Popularizing Scholarly Research

Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is an independent sociologist and bestselling author. She has published over thirty-five books, earning commercial and critical success in both nonfiction and fiction, and her work has been translated into many languages. Among her book publications, she is the author of Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice, now in its third edition, and Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Approaches. She has received career awards from the New England Sociological Association, the American Creativity Association, the American Educational Research Association, the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, and the National Art Education Association. In 2018, she was honored by the National Women's Hall of Fame and SUNY-New Paltz established the "Patricia Leavy Award for Art and Social Justice." Her website is www.patricialeavy.com.

• Preface 1. Introduction to The Academic Landscape, Representation, and Professional Identity Patricia Leavy2. The 21st Century Academic Landscape: From a Disciplinary to a Transdisciplinary Model Patricia Leavy3. Public Scholarship, Public Intellectuals, and the Role of Higher Education in a Time of Crisis Henry Armand Giroux4. Audience and Voice (and Sometimes Reflexivity) Yvonna S. Lincoln, Vassa Grichko, and Glenn Allen Phillips5. Creative Nonfiction in Qualitative Inquiry Jessica Smartt Gullion and Jessica Spears Williams6. Writing Collaboratively JeffriAnne Wilder7. Visualizing Scholarship: Teaching, Research, and Representation in an Age of Images J. Wheeldon8. Academics Writing for Broader Public Audience Phillip Vannini and Sarah Abbott9. Academic Blogs Jimmie Manning10. Generating Publicity and Engaging with the Media to Promote Academic Research Mark David Ryan11. Funding: Writing Grant Proposals Ellen Gorsevski, Kate Magsamen-Conrad, and Lisa Hanasono12. Public Policy and a Community-Based Research Approach13. Beyond Popular Scholarship: SExT Youth Engaging in the World's Renewal Shira Taylor, Isfandyar Virani, Michelle Nyamekye, Hamza Shahid, Lauren Chang and Lynn Fels14. Growing the Revolutionary Intellectual, Creating the Counterpublic Sphere Peter McLaren and Lilia D. Monzó