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Lorien S. Jordan, Ph.D.

Lorien S. Jordan, Ph.D. (University of Georgia), is an Assistant Professor of Educational Measurement and Research (Qualitative Inquiry) at the 草莓视频, where she also directs the Certificate in Qualitative Research.

Her work examines how power and culture shape what counts as knowledge, drawing on critical and anticolonial theories and employing creative, digital and arts-based methods to question and reimagine these processes. Across three interconnected strands鈥攃ritical and culturally responsive methodologies, qualitative inquiry in the algorithmic, and postdigital era and the pedagogy and practice of becoming a methodologist鈥攕he explores how qualitative inquirers can remain ethical, creative and just amid the shifting conditions of contemporary life.

Her current scholarship engages the metaethics of artificial intelligence, reimagining qualitative ethics through relational and epistemic perspectives that recognize collaborations with nonhuman actors. She approaches research as a living, relational practice鈥攐ne that calls for reflexivity, creativity and care within complex social, cultural and technological worlds.

Jordan鈥檚 publications appear in Qualitative Research, Qualitative Inquiry, the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, the International Review of Qualitative Research and Cultural Studies 鈫� Critical Methodologies. She serves as an Associate Editor for Qualitative Health Research and on the editorial boards of The Qualitative Report and the International Journal of Qualitative Methods.

Selected Publications

  • Jordan, L. S., *Sauberer, P. G., Wolgemuth, J. R. (2025). The sound of science: Exploring generative AI podcasts for qualitative health research translation. Qualitative Health Research.
  • Jordan, L.S., & Wolgemuth, J. R. (2025). 鈥淵ou can trust me鈥onest鈥�: Claiming trustworthiness in statements of subjectivity. Qualitative Inquiry.
  • Jordan, L.S. & Hall, J. N. (2025). Culturally responsive methodologies: Addressing the special issues in qualitative health research. Qualitative Health Research, 35(4-5), 395 鈥� 402.
  • Jordan, L. S. (2024). Problematizing digital platform use in qualitative inquiry: A postdigital, anti/colonial critique. Qualitative Research. Advanced online:
  • *Treco, K., & Jordan, L. S. (2024). Decentering and rezoning: Podcasts as a DisCrit method for doing disability research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23,1-12.
  • Wolgemuth, J. R., & Jordan, L. S. (2024). Critical qualitative inquiry: An optimistic counter in/to a conservative backslide. International Review of Qualitative Research, 17(2), 185-197. .
  • Jordan, L.S. & Hall, J.N. (2023). Framing anticolonialism in evaluation: Bridging decolonizing methodologies and culturally responsive evaluation. Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 19(44), 102鈥�116.
  • Jordan, L.S. (2023). Integrating qualitative inquiry and critical whiteness in psychology research methods courses. Teaching of Psychology, 50(2), 112-118.  
  • Wolgemuth, J. & Jordan, L. S. (2023). 鈥淲ill you be our qualitative methodologist?鈥� Reflections on grant work responsibilities. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Advanced online.  

Contact Info

Lorien Jordan

Assistant Professor of Measurement and Research Educational and Psychological Studies
lsjordan@usf.edu