Prof.dr. D. Yanow

Present: Variable, contact through e-mail

Specialisation

• As an organizational and policy ethnographer, I focus on interpretive approaches to policy and organizational analysis, including both theories and methods, guided by an overall interest in the communication of meaning in those settings
• When not researching, writing or teaching, I can be found reading mysteries, practicing the violin/fiddle and hand percussion, singing ‘early music,’ folk dancing, or exercising

Ma thesis supervision

No specific thesis subjects available

Research interests

• Ways of knowing: Interpretive philosophies and research methodologies and methods (symbolism in language, objects, acts; reflexivity; organizational and political ethnography; metaphor, category, and space analyses; science studies and political science; presenting “science” through museums; political, policy, and organizational ethnography)
• The politics of identity (race-ethnic category-making and the state; state categories and personal identity; cross-national comparative analysis of race-ethnic category-making in public policy, administration, and work and daily life)
• Interpretive approaches to policy analysis (the communication of public policy meanings; policy implementation as text; category-making in public policies)
• Issues in research regulatory policies (US Institutional Review Boards; cross-national policy analysis)
• Meanings and built space (organizational museums; space and implementation)
• Organizational practices (collective organizational learning; organizational culture, identity, image; reflective practice; organizational metaphors)

Teaching interests

• Ethnographic and other interpretive research methods (metaphor analysis, category analysis, built space analysis, discourse analysis)
• Public policy studies (interpretive-deliberative policy analysis; implementation; social policies – immigration, race/ethnicity-related policies; the question of evidence in policies and practices)
• Organizational studies (theory; culture; learning; history of ideas; diagnosis)
• Philosophy of social science (post-positivism, pragmatism, feminist theories)

Teaching

• Methods and Meaning (Fieldwork Preparation, part I, Fall 2007, VU), syllabus
• Interpretive Policy Analysis (CSU 2004-05)
• Social Realities and Human Organizations (CSU 2004-2005)
• Interpretive Research Methods (ECPR Summer School 2006)
• Interpretive Research Methods (CSU 2004-05)
• Political and Policy Ethnography (ECPR Summer School 2007)

Books

1. Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn (ME Sharpe, 2006)

Yanow, Interpretation and Method

2. Constructing 'Race' and 'Ethnicity' in America: Category-making in Public Policy and Aministration (ME Sharpe, 2003)

Herbert Simon Award, American Political Science Association, Public Administration Section (2007)
First 'Best Book' prize, American Society for Public Administration, Section on Public Administration Research (2004)

Constructing 'Race' And 'Ethnicity' flyer

3. Knowing in Organizations (ME Sharpe, 2003)

Knowing in Organizations: A Practice-Based Approach

4. Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis

A volume in the 'blue book' (qualitative methods) series (Sage, 2000)
 
Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis

5. How Does a Policy Mean? Interpreting Policy and Organizational Actions (Georgetown University Press, 1996)

'How Does A Policy Mean' flyer

Selected Articles and Papers

1. “Interpretation in policy analysis: On methods and practice” (2007); Critical Policy Analysis 1: 109-121

Yanow Critical Policy Analysis Birmingham

2. “Methodology by metaphor: Painting and the study of organizational identity” (2008; with Mary Jo Hatch); Organization Studies 29: 23-44

Methodology by Metaphor 2008

3. “Reading as method” (2007); Prepared for Edward Schatz, ed., Political ethnography: What immersion brings to the study of power

Yanow Reading as Method

4. “Institutional review boards and field research" (with Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, 2007); American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (August 30-September 2)

Institutional Review Boards and Field Research

5. “In the house of ‘science,’ there are many rooms: Perestroika and the ‘science studies’ turn” (2005). In: Perestroika! The raucous rebellion in political science, Kristen Renwick Monroe, ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press

Perestroika volume

6. “Jewish administrative practice and a philosophy of public administration” (2005); Administrative Theory & Praxis 27, 134-158

ATP Jewish administrative practice and a philosophy of public administration

7. "Translating local knowledge at organizational peripheries" (2004); British Journal of Management 15, Special Issue, S15-S25 (March)

Translating local knowledge

8. “Organizational studies as an interpretive science” (2003, with Mary Jo Hatch); In: Christian Knudsen and Haridimos Tsoukas, eds., The Oxford handbook of organization theory: Meta-theoretical perspectives (Oxford University Press)

Organizational Theory as an interpretive science 2008

9. "'Reading' 'methods' 'texts': How research methods texts construct political science" (2002, with Peregrine Schwartz-Shea); Political Research Quarterly 55, 457-486

SSY.Reading Methods.texts

10. "Space stories; Or, Studying museum buildings as organizational spaces, while reflecting on interpretive methods and their narration" (1998); Journal of Management Inquiry 7, 215-239

52 JMI.Space stories

11. "Passionate humility in interpretive policy and administrative analysis" (1997); Administrative Theory and Praxis 19, 171-177

43 Passionate Humility ATP

12. "American ethnogenesis and public administration" (1996); Administration & Society 27, 483-509

American ethnogenesis AS 1996

13. "Culture and Organizational Learning” (1993, with Scott Cook); Journal of Management Inquiry 2, 373-390

Awarded first "Breaking the Frame" award (1994, Journal of Management Inquiry), for best article in its first two years of publication 

OCOL Culture and Org.lg

14. "Supermarkets and culture clash: The epistemological role of metaphors in administrative practice" (1992); American Review of Public Administration 22, 89-109

Supermarkets.Metaphor

Selected essays

1. "Interpretive empirical political science: What makes this not a subfield of qualitative methods"; Qualitative Methods Newsletter #2 (Organized Section, American Political Science Association; Fall 2003)

QM Newsletter 1.2 Interpretive empirical

2. "Learning in and from improvising: Lessons from theater for organizational learning"; Reflections (The Society for Organizational Learning Journal) 2:4 (June 2001), 58-62

Reflection.Learning.Improvising

3. "Organizational culture" (with Guy B. Adams); International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration, NY; Henry Holt (1997)

25 PAENC Org Culture.Yanow

4. "The Anne Frank myth"; Judaism 49:2 (Spring 2000)

Anne Frank

5. "Sarah's silence: A newly discovered commentary on Genesis 22 by Rashi's sister"; Judaism 43:4 (Fall 1994)

Sarah's silence

Inaugural lecture

“And when I am only for myself...”: Ways of knowing, reflective practice, and passionate humility” (Strategic chair in Meaning and Method Inaugural lecture, Faculty of Social Sciences, Free University Amsterdam; 9 May 2007)

oratie Dvora Yanow

Special projects

1. Workshop in Interpretive Research Methods; Western Political Science Association (Denver, 2003); Program and bibliography

WPSA Methods Workshop Schedule and Ref List 2008

2. “Interpret This! A Conceptual and Practical Workshop in Interpretive Political Science”; Short course, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (2007); Schedule and bibliography

Interpret this. Schedule and Readings

3. “Auntie Dvora”’s notes on paper- and article-writing

Auntie Dvora's Writing Hints

Curriculum Vitae Dvora Yanow

CV Dvora Yanow fall 09