Anna Cohenmiller
Biographic Data
| ID | 260199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Cohenmiller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohenmiller |
| SIGNATURE | COHENMILLER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nazarbayev University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6871-6898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Leadership in Higher Education
The Crux of Internationalization of Higher Education
Teaching and Learning With Body Mapping Online Using Digital Tools
How can body mapping-traditionally practiced with physical materials in face-to-face settings-be effectively adapted for teaching and learning in online spaces using digital tools? This question drives our exploration of body mapping as an online method within arts-based research (ABR) and pedagogy. We emphasize directions for teaching about how to use and implement this approach with the aim of creating equitable, inclusive, and justice-centered…
A Meta-Framework for Conducting an Integrated Mixed Methods Autoethnography
This article is dedicated to the late Michael D. Fetters—a giant in the world of mixed methods research, an exceptional researcher and scholar, a professor of family medicine, a caring and beloved family physician, a lifelong learner, a colleague, a mentor, a steadfast advocate, a son, a sibling, a husband, a father, and, above all, a dear friend to everyone who knew him. Inspired by Professor Fetters’s innovation, we offer an expanded definition…
Healing Inquiry
This article integrates arts-based research and critical self-reflective questions through embodied questions of having lived in Ukraine and Kazakhstan at the time the war broke out in 2022: What was it like to have left Kiev with a family amid the bombing with family? How has the adjustment unfolded? How can life be meaningful today, if at all? Through a collaborative artistic interpretation of a co-produced work, we highlight the unsaid feeling…
Paths to Justice
With a focus on coalition building, inclusive research inquiry, and decolonial practices, this special issue delves into the complexities of forced colonization, emphasizing the importance of grassroots community involvement and knowledge sharing. Through a multidisciplinary lens, the articles within this issue explore various aspects of the conflict, offering innovative approaches to address the immediate and long-term impacts on affected popula…
The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the well-being of children with autism spectrum disorder
The COVID-19-related lockdown interrupted children's learning progress and discontinued social learning and regular activities that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) rely on socially and physically. Negative consequences for children with ASD were reported far and wide. To investigate this problem in Kazakhstan, we conducted a mixed-methods study that drew on data from an online survey with 97 parents and semi-structured interviews wit…
You Are Seen; You Matter
This international study examined how to support equity and inclusion for 18 mothers in academia (“motherscholars”). Applying Acker’s theory of gendered organizations as a framework for the study, we recruited participants from Facebook groups for women and mothers in higher education across disciplines and nine countries. To attend to the needs of participants, we employed principles of rigid flexibility, such as adjusting data collection to all…
He put his a** in your faces
In this collaborative autoethnographic piece, we present voices through critical incident technique replaying the same event at an academic conference, all seeking to understand how and why the disruption of voice occurs and what to do to counter it. We contextualize these experiences in the ideal of “sustainability of qualitative inquiry” through a feminist reflexive process, problematizing the potential for critical qualitative inquiry. We ques…
Retracted
Drawing from Paolo Freire and bell hooks, we reconceptualize the arts-based method (ABR) of body-mapping as a form of Action Research for Transformation (ART) in the higher education classroom. As such, we connect emancipatory education and culturally responsive teaching to propose an emancipatory pedagogy of body-mapping—a form of ART facilitating the inclusion of students’ culturally situated knowledge and experience within multicultural contex…
Gender Equity in Higher Education During Covid-19 in Central Asia
"Gender Equity in Higher Education During COVID-19 in Central Asia." European Education, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Gendered Aspects of Undergraduate Student Experience in the Time of Covid-19
This study examines student experience in the context of their transition to remote instruction during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic with a particular focus on the gendered aspects of the student experience. The researchers conducted a survey in July 2020 at one of the leading universities in Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev University. We sought to capture the immediate effects of the crisis on student experience and to see the impact of the C…
Conducting Focus Groups in Multicultural Educational Contexts
What happens when focus groups are conducted in challenging situations across languages, cultures, and educational settings? What adjustments might need to be made? How can adaptations be made while still maintaining the integrity of the research? Drawing on a multi-year study of gender and schooling in post-Soviet Kazakhstan, this article brings together researcher data from (1) informal discussion occurring after each focus group between the re…
The fearful khan and the delightful beauties’
This paper analyses how secondary school textbooks enact gender in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. As a ‘gender paradox’, with universal literacy and yet a higher representation of women at the tertiary level co-existing with multi-sectoral gaps at the expense of women, Kazakhstan offers an interesting context to empirically investigate the taken for granted relationship between education, gender equality and sustainable development. Poststructuralist di…
Creative Pedagogy and Praxis with Social Media
