Judith Davidson

Judith Davidson (1953- ) author, podcaster, and textile artist, is the author and podcaster of Black and White Makes Gray: A Memoir of an Inter-racial Childhood, available now where ever you get your favorite podcasts. Follow her on this and other adventures at The Gray Zone, her substack newsletter.

Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, College of Education, Research Methods and Evaluation in Education Ph.D. Program, she was and continues to be passionate about the study and teaching of qualitative research methods. She has written about methodology (Qualitative Research and Complex Teams, Qualitative Research Design for Software Users), as well as using qualitative research methodology as a means to inquire about diverse topics (Sexting: Gender and Teens; Living Reading: Exploring the Lives of Reading Teachers).

She is a graduate of John Adams High School in Portland, Oregon (See: Cuban and Tyack's Tinkering Toward Utopia); Antioch University (Japanese Language and Writing for Children); Bank Street College of Education (Reading Education); and, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D. in Education).