Norman Denzin

n-denzin@uiuc.edu

College of Communications Scholar

Research Professor of Communications

Professor of Sociology

Professor of Cinema Studies

Professor of Criticism and Interpretive Theory

Primary areas of interest: Cultural studies and interpretive research, cinema and critical race theory, performance studies, performance ethnography.

Denzin's research covers the entire span from theory to institutional practice. His books The Alcoholic Self and The Recovering Alcoholic won the prestigious Charles H. Cooley Award of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and were nominated for the C. Wright Mills Award.
His recent publications include: Screening Race: Hollywood and a Cinema of Racial Violence, Interpretive Ethnography, The Cinematic Society, Images of Postmodern Society, The Research Act, Interpretive Interactionism, and Hollywood Shot by Shot.

In 1997 he was awarded the George Herbert Award from the Study of Symbolic Interaction.

He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of The Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2/e, co-editor of Qualitative Inquiry, editor of Cultural Studies--Critical Methodologies, and series editor of Studies in Symbolic Interaction.

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Iowa.