Research methods courses can provide essential opportunities for graduate students to develop themselves as researchers. This article offers insights into the application of creative pedagogy and praxis for a graduate-level qualitative research methods class. Students learned and applied the innovative research method—gender audit as process and method—to understand the gendered nature of University social media accounts. Applying principles of c…
Exposing gender in science
Worldwide mega-events have a significant political purpose, demonstrating various commitments to topics, such as energy conservation and gender equality. Gendered imagery at these major events can provide insight into an organizational or country perspective. The portrayal of people in imagery reinforces ideas and teaches audiences who are allowed to take-on various roles (e.g., doctors, teachers, or scientists). In other words, gender-balanced o…
Rigid Flexibility
This article highlights an experience of 'failing' within a qualitative research study. Specifically, the authors speak to the failure of recruiting participants in conducting synchronous video and telephone interviews. Drawing from literature in business and examples from research method texts to demonstrate the cross-disciplinary concerns and insights of failure within one's work, the authors discuss how failure can be reframed as opportunity t…
A Model for Developing Interdisciplinary Research Theoretical Frameworks
Embedded in interdisciplinary research, just as in disciplinary research, are statements of purpose, theoretical frameworks, research questions, reviews of literature, methodology, findings, recommendations, and more However, one of the least understood aspects of interdisciplinary research is the interdisciplinary research (IDR) theoretical framework. This article is intended to serve as a platform for dialogue within and across disciplines abou…
Breaking the “Fourth Wall” in Qualitative Research
This article reconstructs the typical researcher-participant focus - where the participants are doing for us - instead we followed the participants’ lead in the construction of research. Using a qualitative literacy event case study as an example, we describe how participants unexpectedly co-constructed knowledge through a participant-led digital data collection. In this theoretical article, we provide an explanation of the original study, which …
Creating a Participatory Arts-Based Online Focus Group
Using Facebook to create a participatory, arts-based online focus group, this study had two primary purposes: (1) to examine how mothers in academia present themselves as they transition from doctoral student mother (“DocMama”) to full time position as motherscholars and (2) to explore the use of a participatory, arts-based online focus group on Facebook to facilitate participant description of experiences and feelings. This study adds both to th…
A Quarter Century of Reforms in Post-Soviet Education
A simple search for recent news in academia leads to articles discussing increasing pressures on faculty. These range from the pressures to produce publications (Kuzhabekova, Hendel, & Chapman, 201
Stealth Language Teaching
In 2003, I worked at the Deacon Park Preschool1, non-profit private preschool in Atlanta, Georgia, to create a foreign language-learning environment that used second language (L2) as a medium for the curriculum instead of as a separate subject matter. With a background in Montessori education, through first hand experience as a student as well as professional experience as a Montessori teacher, I was interested in the possibility of creating a Mo…
The fearful khan and the delightful beauties’
This paper analyses how secondary school textbooks enact gender in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. As a ‘gender paradox’, with universal literacy and yet a higher representation of women at the tertiary level co-existing with multi-sectoral gaps at the expense of women, Kazakhstan offers an interesting context to empirically investigate the taken for granted relationship between education, gender equality and sustainable development. Poststructuralist di…
Rigid Flexibility
This article highlights an experience of 'failing' within a qualitative research study. Specifically, the authors speak to the failure of recruiting participants in conducting synchronous video and telephone interviews. Drawing from literature in business and examples from research method texts to demonstrate the cross-disciplinary concerns and insights of failure within one's work, the authors discuss how failure can be reframed as opportunity t…
Conducting Focus Groups in Multicultural Educational Contexts
What happens when focus groups are conducted in challenging situations across languages, cultures, and educational settings? What adjustments might need to be made? How can adaptations be made while still maintaining the integrity of the research? Drawing on a multi-year study of gender and schooling in post-Soviet Kazakhstan, this article brings together researcher data from (1) informal discussion occurring after each focus group between the re…
A Model for Developing Interdisciplinary Research Theoretical Frameworks
Embedded in interdisciplinary research, just as in disciplinary research, are statements of purpose, theoretical frameworks, research questions, reviews of literature, methodology, findings, recommendations, and more However, one of the least understood aspects of interdisciplinary research is the interdisciplinary research (IDR) theoretical framework. This article is intended to serve as a platform for dialogue within and across disciplines abou…
Exposing gender in science
Worldwide mega-events have a significant political purpose, demonstrating various commitments to topics, such as energy conservation and gender equality. Gendered imagery at these major events can provide insight into an organizational or country perspective. The portrayal of people in imagery reinforces ideas and teaches audiences who are allowed to take-on various roles (e.g., doctors, teachers, or scientists). In other words, gender-balanced o…
He put his a** in your faces
