Michael D. Giardina is Professor of Qualitative Inquiry and Physical Culture in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology (#649) and a Research Fellow of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. He is the author of editor of more than 30 books including The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research (6th edition; with Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, and Gaile S. Cannella; Sage, 2023), Qualitative Inquiry in Transition--Pasts, Presents, and Futures: A Critical Reader (with Norman K. Denzin; Routledge, 2024), and the award-winning Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism (with Joshua I. Newman; PalgraveMacmillan, 2011). He is the editor of three qualitative research journals published by SAGE (Qualitative Inquiry; Cultural Studies?Critical Methodologies; International Review of Qualitative Research), and three book series with Routledge on qualitative methods, including the series Qualitative Research in Sport & Physical Activity (with Brett Smith). From 2015-2020 he was Editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal, and from 2020-2025 he was Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI). He can be followed on Twitter/X @mdgiardinaFSU, or found on the soccer field watching his son star as a playmaking forward on his club team. Michele K. Donnelly is an Associate Professor of Sport Management at Brock University, Canada. She is the author of Gender Equality and the Olympic Programme (Routledge, 2023) and co-editor of Physical Culture, Ethnography, and the Body: Theory, Method, and Praxis (Routledge, 2017) and Youth Culture and Sport; Identity, Power, and Politics (with Routledge, 2007). Her work has also appeared in books such as the SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research (6th edition) and SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design. Devra J. Waldman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University. Her research has been published in such leading journals as Progress in Human Geography, Geoforum, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Cultural Studies?Critical Methodologies.
