Laura L Ellingson
Biographic Data
| ID | 165265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura L Ellingson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura L |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellingson |
| SIGNATURE | ELLINGSON L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Clara University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9222-1449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Total Eclipse of the He/Art
Brave space-making as engaged communication scholarship
Engaging Creative and Arts-Based Research Approaches to Expand Equity, Advocacy, and Impact of Health and Disability Communication Research
Welcome to this special forum of Health Communication, which highlights the potential of arts-based research (ABR) at the intersection of disability studies and health communication. Scholars from diverse fields - including public health, advocacy, and health communication - are increasingly using ABR, defined as "research that uses the arts ... to explore, understand, represent and even challenge human action and experience."A World Health Organ…
A leg to stand on
Making Data in Qualitative Research
Making Data in Qualitative Research offers a generative alternative to outdated approaches to data collection. By reimagining methods through a model of data engagement, qualitative researchers consider what is at stake--ethically, methodologically, and theoretically--when we co-create data and imagine possibilities for doing data differently. Ellingson and Sotirin draw on critical, intersectional perspectives, including feminist, poststructurali…
Making Data in Qualitative Research
Making Data in Qualitative Research offers a generative alternative to outdated approaches to data collection. By reimagining methods through a model of data engagement, qualitative researchers consider what is at stake—ethically, methodologically, and theoretically—when we co-create data and imagine possibilities for doing data differently. Ellingson and Sotirin draw on critical, intersectional perspectives, including feminist, poststructuralist…
Data Engagement
The language of "data collection" is perpetuated by disciplinary practices, as well as a pedagogical motivation to make data collection practices teachable to new generations of qualitative researchers. Interpretive and critical qualitative researchers generally bracket meta-theoretical discussion of what we do when we "collect" data, side-stepping epistemological complexities when reporting results. At the same time, we remain keenly aware that …
Engaging Theories in Family Communication
Embodiment in Qualitative Research
Embodiment in Qualitative Research connects critical, interdisciplinary theorizing of embodiment with creative, practical strategies for engaging in embodied qualitative research. Ellingson equips qualitative researchers not only to resist the mind–body split in principle but to infuse their research with the vitality that comes from embracing knowledge production as deeply embedded in sensory experience. Grounded in poststructuralist, posthumani…
The “Other” Women in Family Life
Aunts persist as familiar characters in personal and popular family narratives. They may be beloved or reviled, intimately close or aloof and distant, central in family networks or rarely seen outliers, related by blood or legal ties or unrelated except by friendship. These rich variations, coupled with the gendered identity of the aunt role, make the aunt/niece/nephew relationship a rich and fascinating focus for scholarly study. In this chapter…
The truth must dazzle gradually
Crystallization is a framework for conducting qualitative and multimethod research that offers significant potential for enriching relationship research. Complementing rigorous social science research with (integrated or separate) artistic representations of data enables researchers to render complex, nuanced accounts that serve multiple stakeholder audiences
Interview as Embodied Communication
Engaging Crystallization in Qualitative Research
Rearticulating the Aunt
The aunt in contemporary Anglo-American culture is a deserving though oft-overlooked cultural identity for critical feminist analysis. This article examines selected performances of aunting in contemporary U.S. popular culture to illustrate how the cultural work of aunting articulates both dominant and transgressive constructions of family, care, kinship, and feminine agency. The quiet transgressions of popular aunt figures offer potent sites for…
Embodied Knowledge
After more than a decade of postpositivist health care research and an increase in narrative writing practices, social scientific, qualitative health research remains largely disembodied. The erasure of researchers' bodies from conventional accounts of research obscures the complexities of knowledge production and yields deceptively tidy accounts of research. Qualitative health research could benefit significantly from embodied writing that explo…
Exploring young adults' perspectives on communication with aunts
