He conducts research and scholarship on qualitative research methods and literacy learning and teaching in school and non-school settings. He is especially interested in the philosophical and theoretical foundations of qualitative inquiry and the quasi-unique affordances of focus groups in qualitative research studies. His theoretical and empirical work has appeared in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, Journal of Literacy Research, Linguistics and Education, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and Qualitative Inquiry. Citations for publications especially relevant to the course he is teaching at the Qualitative Research Summer Institute are listed below: