Carolyn Ellis
Professor and Chair
Qualitative Methods, Emotions, Autoethnography, Holocaust Studies
Office: CIS 3054
Phone: 813/974-3626
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Dr. Ellis began teaching at USF in 1981 in the Sociology Department and joined the Communication Department in 1996. Much of her research has been situated in interpretive and artistic representations of qualitative research and focuses on writing and revisioning autoethnographic stories as a way to understand and interpret culture and live a meaningful life. Her current research focuses on interactive interviews and collaborative witnessing with Holocaust survivors
Curriculum Vitae
(November 2012)
Undergraduate Course Offerings
- Communicating Emotions
- Communicating Illness, Loss, and Grief
- Race and Emotions
- Writing Lives
- Personal Storytelling
Graduate Course Offerings
- Advanced Qualitative Research Methods
- Autoethnography
- Communicating Emotions
- Communicating Grief and Loss
- Qualitative Methods
Representative Publications
“Collaborative Witnessing of Survival during the Holocaust: An Exemplar of Relational Autoethnography.” Qualitative Inquiry, 19 (4)(with J. Rawicki), 2013
“Crossing the Rabbit Hole: Autoethnographic Life Review,” Qualitative Inquiry, 19(1), 35-45, 2013
“The Procrastinating Autoethnographer: Reflections of Self on the Blank Screen.” The International Review of Qualitative Research, 5(3), 331-337, 2012.
“Jumping On and Off the Run Away Train of Success: Stress and Committed Intensity in an Academic Life.” Symbolic Interaction, 34(2), 158-172, 2011.
“Revisioning an Ethnographic Life: Integrating a Communicative Heart with a Sociological Eye.” Studies in Symbolic Interaction, edited by Norman Denzin, Sage. ("Blue Ribbon" series on self-portraits of famous interactionists, invited and edited by Lonnie Athens), volume 38, pp. 121-149, 2012.
“Telling Secrets, Revealing Lives: Relational Ethics in Research with Intimate Others,” Qualitative Inquiry, 13(1) February, 3-29, 2007.
“Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject,” In The Handbook of Qualitative Research (2nd edition), edited by Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, Sage, pp. 733-768 (with Arthur Bochner, 2000).
Books
Handbook of Autoethnography. Walnut Creek, Calif: Left Coast (with S. Holman Jones and T. Adams), 2013.
Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2009. Music Autoethnographies: Making Autoethnography Sing/Making Music Personal.Bowen Hills: QLD Australian Academic Press (ed. with Brydie-Leigh Bartleet), 2009.
The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004.
Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.
Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press (ed. with Arthur Bochner), 1996.
Ethnographically Speaking: Autoethnography, Literature, and Aesthetics. Walnut Creek: CA: AltaMira Press (ed. with Arthur Bochner), 2002.
Investigating Subjectivity: Research on Lived Experience. Newbury Park: Sage (edited with M. Flaherty), 1992.
Fisher Folk: Two Communities on Chesapeake Bay. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986.
Social Perspectives on Emotion, Vol. III, Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press. (ed. with Michael Flaherty), 1995.
Honors and Awards
- Lifetime Achievement Award in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, 2012
- Theodore and Venette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award, University of South Florida, 2011.
- “Death was not the Problem: Narrating and Analyzing Stories of Survival in the Warsaw Ghetto,” George Herbert Mead Lecture Series Featured Speaker at National Communication Association, co-sponsored with Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2012
- The International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, Best Book in Qualitative Inquiry Award (Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work), May 2010.
- Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Charles Horton Cooley Award for best book (Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work), August 2009
- Relational Witnessing: Memories of Holocaust Survivors at the End of Life, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend Award, 2009-2010.
- USF President's Women's Leadership Award, USF Women's Status Committee, 2007.
- Distinguished book award (The Ethnographic I), Ethnography Division, NCA, 2005
- Faculty Recognition Award, USF Graduate Communication Association, 2003-2004
- USF President's Faculty Excellence Award, 2003
- Feminist Mentor Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2002
- Distinguished Publication Award ("With Mother/With Cild"), Ethnography Division, NCA, 2002
- HUB Award, Department of Communication, USF, 1999
- University Teaching Award, USF, 1999
- Teaching Incentive Program Award, USF, 1998
- Faculty Recognition Award, USF Graduate Communication Association, 1997-1998
- University Teaching Award, USF, 1990
- University Teaching Award, USF, 1987
- Robert E. Park Award for Outstanding Research Monograph in Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, 1986-1987
- President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, SUNY, Stony Brook, 1979
Education
Ph.D. SUNY at Stony Brook, 1981 (Sociology)
M.A. SUNY at Stony Brook, 1977 (Sociology)
B.A. College of William and Mary, 1973 (Sociology)
Current Courses
Graduate Students
Jim Bowman , Chris Patti, Blake Paxton, Tasha Rennels