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Jennifer Wolgemuth, Ph.D.
Jennifer Wolgemuth, Ph.D., is a qualitative methodologist and interdisciplinary research scholar whose work examines how inquiry both reveals and shapes the lives and communities it engages.
Wolgemuth received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies with a specialization in Research Methods from Colorado State University in 2007, followed by a three-year post-doc at Charles Darwin University in Australia. In 2012, she joined USF’s Measurement and Research program in a tenure-track position, where she directs the Certificate in Qualitative Research and coordinates the Interdisciplinary Education PhD program.
Her scholarship focuses on the ethics and validity of social science research. Drawing on critical, poststructural, and new materialist theories, she explores inquiry as an agential process that simultaneously investigates and creates lives and communities for which the researcher is responsible. Her work has been published in journals such as Educational Researcher, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, Qualitative Inquiry, Qualitative Research and Qualitative Health Research. She co-edited, with Kelly Guyotte, Philosophical Mentoring in Qualitative Research: Collaborating and Inquiring Together, and the upcoming book, Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis: Creative Engagements with Qualitative Data. She is also Chair of the American Educational Research Association’s Qualitative Research SIG (QR SIG).
Outside of academia, Wolgemuth enjoys backpacking, camping and hiking in diverse biomes—including swamps.
Recent Research Projects
- Wolgemuth, JR (2023). On anti-writing (qualitatively). In Carlson, D, Romero, A, & Vasquez, AM (Eds.), Writing and the articulation of post-qualitative research. Routledge.
- Koro, M, Wolgemuth, JR, & Trinh, E* (2023). Methodological footprints in qualitative research. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004231183944
- Wolgemuth, JR, Jordan, L (2023). Will you be our qualitative methodologist?: Reflections on grant work responsibilities. International Journal of Qualitative Method,2. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231152452
- Koro, M, & Wolgemuth, JR (2023). Methodologies for the apocalypse: Thinking the unthinkable. Qualitative Inquiry, 29(6), 651-658. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004221142805
- Wolgemuth, JR, Marn, T, Barko, T, & Weaver-Hightower, M (2022). Radical uncertainty is not enough: (In)justices of post-qualitative research. International Review of Qualitative Research, 14(4), 575-593. https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447211012658
- Guyotte, K., & Wolgemuth, JR (Eds.) (2022). Philosophical mentoring in qualitative research: Collaborating and inquiring together. Routledge.
