Sari Knopp Biklen
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and Department Chair
Cultural Foundations of Education
E-mail: skbiklen@syr.edu
Office:
Rm. 356 Huntington Hall
Phone: 443-9075
Education:
Ed.D, University of Massachusetts, 1973
Sari Knopp Biklen, Laura and Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and professor of cultural foundations of education, is a specialist in popular culture, qualitative research methods, and youth culture. She directs the Institute on Popular Culture and Education at Syracuse University. As a University Scholar for the American Association of University Women, Biklen researched the culture of university life for college women investigating how college women talk about race, and how their consumer practices impact their educational careers. In 1996 she won Syracuse University's Outstanding Teacher Award. In 1999 she was Rio Tinto-LaTrobe University Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Melbourne, Australia. Her books include The Practical Guide to the Qualitative Dissertation (with Ronnie Casella, Teachers College Press, forthcoming, 2007), Qualitative Research for Education (with Robert Bogdan; Allyn & Bacon, fifth edition, 2006), School Work: Gender and the Cultural Construction of Teaching (Teachers College Press, 1995), Gender and Education (with Diane Pollard, National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, 1993), Women as Radicals and Conservators (with Joyce Antler) and Women and Educational Leadership (with Marilyn Brannigan). Her articles have appeared in numerous journals including Teachers College Record, Qualitative Inquiry, Phi Delta Kappan, and History of Education. She serves on the editorial board of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.