Allison Daniel Anders, PhD, is an associate professor in the educational foundations and inquiry program and the qualitative research program at the University of South Carolina, USA. She studies critical and postcritical ethnography and contexts of education. Her work addresses the everyday experiences of children, families, and communities, and issues of access, equity, and justice.

George W. Noblit, PhD, is the Joseph R. Neikirk Professor of Sociology of Education Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His scholarship has won awards from the American Educational Research Association, the American Educational Studies Association, the International Reading Association and the Society of Professors of Education. He is a well-known qualitative research methodologist and author and editor of many books either on, or using, qualitative methods.