Women are typically studied as daughters, sisters, mothers, or grandmothers. However, many, if not most, women are also aunts. In this study, we offer a preliminary exploration of the meaning of aunts as familial figures. We collected 70 nieces' and nephews' written accounts of their aunts. Thematic analysis of these accounts revealed nine themes, which were divided into two categories. The first category represented the role of the aunt as a tea…
The roles of companions in geriatric patient–interdisciplinary oncology team interactions
Style, Substance, and Standpoint
(2000). Style, Substance, and Standpoint: A Feminist Critique of Bernie Siegel’s Rhetoric of Self-Healing. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 23, Feminist Standpoint Theory and Research in Communication, pp. 63-90
Then You Know How I Feel
This article extends the discussion of the subjective and positioned nature of the researcher in ethnography by examining how a cancer survivor conducting fieldwork in an oncology clinic shapes and is shaped by the experience. Narratives of lived experience interrupt the academic essay to demonstrate my dynamic understanding of the clinic and the connections between my experiences and those of the patients and staff. I explore how my experiences …
Embodied Knowledge
After more than a decade of postpositivist health care research and an increase in narrative writing practices, social scientific, qualitative health research remains largely disembodied. The erasure of researchers' bodies from conventional accounts of research obscures the complexities of knowledge production and yields deceptively tidy accounts of research. Qualitative health research could benefit significantly from embodied writing that explo…
Then You Know How I Feel
This article extends the discussion of the subjective and positioned nature of the researcher in ethnography by examining how a cancer survivor conducting fieldwork in an oncology clinic shapes and is shaped by the experience. Narratives of lived experience interrupt the academic essay to demonstrate my dynamic understanding of the clinic and the connections between my experiences and those of the patients and staff. I explore how my experiences …
Exploring young adults' perspectives on communication with aunts
Women are typically studied as daughters, sisters, mothers, or grandmothers. However, many, if not most, women are also aunts. In this study, we offer a preliminary exploration of the meaning of aunts as familial figures. We collected 70 nieces' and nephews' written accounts of their aunts. Thematic analysis of these accounts revealed nine themes, which were divided into two categories. The first category represented the role of the aunt as a tea…
Data Engagement
The language of "data collection" is perpetuated by disciplinary practices, as well as a pedagogical motivation to make data collection practices teachable to new generations of qualitative researchers. Interpretive and critical qualitative researchers generally bracket meta-theoretical discussion of what we do when we "collect" data, side-stepping epistemological complexities when reporting results. At the same time, we remain keenly aware that …
The truth must dazzle gradually
Crystallization is a framework for conducting qualitative and multimethod research that offers significant potential for enriching relationship research. Complementing rigorous social science research with (integrated or separate) artistic representations of data enables researchers to render complex, nuanced accounts that serve multiple stakeholder audiences
The roles of companions in geriatric patient–interdisciplinary oncology team interactions
Rearticulating the Aunt
The aunt in contemporary Anglo-American culture is a deserving though oft-overlooked cultural identity for critical feminist analysis. This article examines selected performances of aunting in contemporary U.S. popular culture to illustrate how the cultural work of aunting articulates both dominant and transgressive constructions of family, care, kinship, and feminine agency. The quiet transgressions of popular aunt figures offer potent sites for…
Style, Substance, and Standpoint
(2000). Style, Substance, and Standpoint: A Feminist Critique of Bernie Siegel’s Rhetoric of Self-Healing. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 23, Feminist Standpoint Theory and Research in Communication, pp. 63-90
Then You Know How I Feel
This article extends the discussion of the subjective and positioned nature of the researcher in ethnography by examining how a cancer survivor conducting fieldwork in an oncology clinic shapes and is shaped by the experience. Narratives of lived experience interrupt the academic essay to demonstrate my dynamic understanding of the clinic and the connections between my experiences and those of the patients and staff. I explore how my experiences …
Style, Substance, and Standpoint
(2000). Style, Substance, and Standpoint: A Feminist Critique of Bernie Siegel’s Rhetoric of Self-Healing. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 23, Feminist Standpoint Theory and Research in Communication, pp. 63-90
The roles of companions in geriatric patient–interdisciplinary oncology team interactions
Embodied Knowledge
