Dvora Yanow

Dvora Yanow is a policy and organizational ethnographer and interpretive methodologist whose research and teaching are shaped by an overall interest in the communication of meaning in organizational and policy settings. Currently visiting professor in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Political Science Department, University of Amsterdam, she held the 2005-2010 term Strategic Chair in Meaning and Method in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam). Her present research investigates state-created categories for race-ethnic identity, immigrant integration policies and citizen-making practices, policy frames and framing, and research regulation policies and practices, on the policy side ; organizational and science/technology museums, on the methodological side; and spatial and practice studies, on the organizational side. Her recent books include Constructing « Race » and « ethnicity » in America : Category-making in Public Policy and Administration (Armonk, N.Y., M.E. Sharpe, 2003 ; winner of the 2004 Aspa and 2007 Herbert A. Simon-Apsa book awards) and the co-edited Interpretation and Method : Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn (Armonk, N.Y., M.E. Sharpe, 2006) and Organizational Spaces : Rematerializing the Workaday World (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2010).