Crossing Borders of Culture, Research, and Identity

• In Event: Interrogations of Movement and Purpose in Qualitative Method and Methodology

Abstract

This duoethnography explores how researchers pursued truth using a democratic research approach that assisted them in developing a scholarly identity as they crossed geographic, cultural, institutional, identity, and methodological borders. These researchers became more culturally proficient through their fieldwork and self-study. Their autoethnographic narratives addressed social justice issues encountered in multiple cultural contexts. The researchers became more culturally proficient by shifting back and forth between insider, outsider, and in-betweener positions, developed their voices as researchers by increasing self-awareness, and practiced inclusivity by amplifying marginalized voices. Their self-reflective analysis of autoethnographic writing speaks to early career and graduate qualitative researchers who must recognize their positionality and their placement on the cultural proficiency continuum to be effective scholars in cross-cultural research.

Authors

• Carol Rogers-Shaw, University of Dayton
  Presenting Author

• Corinne Brion, University of Dayton
  Non-Presenting Author