After more than a decade of postpositivist health care research and an increase in narrative writing practices, social scientific, qualitative health research remains largely disembodied. The erasure of researchers' bodies from conventional accounts of research obscures the complexities of knowledge production and yields deceptively tidy accounts of research. Qualitative health research could benefit significantly from embodied writing that explo…
Exploring young adults' perspectives on communication with aunts
Women are typically studied as daughters, sisters, mothers, or grandmothers. However, many, if not most, women are also aunts. In this study, we offer a preliminary exploration of the meaning of aunts as familial figures. We collected 70 nieces' and nephews' written accounts of their aunts. Thematic analysis of these accounts revealed nine themes, which were divided into two categories. The first category represented the role of the aunt as a tea…
Rearticulating the Aunt
The aunt in contemporary Anglo-American culture is a deserving though oft-overlooked cultural identity for critical feminist analysis. This article examines selected performances of aunting in contemporary U.S. popular culture to illustrate how the cultural work of aunting articulates both dominant and transgressive constructions of family, care, kinship, and feminine agency. The quiet transgressions of popular aunt figures offer potent sites for…
Engaging Crystallization in Qualitative Research
Interview as Embodied Communication
The “Other” Women in Family Life
Aunts persist as familiar characters in personal and popular family narratives. They may be beloved or reviled, intimately close or aloof and distant, central in family networks or rarely seen outliers, related by blood or legal ties or unrelated except by friendship. These rich variations, coupled with the gendered identity of the aunt role, make the aunt/niece/nephew relationship a rich and fascinating focus for scholarly study. In this chapter…
The truth must dazzle gradually
Crystallization is a framework for conducting qualitative and multimethod research that offers significant potential for enriching relationship research. Complementing rigorous social science research with (integrated or separate) artistic representations of data enables researchers to render complex, nuanced accounts that serve multiple stakeholder audiences
Engaging Theories in Family Communication
Embodiment in Qualitative Research
Embodiment in Qualitative Research connects critical, interdisciplinary theorizing of embodiment with creative, practical strategies for engaging in embodied qualitative research. Ellingson equips qualitative researchers not only to resist the mind–body split in principle but to infuse their research with the vitality that comes from embracing knowledge production as deeply embedded in sensory experience. Grounded in poststructuralist, posthumani…
Making Data in Qualitative Research
Making Data in Qualitative Research offers a generative alternative to outdated approaches to data collection. By reimagining methods through a model of data engagement, qualitative researchers consider what is at stake--ethically, methodologically, and theoretically--when we co-create data and imagine possibilities for doing data differently. Ellingson and Sotirin draw on critical, intersectional perspectives, including feminist, poststructurali…
Making Data in Qualitative Research
Making Data in Qualitative Research offers a generative alternative to outdated approaches to data collection. By reimagining methods through a model of data engagement, qualitative researchers consider what is at stake—ethically, methodologically, and theoretically—when we co-create data and imagine possibilities for doing data differently. Ellingson and Sotirin draw on critical, intersectional perspectives, including feminist, poststructuralist…
Data Engagement
The language of "data collection" is perpetuated by disciplinary practices, as well as a pedagogical motivation to make data collection practices teachable to new generations of qualitative researchers. Interpretive and critical qualitative researchers generally bracket meta-theoretical discussion of what we do when we "collect" data, side-stepping epistemological complexities when reporting results. At the same time, we remain keenly aware that …
A leg to stand on
Engaging Creative and Arts-Based Research Approaches to Expand Equity, Advocacy, and Impact of Health and Disability Communication Research
Welcome to this special forum of Health Communication, which highlights the potential of arts-based research (ABR) at the intersection of disability studies and health communication. Scholars from diverse fields - including public health, advocacy, and health communication - are increasingly using ABR, defined as "research that uses the arts ... to explore, understand, represent and even challenge human action and experience."A World Health Organ…
Total Eclipse of the He/Art
Brave space-making as engaged communication scholarship
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (7 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works)