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Patti A. Lather was born on March 17, 1948, in Huron, South Dakota, United States. She is the daughter of Ned and Betty (Dollenbacher) Lather.
Brookings, SD 57007, USA
South Dakota State University
610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Purdue University
107 S Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Indiana University
Minnesota State University, Mankato, 730 Maywood Ave, Mankato, MN 56001, United States
Mankato State University
Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Ohio State University
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Patti A. Lather was born on March 17, 1948, in Huron, South Dakota, United States. She is the daughter of Ned and Betty (Dollenbacher) Lather.
Lather graduated from South Dakota State University with a bachelor's degree in 1970. She then received her master's degree from Purdue University in 1972 and her doctorate from Indiana University in 1983.
Lather started her career as a teacher of high school English, history and American studies in 1973. From 1983 to 1988, she worked as an assistant professor of women's studies at Mankato State University.
Beginning in 1988, Lather taught qualitative research, feminist methodology and gender and education at Ohio State University, first as an assistant professor, then as an associate professor and since 1997, as a professor of women's studies.
Since July 2014, Lather is Professor Emerita in Educational Studies at Ohio State University with courtesy appointments in the Gender and Sexuality Studies and Comparative Studies at Ohio State.
Patti Lather is best known as a scholar and feminist methodologist. Her articles on feminist methodology, qualitative research and gender and education are published in leading disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals. She has authored five books: Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/in the Postmodern (1991 Critics Choice Award), Troubling the Angels: Women Living with HIV/AIDS, co-authored with Chris Smithies (1998 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title), Getting Lost: Feminist Efforts Toward a Double(d) Science (2008 Critics Choice Award), Engaging (Social) Science: Policy from the Side of the Messy (2011 Critics Choice Award), and (Post)Critical Methodologies: The Science Possible After the Critiques: The Selected Work of Patti Lather, in press with Routledge. Her current research is focused around cultural studies of numeracy and the uses of Walter Benjamin in a materialist cultural analysis of sports and U.S. secondary schooling.
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1995Lather is single and lives in Ohio.