Dr. Lisa A. Mazzei
Dr. Lisa A. Mazzei: Biography and CV
Associate Professor, Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies
Visiting Research Fellow, Education & Social Research Institute (ESRI), Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Office hours: 4-6pm on days that I teach and also by appointment
CV: complete version attached as PDF
Contact:
509 313 3630 mazzei@gonzaga.edu Office: Tilford 224
Gonzaga University 502 E. Boone Ave. MSC Box 2616 Spokane, WA 99258-2616
Academic Information:
1996 Ph.D. The Ohio State University, Educational Policy and Leadership Instructional Design and Technology (major)
Qualitative Studies in Education (minor)
Social and Cultural Foundations of Education (minor)
Dissertation: White Wash: The Absent Presence of Race Among White Educators
1984 M.A. The Ohio State University
Adult Education (major)
Training and Development (minor)
1983 B.A. Marshall University, magna cum laude
Marketing Education (major)
Select Publications
Books
Jackson, A.Y. & Mazzei, L.A.
(forthcoming 2011). Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Using
Epistemological Frameworks in the Production of Meaning. London:
Routledge.
Jackson, A.Y. & Mazzei, L.A.
(Eds.). (2009). Voice in qualitative inquiry: Challenging conventional,
interpretive, and critical conceptions in qualitative research. London:
Routledge.
Mazzei, L.A. (2007) Inhabited Silence in Qualitative Research: Putting poststructural theory to work. New York: Peter Lang.
Book Chapters
Mazzei, L.A. (2010). Silence speaks:
Whiteness revealed in the absence of voice. In Qualitative Research
Methods in Education (Four-Volume Set). Harry Torrance, (Ed.). London:
Sage Publications.
Articles in Refereed Journals
Mazzei, L.A. (in press). Desiring Silence: Gender, Race, and Pedagogy in Education. British Educational Research Journal.
Mazzei, L.A. (2010). Thinking Data with Deleuze. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 23 (5).
Jackson, A.Y. & Mazzei, L.A.
(2008). Experience and “I” in Autoethnography: A Deconstruction.
International Review of Qualitative Research, 1(3), 299-318. Invited
submission.
Mazzei, L.A. (2008). “Silence Speaks:
Whiteness Revealed In the Absence of Voice," Teaching and Teacher
Education, 24(5), 1125-1136.
Mazzei, L.A. (2004). "Silent Listenings: Deconstructive Practices in Discourse-
Based Research," Educational Researcher, 33 (2), 26-34.
Mazzei, L.A. (2003). “Inhabited Silence
in Qualitative Inquiry: In Pursuit of a Muffled Subtext,” Qualitative
Inquiry, 9 (3), 355-368.
Courses taught/teaching:
Leadership Theory
Leadership & Feminist Theory
Principles of Research
Scholarship & Dissertation Framework
Qualitative Research: Theory & Design
Advanced Qualitative Research: Analysis & Representation
Research interests:
Her research interests center on poststructural theories of
language and meaning and applying those theories to narrative and voice
in qualitative research, racial identity and awareness among white
educators and how silences are produced, and a feminist critique of
leadership.
Prose biography:
Dr. Mazzei joined the doctoral faculty as an Associate Professor in
September 2010. Prior to her appointment, she spent three years as a
Research Fellow in the Education and Social Research Institute (ESRI) at
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in the United Kingdom where
she maintains a post as a Visiting Research Fellow. Before moving to the
UK she was Associate Professor of Education at Ohio Dominican
University, a Catholic, Dominican university located in Columbus, Ohio.
She earned her Ph.D. in 1996 from The Ohio State University in
Educational Policy and Leadership with a major in Instructional Design
and Technology and minors in Qualitative Studies in Education and Social
and Cultural Foundations of Education. She has published two books,
Inhabited Silence in Qualitative Research, and Voice in Qualitative
Inquiry (edited with Alecia Jackson). She is currently co-authoring a
third book, Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research, (with Alecia
Jackson) to be published by Routledge in 2011. In addition, she serves
on the editorial board for the International Review of Qualitative
Research, is completing a three-year term as Program Co-Chair for the
Qualitative Research Special Interest Group for the American Educational
Research Association (AERA), and has published articles appearing in
numerous international journals.
Her greatest joy (besides her wonderful students) is her husband
Phillip, her two cats, exploring the beauty and bounty of the Inland
Northwest, and the support she has received from her colleagues. While
she does not have a “favorite” quote, she does particularly appreciate
the following offered by Amos Oz:
Whenever war is called peace, where oppression and persecution are
referred to as security, and assassination is called liberation, the
defilement of language precedes and prepares for the defilement of life
and dignity.