Kakali Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor, College of Education

Department of Educational Administration
and Research

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Faculty Center 224

6300 Ocean Dr.

Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5818

(361) 825-6017

kakali.bhattacharya@tamucc.edu

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Kakali Bhattacharya joins the Department of Educational Administration and Research as a specialist in qualitative research methodology. Previously, she was the qualitative research methods faculty member at the University of Memphis' Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Research. She received her Ph.D. in educational psychology with a specialization in qualitative inquiry from the University of Georgia's Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics Program.

Bhattacharya is a well-published scholar in qualitative methods, de/colonizing epistemologies, and transnational feminism in the context of higher education. Her work has appeared in leading qualitative methods peer-reviewed journals and as book chapters in seminal books that explore cutting-edge methodological possibilities in qualitative inquiry and higher education.

Bhattacharya's research interests include de/colonizing qualitative inquiry, transnational experiences in higher education, and technology-integrated learning and social environments. She received a master's degree in instructional development from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and has a cognate specialization in instructional technology and adult education from the University of Georgia. Bhattacharya's work in virtual ethnography, wikis, and the role of instructional technology in graduate-level qualitative methods classes demonstrates the urgency of research in these areas as technology continues to blur borders.

Bhattacharya is a committed student-directed educator and researcher with teaching and research awards from the University of Georgia and the University of Memphis, respectively.