Sharlene Janice Nagy Hesse-Biber is Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She has published widely in the field of mixed-methods research and on the impact of sociocultural factors on women's body image. Author of Mixed-Methods Research: Merging Theory with Practice (Guilford Publications, 2010) and associate editor of the Journal of Mixed-Methods Research, she is also on the editorial boards of Qualitative Health Research and Sociological Methodology. She is a co-developer of the software program HyperRESEARCH, a computer-assisted program for analyzing qualitative and mixed-methods data, and the transcription tool HyperTRANSCRIBE (www.researchware.com).
R. Burke Johnson is Professor in the Department of Professional Studies at the University of South Alabama and is an interdisciplinarian with four graduate degrees, specializing in research methodology and philosophy of social science. He is coauthor or coeditor of six books, including two research methods textbooks: Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches (with Larry Christensen, 2014) and Research Methods, Design, and Analysis (with Larry Christensen and Lisa Turner, 2014).