Teaching, and Action Research (with Patricia Maguire and Alice McIntyre), From Subjects to Subjectivities: A Handbook of Interpretive and Participatory Methods (with Deborah Tolman) , and Voices of Change: Participatory Research in the United States and Canada (with Peter Park, Budd Hall, and Ted Jackson). Her other publications include work on participatory action research methods, academic writing in the social sciences, elder advocacy, and disability rights. Her current scholarship focuses on ethics and action research and she has recently completed work on a special issue of the journal Action Resarch on this subject. Her current research focuses on the uses of art and photography in the area of family literacy with recently arrived refugee families. She is also on the editorial board of Action Research and is launching a new interdisciplinary Action Research Center to be housed in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services at the University of Cincinnati. She teaches courses in action research, the theoretical foundations of urban educational leadership, and research ethics.