Department of Leadership and Educational Studies

Dr. Alecia Jackson is professor of educational research at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina – where she is also affiliated faculty in the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies program.

Dr. Jackson's research interests bring feminist, poststructural, and posthuman theories of power/knowledge, language, materiality, and subjectivity to bear on a range of overlapping topics: deconstructions of voice and method; conceptual analyses of resistance, freedom, and agency in girls’ and women’s lives; and qualitative analysis in the “posts.” Her work seeks to animate philosophical frameworks in the production of the new, and her current projects are focused on the ontological turn, qualitative inquiry, and thought.

She has been recognized for her work and teaching through numerous awards:

• The Academy of Outstanding Mentors. The Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies. Appalachian State University. Spring 2023.
• The Provost’s Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. Appalachian State University. 2020.
• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award. The Reich College of Education. Appalachian State University. 2020.
• The North Carolina Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award. The Reich College of Education. Appalachian State University. 2019.
• 100 Scholars Research Award. The Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies. Appalachian State University. Spring 2019.
• Outstanding Mentoring Award. The Reich College of Education. Appalachian State University. Spring 2019.

She has publications in The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Qualitative Inquiry, The International Review of Qualitative Research, Qualitative Research, Gender and Education, and numerous book chapters, and has presented her methodological scholarship at U.S. university campuses as well as internationally (Australia, Norway, and the UK). With Lisa Mazzei, she is co-author of Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research (2012; 2022), and co-editor of Voice in Qualitative Inquiry (2009).

Selected Publications

• Jackson, A. Y. & Mazzei, L. (Eds.) (In progress). Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry. London: Routledge Press. Publication date: summer 2023.
• Jackson, A. Y. & Mazzei, L. (2023). Thinking with theory in qualitative research (2nd edition). London: Routledge Press.
• Jackson, A. Y. & Mazzei, L. A. (Eds.). (2009). Voice in qualitative inquiry: Challenging conventional, interpretive, and critical conceptions in qualitative research. London: Routledge.