Ron Chenail, Ph.D.

Ron Chenail received his master’s degree from the University of Houston in the mid 1980s in counseling. In 1986 he went to Texas Tech to study family therapy. At that time he learned about the ethnographic interview. He conducted a visual ethnography on how kids in a child development school structured their time. He was asked to teach advanced qualitative classes. He became interested in discourse analysis and recursive frame analysis, and for his dissertation studied how families talk with cardiologists. Chenail followed Brad Keeney to Ft. Lauderdale and Nova Southeastern University in 1989 where he is currently Professor of Family Therapy and Assistant to the President for Academic Affairs at Nova Southeastern University. He has just accepted a position as the editor-elect of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. He continues to teach, direct dissertations, and contribute to the qualitative research field. Chenail is the founder, editor, and driving force behind The Qualitative Report, an online journal originally established in 1990. 

You can access The Qualitative Report at: 
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/

Contact Me

Nova Southeastern University
3301 College Avenue
Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Florida 33314-7796 

Email: ron@nova.edu