Katherine Bischoping
Associate Professor
Phone: (416) 736-2100 Ext: 77996
Email: kbischop@yorku.ca
Primary website: ResearchGate profile
Degrees
PhD, University of MichiganMSc, University of Michigan
BMath, University of Waterloo
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesProfessional Leadership
Book Review Editor, Oral History Forum d'histoire orale, March 2016 - February 2018
Director, Graduate Program in Sociology, July 2010 - June 2013
Community Contributions
Reading Committee Research Associate, Expand the Canon project, Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre, New York, January 2021-
Research Interests
- Keynote Speaker, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology's Qualitative Methods Conference, Banff - 2018
- University-Wide Teaching Award, York University - 1997
- University-Wide Teaching Award, York University - 2023
Current Research Projects
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Summary:
- Keynote Speaker, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology's Qualitative Methods Conference, Banff - 2018
- University-Wide Teaching Award, York University - 1997
- University-Wide Teaching Award, York University - 2023
This project, undertaken with Amber Gazso, examines various analytic strategies for being reflexive, i.e., for considering how, as knowers, we are implicated in the knowledge that we produce. These examinations have included (1) in Analyzing Talk in the Social Sciences, looking at how narrative, conversation, and discourse analysts each conceive of reflexivity, (2) in a chapter in press, contrasting how standpoint theory and discursive positioning analysis help to make sense of an awkward moment in an interview, and (3) in a forthcoming article, reflexively analyzing the relation of emotions to ethics.
Description:[See project summary.]
Start Date:
- Month: Jan Year: 2016
Collaborator: Amber Gazso
Collaborator Institution: York University
Collaborator Role: Co-organizer
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Summary:
Little known in the West, kindly and thrifty soldier Lei Feng (1940-1962) was established as a Chinese national hero by Mao Tsedong in 1963. The Chinese curriculum has since exhorted even its youngest students to “Learn from Lei Feng!” This project, undertaken with Zhipeng Gao, first used oral history data to examine how Lei Feng is remembered by different cohorts in China. Subsequently, we have contrasted how scholars and ordinary Chinese speak about China's generations, asked how the "truth" or "authenticity" of the Lei Feng stories is taken up in China and North America, and discussed the varied conceptions of "thrift" throughout contemporary Chinese history.
Description:[See project summary.]
Collaborator: Zhipeng Gao
Collaborator Institution: York University, Graduate Program in Psychology
Collaborator Role: Co-Principal Investigator
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Summary:
This project in intertextuality involves visual sociology analysis of the covers of sociology's classics from around the world. A first inquiry, with R. Abdelbaki, K. Ahmed, K. Banasiak, and D. Gul Kaya, compared covers of Edward W. Said's Orientalism from Islamicate contexts with those from non-Islamicate contexts. A second inquiry, with S. Chapman-Nyaho and R. Raby, looked at how covers of Discipline and Punish can transcend a narrow focus on the prison and the Panopticon. A third inquiry will be on The Souls of Black Folk.
Description:[See project summary].
K. Bischoping and A. Gazso. (2016) Analyzing Talk in the Social Sciences: Narrative, Conversation and Discourse Strategies. London, UK: SAGE.
A. Gazso and K. Bischoping (2018). “Reframing an awkward moment: A comparison of two analytic strategies for being reflexive”. Pp. 256-262 in S. Kleinknecht, L.-J. van den Scott, and C.B. Sanders, eds., The Craft of Qualitative Research, Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.
K. Bischoping, R. Abdelbaki, K. Ahmed, K. Banasiak, and D. Gül Kaya (2017). “Unsettling Orientalism: Edward W. Said’s (1978) book and its covers”. In S. Saffari, R. Akhbari, K. Abdolmaki, and E. Hamdon (eds.), Unsettling Colonial Modernity: Islamicate Contexts in Focus. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
R. Chisholm, C. Weaving, and K. Bischoping (2016). “Girl Power figures, mythic Amazons, and neoliberal risk performers: Discursively situating women who participate in Mixed Martial Arts”, pp. 279-298 in H. Thorpe and R. Olive, eds., Women in Action Sport Cultures: Identity, Politics, Experience and Pedagogy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
K. Bischoping (2014) “Identity and mutability in family stories about the Third Reich,” pp.56-73 in Ivana Maček (ed.), Engaging with Violence: New Paradigms in the Study of Genocide and Mass Political Violence. London: Routledge.
