Qualitative & Multi-Method Research is a biannual publication of the APSA section Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, devoted to the study, development, and practice of qualitative and multi-method research techniques. ​

Meet the editor!

Jennifer Cyr is Associate Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona. Her substantive research interests focus on representation, identity, and institutional stability and change in Latin America. Her methodological interests center on the rigorous integration of qualitative methods, and in particular focus groups, into mixed-methods research. Her first book, The Fates of Political Parties: Institutional Crisis, Continuity, and Change in Latin America, was published at Cambridge University Press (2017). She also published Focus Groups for the Social Science Researcher in 2019 (Cambridge University Press). She has articles in a wide variety of journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Sociological Methods and Research, and Revista de Ciencia Política, as well as several chapters in edited volumes. She received her PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and has an MA in Political Science from Northwestern University as well as an MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Florida International University.