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Pengfei Zhao

Title: 
Dr.
Academic title(s): 

Assistant Professor

Pengfei Zhao
Contact Information
Email address: 
peng-fei.zhao [at] mcgill.ca
Degree(s): 
  • Ph.D. in Inquiry Methodology, Indiana University Bloomington, U.S.A.
  • M.A. Literary Theory, Beijing Normal University, China
  • B.A. Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University, China
Link(s): 
Google Scholar
Areas of expertise: 
  • Ethnographic and Cultural Studies
  • Research and Methods
  • Qualitative Research Methodologies
  • Feminist Methodology
  • Multilingualism and Methodology
  • Gender and Social Issues
  • Comparative Education

 

Group: 
Tenure-Track Professors
Selected publications: 
  • Zhao, P., K. Ross, P. Li & B. K. Dennis* (2021). Making Sense of Social Research Methodology: A Student- and Practitioner-Centered Approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press. (with equal co-authorship)
  • Zhao, P., Lester, J. A & Paulus, T. (online first). Digital Worlds and the Folding Reality: Implications for Qualitative Inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004231163157.    
  • ‡Zhao, P. & P. Li (online first). The Affordances of Videoconferencing Technology for Doing Interviews with Children Online: Methodological Explorations Based on a Critical Ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004231165464.
  • Zhao, P. & Silberstein, S.* (2022). Not Waves But Ripples: Re-Worlding & Counter-Worlding of Intergenerational Feminism. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 35(10), 1052-1066. DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2022.2061736  
  • Zhao, P. (2020). Working the Hyphens in Contemporary China: Reconsidering Researcher-Participant Relationship in an Authoritarian State. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2020.1828642.  
  • Zhao, P., P. Li, K. Ross & B. K. Dennis (2016). Methodological Tool or Methodology? Beyond Instrumentality and Efficiency with Qualitative Data Analysis Software. Forum: Qualitative Social Research. Access from: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1602160

    (* indicates equal co-authorship)

 

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • 2021, National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, U.S.A.
  • 2019, Illinois Qualitative Distinguished Dissertation Award (Traditional Category), International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, U.S.A.
  • 2017, IIQM PhD Dissertation Award, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, Canada

 

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