K. Bischoping (2005) “Quote, Unquote: From Transcript to Text in Ethnographic Research,” pp.141-154 in Doing Ethnography: Researching Everyday Life, D. Pawluch, C. Miall, and W. Shaffir (eds) Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press/Women’s Press.
K. Bischoping (2022). “Commentary on ‘The making of an ethnoburb’ (Liu et al. 2022) and ‘Boundless China, backward Asians’ (Liu, 2022)”. Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science Special Issue on Contemporary Innovations in Theory: Contributions from China and the Chinese Diaspora. (Invited by editor.) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-022-09692-6
K. Bischoping and A.D.K. King (2020). “The forgotten work of cultural workers: A case study from the Toronto theatre community,” Labour/Le Travail. 84, 259-278.
K. Bischoping and Z. Gao. (2020) “‘Learn from Lei Feng!’: Generations and memories of a Chinese Communist hero”. Historical Encounters Special Issue “The Politics and Practices of Memory Media in History Education”, 7(2), https://www.hej-hermes.net/_files/ugd/f067ea_686aefccc3314fe8bc7f896f8f894053.pdf
Z. Gao and K. Bischoping (2019). “The Communist hero and the April Fools’ joke: A case study in the cultural politics of authentication and fakery” Social Anthropology Special Issue “An Anthropology of Defrauding and Faking”, 27(3), 438-54.
R. Chisholm and K. Bischoping (2019). “The narrative self in rural dementia: A case study from eastern Nova Scotia”. Ageing & Society 39(7), 1436-58
A. Gazso and K. Bischoping (2018). “Feminist reflections on the relation of emotions to ethics: A case study of two awkward interviewing moments.” Forum: Qualitative Social Research Special issue on Research Ethics in Qualitative Research 19(3), Art. 7
K. Bischoping and Z. Gao (2018). “Reframing generations scholarship through the eyes of ordinary Chinese.” Chinese Sociological Dialogue 3(2):133-47.
Z. Gao and K. Bischoping (2018). “The emergence of an anti-elder discourse in 21st-century China.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 33(2):197-215.
K. Bischoping (2017). “Generations and memory: A meeting of modern concepts and postmodern questions,” Oral History Forum d’histoire orale 37 Special Issue on Generations and Memory: Continuity and Change: 1-8.
K. Bischoping and Z. Gao (2017). “Story sequences and stereotypes: A case study from talk about the crowded buses of China”. Narrative Inquiry 27(1):85-108.
K. Bischoping, S. Chapman-Nyaho and R. Raby (2016). “Linking visuality to justice through international covers of Discipline and Punish”. The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research 5:180-215.
K. Bischoping and E. Quinlan (2013), "Health and Safety Issues in Precarious Cultural Work," E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies 2(2), 97-115.
K. Bischoping and R. Olstead (2012) “A Durkheimian Reading of Gender and Morality in the Anonymous Letter Mystery,” Philosophy, Culture and Traditions 7:126-143.
K. Bischoping (2018). “Revisiting a boy named Jim: Using narrative analysis to prompt reflexivity,” Special invited paper, International Journal of Qualitative Methods 17: 1-12.
K. Bischoping and N. Laluque (2010) Curation of Nora, Leaving Torvald, Laluque Atelier Gallery and Blackcurrant Productions, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010, City of Toronto.
K. Bischoping (2009) The Demise of a Focus Group [18.5 min.]. Script by K. Bischoping, directed by G. Porter, co-produced by K. Bischoping and draft89, Toronto. Accompanied by Discussion Guide[8 pp.]
