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Patricia Leavy
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| Education | PhD in Sociology |
| Alma mater | Boston College |
| Known for | Arts-based research |
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Patricia Leavy (born June 13, 1975) is an American writer and thinker. She is known for her work in sociology, which is the study of how people live together in groups. Patricia Leavy has written many books, both fiction (made-up stories) and non-fiction (true facts).
She is a big supporter of something called arts-based research. This is a cool way to combine art and science to study things. She also helped start and edit a journal called Art/Research International.
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Early Life and Studies
Patricia Leavy went to Boston College. There, she earned a special degree called a Ph.D. in sociology. This means she studied a lot about how societies work.
Her Career
From 2002 to 2012, Patricia Leavy taught at Stonehill College. She was a professor of sociology and also led programs about gender studies and criminology (the study of crime). She also taught at other universities like Boston College and Northeastern University.
In 2012, she decided to leave teaching at universities. She became an independent scholar, which means she continued her research and writing on her own. She also became a novelist and a public intellectual, sharing her ideas with many people. She created a special way of writing called 'social fiction'. This style of writing has helped many other scholars around the world.
As an Author
Patricia Leavy has written over thirty books! These include both stories and factual books. She also helps create and edit many book series. Some of these series teach about writing, race, gender, and how to understand research.
| Year Published | Title | Publisher | Genre |
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| 2011 | Low-Fat Love | Sense Publishers | Fiction |
| 2013 | American Circumstance | Sense Publishers | Fiction |
| 2015 | Low-Fat Love, Expanded Anniversary Edition | Sense Publishers | Fiction |
| 2016 | Blue | Sense Publishers | Fiction |
| 2016 | American Circumstance: Anniversary Edition | Sense Publishers | Fiction |
| 2016 | Low-Fat Love Stories | Sense Publishers | Fiction |
| 2019 | Spark | Guilford Press | Fiction |
| 2020 | Film | Brill/Sense | Fiction |
| 2020 | Candy Floss Collection | Brill/Sense | Fiction |
| 2020 | Shooting Stars | Brill/Sense | Fiction |
| 2020 | Twinkle | Brill/Sense | Fiction |
| 2003 | Approaches to Qualitative Research: A Reader on Theory and Practice | Oxford University Press | Non-fiction |
| 2005 | The Practice of Qualitative Research | SAGE Publications, Inc | Non-fiction |
| 2006 | Feminist Research Practice: A Primer | SAGE Publications, Inc | Non-fiction |
| 2006 | Emergent Methods in Social Research | SAGE Publications, Inc | Non-fiction |
| 2007 | Iconic Events: Media, Politics, and Power in Retelling History | Lexington Books | Non-fiction |
| 2008 | Handbook of Emergent Methods | Guilford Press | Non-fiction |
| 2009 | Method Meets Art: Arts Based Research Practice | Guilford Press | Non-fiction |
| 2009 | Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations | Brill Publishers | Non-fiction |
| 2010 | The Practice of Qualitative Research (Second Edition) | SAGE Publications, Inc. | Non-fiction |
| 2011 | Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research: Using Problem Centered Methodologies | Routledge | Non-fiction |
| 2014 | The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research | Oxford University Press | Non-fiction |
| 2014 | Gender and Pop Culture: A Text Reader | Sense Publishers | Non-fiction |
| 2015 | Method Meets Art: Arts Based Research Practice (Second Edition) | Guilford Press | Non-fiction |
| 2017 | Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches | Guilford Press | Non-fiction |
| 2018 | Contemporary Feminist Research: From Theory to Practice | Guilford Press | Non-fiction |
| 2019 | Handbook of Arts-Based Research | Guilford Press | Non-fiction |
| 2019 | The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship | Oxford University Press | Non-fiction |
| 2020 | The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research (Second Edition) | Oxford University Press | Non-fiction |
| 2020 | Method Meets Art: Arts-based Research Practice (Third Edition) | Guilford Press | Non-fiction |
Public Speaking Engagements
Patricia Leavy is also a popular speaker. She has given important speeches at many conferences around the world. In 2012, she spoke in Barcelona, Spain. The next year, she was a speaker in Budapest, Hungary.
She has also given talks in Florida and at New York University. In 2017, she spoke at a symposium in Ningbo, China. In 2018, she gave keynote speeches in Montreal and at SUNY-New Paltz.
Awards and Honors
Patricia Leavy has received many awards for her work.
- In 2010, she was named "New England Sociologist of the Year."
- She received a Special Achievement Award in 2014 from the American Creativity Association.
- She also won the Egon Guba Memorial Keynote Lecture Award.
- In 2015, she got a Special Career Award from a group called the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
- The National Art Education Association gave her a Distinguished Service Award in 2018.
In 2015, she was invited to a special meeting in Austria. It was about how art and the brain work together.
Her book, Research Design, won third place in the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards in 2017.
In 2018, two of her books won the USA Best Book Award:
- Privilege Through the Looking-Glass won for Nonfiction Anthologies.
- Handbook of Arts-Based Research won for Education/Academic.
Also in 2018, SUNY New Paltz created an award named after her: the "Patricia Leavy Award for Art and Social Justice." She was also honored by the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Her book, Method Meets Art, received an award from the American Educational Research Association.
More recently, her books have continued to win awards:
- In 2019, Spark won the Living Now Book Award for Adventure Fiction. It also won the American Fiction Award for Inspirational Fiction.
- In 2020, her book Film received the American Fiction Award for Inspirational Fiction.
- Her Candy Floss Collection of three novels also won the American Fiction Award for Anthologies in 2020.
