Kathy Charmaz is Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University. As developer of “constructive grounded theory,” she has integrated the classic grounded theory guidelines of Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss with methodological developments of the past forty years.

Adele Clarke is professor of sociology and history of health sciences at UCSF. Her book, Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn offers an extension of grounded theory method focused on mapping strategies.

Conveners/Facilitators/Presiders: Robert Milardo, Jennifer Hardesty, Ramona Faith Oswald