K. Bischoping (2018). Keynote address, “What ‘good stories’ have to do with reflexivity”, Qualitative Methods Conference, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, Banff, Alberta, May 1-3
K. Bischoping and Y. Ishii, guest editors (April 2017) Special Issue on Generations and Memory: Continuity and Change, Oral History Forum d’histoire orale.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | GS/SOCI6090 3.0 | A | Selected Topics In Empirical Methods | SEMR |
| Fall 2024 | GS/SOCI5995 3.0 | A | Masters Seminar | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/SOCI4000 6.0 | A | Sociology Research Capstone | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/SOCI4000 6.0 | A | Sociology Research Capstone | SEMR |
Degrees
PhD, University of MichiganMSc, University of Michigan
BMath, University of Waterloo
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesProfessional Leadership
Book Review Editor, Oral History Forum d'histoire orale, March 2016 - February 2018
Director, Graduate Program in Sociology, July 2010 - June 2013
Community Contributions
Reading Committee Research Associate, Expand the Canon project, Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre, New York, January 2021-
Research Interests
Awards
Current Research Projects
-
Summary:
This project, undertaken with Amber Gazso, examines various analytic strategies for being reflexive, i.e., for considering how, as knowers, we are implicated in the knowledge that we produce. These examinations have included (1) in Analyzing Talk in the Social Sciences, looking at how narrative, conversation, and discourse analysts each conceive of reflexivity, (2) in a chapter in press, contrasting how standpoint theory and discursive positioning analysis help to make sense of an awkward moment in an interview, and (3) in a forthcoming article, reflexively analyzing the relation of emotions to ethics.
Description:[See project summary.]
Project Type: Self-FundedRole: Co-organizer
Start Date:
- Month: Jan Year: 2016
Collaborator: Amber Gazso
Collaborator Institution: York University
Collaborator Role: Co-organizer
-
Summary:
Little known in the West, kindly and thrifty soldier Lei Feng (1940-1962) was established as a Chinese national hero by Mao Tsedong in 1963. The Chinese curriculum has since exhorted even its youngest students to “Learn from Lei Feng!” This project, undertaken with Zhipeng Gao, first used oral history data to examine how Lei Feng is remembered by different cohorts in China. Subsequently, we have contrasted how scholars and ordinary Chinese speak about China's generations, asked how the "truth" or "authenticity" of the Lei Feng stories is taken up in China and North America, and discussed the varied conceptions of "thrift" throughout contemporary Chinese history.
Description:[See project summary.]
Project Type: FundedRole: Co-Principal Investigator
Collaborator: Zhipeng Gao
Collaborator Institution: York University, Graduate Program in Psychology
Collaborator Role: Co-Principal Investigator
-
Summary:
This project in intertextuality involves visual sociology analysis of the covers of sociology's classics from around the world. A first inquiry, with R. Abdelbaki, K. Ahmed, K. Banasiak, and D. Gul Kaya, compared covers of Edward W. Said's Orientalism from Islamicate contexts with those from non-Islamicate contexts. A second inquiry, with S. Chapman-Nyaho and R. Raby, looked at how covers of Discipline and Punish can transcend a narrow focus on the prison and the Panopticon. A third inquiry will be on The Souls of Black Folk.
Description:[See project summary].
Project Type: Self-FundedRole: Organizer
All Publications
A. Gazso and K. Bischoping (2018). “Reframing an awkward moment: A comparison of two analytic strategies for being reflexive”. Pp. 256-262 in S. Kleinknecht, L.-J. van den Scott, and C.B. Sanders, eds., The Craft of Qualitative Research, Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.
K. Bischoping, R. Abdelbaki, K. Ahmed, K. Banasiak, and D. Gül Kaya (2017). “Unsettling Orientalism: Edward W. Said’s (1978) book and its covers”. In S. Saffari, R. Akhbari, K. Abdolmaki, and E. Hamdon (eds.), Unsettling Colonial Modernity: Islamicate Contexts in Focus. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
R. Chisholm, C. Weaving, and K. Bischoping (2016). “Girl Power figures, mythic Amazons, and neoliberal risk performers: Discursively situating women who participate in Mixed Martial Arts”, pp. 279-298 in H. Thorpe and R. Olive, eds., Women in Action Sport Cultures: Identity, Politics, Experience and Pedagogy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
K. Bischoping (2014) “Identity and mutability in family stories about the Third Reich,” pp.56-73 in Ivana Maček (ed.), Engaging with Violence: New Paradigms in the Study of Genocide and Mass Political Violence. London: Routledge.
K. Bischoping (2005) “Quote, Unquote: From Transcript to Text in Ethnographic Research,” pp.141-154 in Doing Ethnography: Researching Everyday Life, D. Pawluch, C. Miall, and W. Shaffir (eds) Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press/Women’s Press.
