Carolyn Ellis
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Carolyn Ellis is an American communication scholar known for her research into autoethnography, a reflexive approach to research, writing, and storytelling that connects the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political. She studies how individuals negotiate identities, emotions, and meaning-making in and through close relationships.[1][2]
She is a Distinguished professor Emerita at the University of South Florida.[3]
Ellis received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry in 2012,[4] and a Legacy Lifetime Award from the NCA Ethnography Division in 2013.[5]
