Personal profile
About
Laura Ellingson's research focuses on gender in extended families, feminist and qualitative methodologies, and interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork in health care organizations.She also publishes extensively in the field of qualitative methodology, on topics such as ethnography, embodiment, and envisioning a continuum approach to social science methodologies. Currently, Laura is collaborating with Photographer and Visual Artist Renee Billingslea, SCU Art & Art History Dept., and SCU alumna Kristian Borofka, on a project exploring communication in the lives of long-term cancer survivors, entitled "Voicing Survivorship." A website highlighting the "photovoice" phase of the project shares participants' photos, their thoughts and stories, and information on survivorship. Laura also is the author of Communicating in the Clinic: Negotiating Frontstage and Backstage Teamwork (2005, Hampton) and Engaging Crystallization in Qualitative Research (2009, Sage), and co-author with Patty Sotirin ofAunting: Cultural Practices that Sustain Family and Community Life (2010, Baylor University Press) and Where the Aunts Are: Family, Feminism, and Kinship in Popular Culture (2013, Baylor University Press).
Contact Information
Departments of Communication and Women’s & Gender Studies
Santa Clara University
212 Vari Hall
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
(408) 551-7056
Related documents
- Curriculum Vitae
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Education/Academic qualification
Ph.D. in Communication, University of South Florida
… → 2001
M.A. in Communication, Northern Illinois University
… → 1997
MA in Writing (Nonfiction emphasis), University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
… → 1992
B. A. in English (Religion minor), University of Vermont
… → 1991
Research Interests
- qualitative and feminist methodologies
- embodiment
- gender within extended/chosen family networks
- communication in healthcare organizations
Disciplines
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Communication
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Communication, Collaboration, and Teamwork among Health Care Professionals
Ellingson, L. L., Mar 5 2025Research output: Other contribution
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Making Data in Qualitative Research: Engagements, Ethics, and Entanglements
Ellingson, L. L. & Sotirin, P., Mar 18 2020Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Authoring: Telling a research story
Ellingson, L. L., Jan 1 2017, Communication.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Realistically ever after: Disrupting dominant cancer narratives within cancer advocacy organizations
Ellingson, L. L., Mar 28 2017, In: Management Communication Quarterly.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article