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(Quantitative, Qualitative, and Psychometrics Program), the Department of Anthropology, and the De- partment of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL).. He also serves as Dean’s Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Academy at UNL and as a Research Associate for the Kala- hari Peoples Fund of southern Africa. As a research methodologist, he teaches and conducts research on the history, epistemology, application, and instruction of qualitative research across disciplines, research ethics, grounded theory, ethnography, grounded ethnography, and mixed methods. He is also involved in several other research tracks including faculty teaching and evaluation strategies, interdisciplinary collab- oration