In this collaborative autoethnographic piece, we present voices through critical incident technique replaying the same event at an academic conference, all seeking to understand how and why the disruption of voice occurs and what to do to counter it. We contextualize these experiences in the ideal of “sustainability of qualitative inquiry” through a feminist reflexive process, problematizing the potential for critical qualitative inquiry. We ques…
Breaking the “Fourth Wall” in Qualitative Research
This article reconstructs the typical researcher-participant focus - where the participants are doing for us - instead we followed the participants’ lead in the construction of research. Using a qualitative literacy event case study as an example, we describe how participants unexpectedly co-constructed knowledge through a participant-led digital data collection. In this theoretical article, we provide an explanation of the original study, which …
Creating a Participatory Arts-Based Online Focus Group
Using Facebook to create a participatory, arts-based online focus group, this study had two primary purposes: (1) to examine how mothers in academia present themselves as they transition from doctoral student mother (“DocMama”) to full time position as motherscholars and (2) to explore the use of a participatory, arts-based online focus group on Facebook to facilitate participant description of experiences and feelings. This study adds both to th…
A Meta-Framework for Conducting an Integrated Mixed Methods Autoethnography
This article is dedicated to the late Michael D. Fetters—a giant in the world of mixed methods research, an exceptional researcher and scholar, a professor of family medicine, a caring and beloved family physician, a lifelong learner, a colleague, a mentor, a steadfast advocate, a son, a sibling, a husband, a father, and, above all, a dear friend to everyone who knew him. Inspired by Professor Fetters’s innovation, we offer an expanded definition…
Paths to Justice
With a focus on coalition building, inclusive research inquiry, and decolonial practices, this special issue delves into the complexities of forced colonization, emphasizing the importance of grassroots community involvement and knowledge sharing. Through a multidisciplinary lens, the articles within this issue explore various aspects of the conflict, offering innovative approaches to address the immediate and long-term impacts on affected popula…
You Are Seen; You Matter
This international study examined how to support equity and inclusion for 18 mothers in academia (“motherscholars”). Applying Acker’s theory of gendered organizations as a framework for the study, we recruited participants from Facebook groups for women and mothers in higher education across disciplines and nine countries. To attend to the needs of participants, we employed principles of rigid flexibility, such as adjusting data collection to all…
Stealth Language Teaching
In 2003, I worked at the Deacon Park Preschool1, non-profit private preschool in Atlanta, Georgia, to create a foreign language-learning environment that used second language (L2) as a medium for the curriculum instead of as a separate subject matter. With a background in Montessori education, through first hand experience as a student as well as professional experience as a Montessori teacher, I was interested in the possibility of creating a Mo…
Breaking the “Fourth Wall” in Qualitative Research
This article reconstructs the typical researcher-participant focus - where the participants are doing for us - instead we followed the participants’ lead in the construction of research. Using a qualitative literacy event case study as an example, we describe how participants unexpectedly co-constructed knowledge through a participant-led digital data collection. In this theoretical article, we provide an explanation of the original study, which …
Creating a Participatory Arts-Based Online Focus Group
Using Facebook to create a participatory, arts-based online focus group, this study had two primary purposes: (1) to examine how mothers in academia present themselves as they transition from doctoral student mother (“DocMama”) to full time position as motherscholars and (2) to explore the use of a participatory, arts-based online focus group on Facebook to facilitate participant description of experiences and feelings. This study adds both to th…
A Quarter Century of Reforms in Post-Soviet Education
A simple search for recent news in academia leads to articles discussing increasing pressures on faculty. These range from the pressures to produce publications (Kuzhabekova, Hendel, & Chapman, 201
A Model for Developing Interdisciplinary Research Theoretical Frameworks
Embedded in interdisciplinary research, just as in disciplinary research, are statements of purpose, theoretical frameworks, research questions, reviews of literature, methodology, findings, recommendations, and more However, one of the least understood aspects of interdisciplinary research is the interdisciplinary research (IDR) theoretical framework. This article is intended to serve as a platform for dialogue within and across disciplines abou…
Creative Pedagogy and Praxis with Social Media
Research methods courses can provide essential opportunities for graduate students to develop themselves as researchers. This article offers insights into the application of creative pedagogy and praxis for a graduate-level qualitative research methods class. Students learned and applied the innovative research method—gender audit as process and method—to understand the gendered nature of University social media accounts. Applying principles of c…
Exposing gender in science
Worldwide mega-events have a significant political purpose, demonstrating various commitments to topics, such as energy conservation and gender equality. Gendered imagery at these major events can provide insight into an organizational or country perspective. The portrayal of people in imagery reinforces ideas and teaches audiences who are allowed to take-on various roles (e.g., doctors, teachers, or scientists). In other words, gender-balanced o…
Rigid Flexibility
