Dr. Kakali's Services

I inspire justice-oriented qualitative researchers overcome the constant pressure to fragment and minimize themselves. I do so by guiding scholars through a process that aligns their purpose of being, while enhancing their research and writing skills to help craft empowered career paths.

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Find out how you can create an energizing scholarly agenda, effortlessly align theory, methodology, personality, community, and ancestral knowledge. Tap into your zone of genius.

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Grab a Free Article Argument Chart to Organize Your Literature Review

Use this chart to organize all your articles and readings for your literature review. You can compare and contrast purpose, research questions, theoretical framework, design, and the so-what's of each article to create synthesis level arguments.

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Culturally Grounded, Compassionate, and Justice-Oriented Mentoring

After talking with Kakali, I was able to realize the importance of doing work that resonates with me. She was also encouraging to me in reminding me that the work I was doing actually DID matter, despite how tragically humble I was about it. I appreciate Kakali's qualitative research expertise, compassion, her humor and light-heartedness, which makes it easy to work with her and focus on expanding my well-being.

Dr. Lenwood Hayman, Associate Professor

I reached out to Kakali because of how she mentored other scholars of color. Her ability to do critical work without losing her cultural and justice roots is inspiring. I learned how to navigate the academy as an Asian scholar, think about methodologies critically, beyond the traditional choices, and mentor minoritized students and support their culturally grounded ways of being and "scholar-ing."

Dr. Jia "Grace" Liang, Associate Professor

Working with Dr. Bhattacharya

As a scholar and qualitative methodologist, I mentor nationally and internationally. I offer specific, customized mentoring. I specifically tune into what is it like to do the work, in your spaces, as you, in your body, with all its potentials and barriers. I stay current in the field via participating in multiple professional organizations, through my scholarship, and by being an editor for a critical and de/colonial qualitative research data analysis book series with Routledge, whose authors have won international qualitative research book awards. I encourage deep, critical, and compassionate introspection and expansive thinking about your paths ahead of you so you can shine in your brilliance.

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Your Instructor

Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya is a multiple award-winning professor. For the last two decades, Dr. Bhattacharya has explored qualitative research through critical, de/colonial, creative, transnational, and contemplative perspectives.

She has received the 2022 inaugural Egon G. Guba Award for Outstanding Contributions to Qualitative Research from the American Educational Research Association's Qualitative Research Special Interest Group (AERA QR-SIG). She has received several distinguished researcher, scholar of color, and distinguished alumni awards from the American Educational Research Association, the University of Georgia, and the National Association of Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, Asian, Pacific Islander Knowledge Community.

She is the 2018 winner of AERA's Mid-Career Scholar of Color Award and the 2018 winner of AERA's Mentoring Award from Division G: Social Context of Education. Her co-authored text with Kent Gillen, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative, has won a 2017 Outstanding Publication Award from AERA (SIG 168) and a 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the International Congress of Qualitative Research. She was recognized as one of the top 25 women in higher education by Diverse magazine for her significant contribution to social justice work and efforts to de/colonize qualitative research. Additionally, she was one of the six distinguished scholars invited by the Association of Studies in Higher Education as a featured speaker for their 2018 Inaugural Woke Methodology Series.

She has over 100 publications, including refereed articles, books, and book chapters, in addition to editorial responsibilities with a Routledge Book Series entitled Futures of Data Analysis in Qualitative Research.

Substantively, she has explored transnational issues of race, class, and gender in higher education. She has crafted Par/Des(i) ontoepistemologies with associated theoretical tenets to highlight the complex negotiations south Asian transnationals engage in diasporic locations.

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