Laurel Richardson

Laurel Richardson is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at The Ohio State University. She is an international leader in qualitative research, gender, and the sociology of knowledge, and has published widely in those areas. Her latest book, Last Writes: A Daybook for a Dying Friend will be available from Left Coast Press in June 2007.

Fields of Play: Constructing an Academic Life, was honored with the Cooley Award for the Best Book of 1998. Her recently published Travels With Ernest: Crossing the Literary-Ethnographic Divide (with Ernest Lockridge, published by Rowman and Littlefield) breaks new ground in ethnography and autoethnography. She gives keynotes, seminars, and workshops.