Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Dr. Dana Malone’s inspiration for researching in her own backyard, why she chose to do qualitative research for her dissertation and her first book, how she managed her insider/outside status, what bracketing is, using feminist research ethics, and how she dealt with gatekeepers.

Our guest is: Dr. Dana M. Malone, a dynamic scholar-practitioner with a diverse portfolio of experiences in higher education. She specializes in the intersection of gender, sexuality, and religious identities as well as student success, assessment planning and program evaluation. Currently, Dr. Malone is an Independent Scholar, based in the Philadelphia area, writing, teaching, speaking, and working with institutions on a contract basis. She provides invited talks on her book, From Single to Serious: Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality on American Evangelical Campuses (Rutgers University Press), and she teaches in the M.Ed. in Higher Education Leadership and Social Justice Program at Bellarmine University. She is also the co-producer and co-host of The Academic Life channel. When she’s not engaging in the academic life, Dana can be found enjoying a good latte with family and friends, wandering the Jersey shore, and spending time on her yoga mat. Connect at danammalone.com.

Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, co-producer of the Academic Life.

Listeners to this episode may also be interested in:

--From Single to Serious: Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality on American Evangelical Campuses by Dana M. Malone, published by Rutgers University Press

--Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approach (5^th ed) by John W. Creswell and J. David Creswell, published by SAGE

--Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods: Integrating Theory and Practice (4^th ed) by Michael Quinn Patton, published by SAGE

--Doing Feminist Research in Political and Social Science (2^nd ed) by Brooke Ackerly and Jacqui True

--Tufford, L. & Newman, P. (2010). Bracketing in Qualitative Research. Qualitative Social Work, 11(1), 80-96. DOI: 10.1177/1473325010368316

--Dr. Gessler and Dr. Malone’s conversation about sexuality on evangelical campuses: 

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