Interdisciplinary Symposium on Qualitative Methodologies 2020: Theory and Philosophy in Qualitative Research

Susan Ophelia Cannon is an assistant professor of education at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research traverses the fields of teacher education, policy, mathematics and statistics education, and qualitative research in order to question what social science research can do for and with students and teachers in schools. She is concerned with the ethical implications of knowledge making practices. Her dissertation work was a diffractive analysis across interpretivist, poststructural, and posthumanist theories. The purpose of the analysis was to consider how different ways of doing science in the academy matter for ethical engagement in research. In addition, she is interested in reading and writing practices in the academy. Her most recent project considers how counting practices in the academy position and subjectify researchers. Her work has been published in Qualitative Inquiry, International Review of Qualitative Research, Education Policy Analysis Archives, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, and Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. She serves on the AERA Qualitative Research Special Interest Group’s Mentoring Committee.