K. Bischoping and A. Gazso. (2016) Analyzing Talk in the Social Sciences: Narrative, Conversation and Discourse Strategies. London, UK: SAGE.
K. Bischoping (2022). “Commentary on ‘The making of an ethnoburb’ (Liu et al. 2022) and ‘Boundless China, backward Asians’ (Liu, 2022)”. Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science Special Issue on Contemporary Innovations in Theory: Contributions from China and the Chinese Diaspora. (Invited by editor.) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-022-09692-6
K. Bischoping and A.D.K. King (2020). “The forgotten work of cultural workers: A case study from the Toronto theatre community,” Labour/Le Travail. 84, 259-278.
K. Bischoping and Z. Gao. (2020) “‘Learn from Lei Feng!’: Generations and memories of a Chinese Communist hero”. Historical Encounters Special Issue “The Politics and Practices of Memory Media in History Education”, 7(2), https://www.hej-hermes.net/_files/ugd/f067ea_686aefccc3314fe8bc7f896f8f894053.pdf
Z. Gao and K. Bischoping (2019). “The Communist hero and the April Fools’ joke: A case study in the cultural politics of authentication and fakery” Social Anthropology Special Issue “An Anthropology of Defrauding and Faking”, 27(3), 438-54.
R. Chisholm and K. Bischoping (2019). “The narrative self in rural dementia: A case study from eastern Nova Scotia”. Ageing & Society 39(7), 1436-58
A. Gazso and K. Bischoping (2018). “Feminist reflections on the relation of emotions to ethics: A case study of two awkward interviewing moments.” Forum: Qualitative Social Research Special issue on Research Ethics in Qualitative Research 19(3), Art. 7
K. Bischoping and Z. Gao (2018). “Reframing generations scholarship through the eyes of ordinary Chinese.” Chinese Sociological Dialogue 3(2):133-47.
Z. Gao and K. Bischoping (2018). “The emergence of an anti-elder discourse in 21st-century China.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 33(2):197-215.
K. Bischoping (2017). “Generations and memory: A meeting of modern concepts and postmodern questions,” Oral History Forum d’histoire orale 37 Special Issue on Generations and Memory: Continuity and Change: 1-8.
K. Bischoping and Z. Gao (2017). “Story sequences and stereotypes: A case study from talk about the crowded buses of China”. Narrative Inquiry 27(1):85-108.
K. Bischoping, S. Chapman-Nyaho and R. Raby (2016). “Linking visuality to justice through international covers of Discipline and Punish”. The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research 5:180-215.
K. Bischoping and E. Quinlan (2013), "Health and Safety Issues in Precarious Cultural Work," E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies 2(2), 97-115.
K. Bischoping and R. Olstead (2012) “A Durkheimian Reading of Gender and Morality in the Anonymous Letter Mystery,” Philosophy, Culture and Traditions 7:126-143.
K. Bischoping (2018). “Revisiting a boy named Jim: Using narrative analysis to prompt reflexivity,” Special invited paper, International Journal of Qualitative Methods 17: 1-12.
K. Bischoping and N. Laluque (2010) Curation of Nora, Leaving Torvald, Laluque Atelier Gallery and Blackcurrant Productions, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010, City of Toronto.
K. Bischoping (2009) The Demise of a Focus Group [18.5 min.]. Script by K. Bischoping, directed by G. Porter, co-produced by K. Bischoping and draft89, Toronto. Accompanied by Discussion Guide[8 pp.]
K. Bischoping (2018). Keynote address, “What ‘good stories’ have to do with reflexivity”, Qualitative Methods Conference, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, Banff, Alberta, May 1-3
K. Bischoping and Y. Ishii, guest editors (April 2017) Special Issue on Generations and Memory: Continuity and Change, Oral History Forum d’histoire orale.
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | GS/SOCI6090 3.0 | A | Selected Topics In Empirical Methods | SEMR |
| Fall 2024 | GS/SOCI5995 3.0 | A | Masters Seminar | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/SOCI4000 6.0 | A | Sociology Research Capstone | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/SOCI4000 6.0 | A | Sociology Research Capstone | SEMR |
