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When Michael Maltz invited me to contribute a methodological autobiography to this volume, I turned for help to Amy Farrell, whom I knew first as a graduate student (I chaired her dissertation committee) and now as a colleague (we teach in the same department). Amy is a topnotch methodologist, and I knew she would be able to help me figure out whether I did, indeed, have a methodological autobiography. We conducted four open-ended interviews structured around an academic life history. We transcribed the interviews and condensed those four interviews into this edited piece.—NR
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James W. Trent later wrote a wonderful book on this: Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States (University of California Press, 1995).
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Russo, V. (1987). The celluloid closet. Harper & Row (1st ed., 1981).
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Another Northeastern colleague.
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Rafter, N., Farrell, A. (2015). Playing in the Sandbox: A Methodological Conversation. In: Maltz, M., Rice, S. (eds) Envisioning Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15868-6_13
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