Yvonna S. Lincoln received her Ed.D. in Higher Education from Indiana University in 1977. Dr. Lincoln joined the Educational Administration and Human Resource Development Department at Texas A&M as a Professor in 1991. She teaches graduate courses in qualitative research methods, the foundations of American higher education, proposal preparation and organizational theory. Her research focuses on neoliberal and corporatization shifts in faculty worklife and university administration, and also in the development of qualitative methods. She is the co-editor of Qualitative Inquiry Journal, and serves on several other editorial boards. She has written over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters, and written, edited or co-edited more than a dozen books, She has chaired over 100 doctoral committees, and served on many more. She won the Presidential Citation from the American Educational Research Association in 2013.