This article highlights an experience of 'failing' within a qualitative research study. Specifically, the authors speak to the failure of recruiting participants in conducting synchronous video and telephone interviews. Drawing from literature in business and examples from research method texts to demonstrate the cross-disciplinary concerns and insights of failure within one's work, the authors discuss how failure can be reframed as opportunity t…
The fearful khan and the delightful beauties’
This paper analyses how secondary school textbooks enact gender in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. As a ‘gender paradox’, with universal literacy and yet a higher representation of women at the tertiary level co-existing with multi-sectoral gaps at the expense of women, Kazakhstan offers an interesting context to empirically investigate the taken for granted relationship between education, gender equality and sustainable development. Poststructuralist di…
The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the well-being of children with autism spectrum disorder
The COVID-19-related lockdown interrupted children's learning progress and discontinued social learning and regular activities that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) rely on socially and physically. Negative consequences for children with ASD were reported far and wide. To investigate this problem in Kazakhstan, we conducted a mixed-methods study that drew on data from an online survey with 97 parents and semi-structured interviews wit…
You Are Seen; You Matter
This international study examined how to support equity and inclusion for 18 mothers in academia (“motherscholars”). Applying Acker’s theory of gendered organizations as a framework for the study, we recruited participants from Facebook groups for women and mothers in higher education across disciplines and nine countries. To attend to the needs of participants, we employed principles of rigid flexibility, such as adjusting data collection to all…
He put his a** in your faces
In this collaborative autoethnographic piece, we present voices through critical incident technique replaying the same event at an academic conference, all seeking to understand how and why the disruption of voice occurs and what to do to counter it. We contextualize these experiences in the ideal of “sustainability of qualitative inquiry” through a feminist reflexive process, problematizing the potential for critical qualitative inquiry. We ques…
Retracted
Drawing from Paolo Freire and bell hooks, we reconceptualize the arts-based method (ABR) of body-mapping as a form of Action Research for Transformation (ART) in the higher education classroom. As such, we connect emancipatory education and culturally responsive teaching to propose an emancipatory pedagogy of body-mapping—a form of ART facilitating the inclusion of students’ culturally situated knowledge and experience within multicultural contex…
Gender Equity in Higher Education During Covid-19 in Central Asia
"Gender Equity in Higher Education During COVID-19 in Central Asia." European Education, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Gendered Aspects of Undergraduate Student Experience in the Time of Covid-19
This study examines student experience in the context of their transition to remote instruction during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic with a particular focus on the gendered aspects of the student experience. The researchers conducted a survey in July 2020 at one of the leading universities in Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev University. We sought to capture the immediate effects of the crisis on student experience and to see the impact of the C…
Conducting Focus Groups in Multicultural Educational Contexts
What happens when focus groups are conducted in challenging situations across languages, cultures, and educational settings? What adjustments might need to be made? How can adaptations be made while still maintaining the integrity of the research? Drawing on a multi-year study of gender and schooling in post-Soviet Kazakhstan, this article brings together researcher data from (1) informal discussion occurring after each focus group between the re…
A Meta-Framework for Conducting an Integrated Mixed Methods Autoethnography
This article is dedicated to the late Michael D. Fetters—a giant in the world of mixed methods research, an exceptional researcher and scholar, a professor of family medicine, a caring and beloved family physician, a lifelong learner, a colleague, a mentor, a steadfast advocate, a son, a sibling, a husband, a father, and, above all, a dear friend to everyone who knew him. Inspired by Professor Fetters’s innovation, we offer an expanded definition…
Healing Inquiry
This article integrates arts-based research and critical self-reflective questions through embodied questions of having lived in Ukraine and Kazakhstan at the time the war broke out in 2022: What was it like to have left Kiev with a family amid the bombing with family? How has the adjustment unfolded? How can life be meaningful today, if at all? Through a collaborative artistic interpretation of a co-produced work, we highlight the unsaid feeling…
Paths to Justice
With a focus on coalition building, inclusive research inquiry, and decolonial practices, this special issue delves into the complexities of forced colonization, emphasizing the importance of grassroots community involvement and knowledge sharing. Through a multidisciplinary lens, the articles within this issue explore various aspects of the conflict, offering innovative approaches to address the immediate and long-term impacts on affected popula…
The Crux of Internationalization of Higher Education
Teaching and Learning With Body Mapping Online Using Digital Tools
How can body mapping-traditionally practiced with physical materials in face-to-face settings-be effectively adapted for teaching and learning in online spaces using digital tools? This question drives our exploration of body mapping as an online method within arts-based research (ABR) and pedagogy. We emphasize directions for teaching about how to use and implement this approach with the aim of creating equitable, inclusive, and justice-centered…
Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Leadership in Higher Education
Sociology (17 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Higher education (5 works)