Editorial. A Festschrift for William Shaffir: Guest Editors’ Introduction

Antony J. Puddephatt; Steven Kleinknecht

doi:10.18778/1733-8077.16.2.01

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Antony J. Puddephatt Lakehead University, Canada https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3579-0829
Steven Kleinknecht Brescia University College, Canada https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-1660

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https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.16.2.01

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Author Biographies

Antony J. Puddephatt, Lakehead University, Canada

Antony J. Puddephatt is a Professor of Sociology at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada. He has published on the topics of symbolic interactionism, pragmatist social theory, the sociology of knowledge, the culture of competitive chess, environmental sociology, Canadian sociology, and open-access publishing. With William Shaffir and Steven Kleinknecht, he is a co-editor of Ethnographies Revisited (Routledge, 2009), and with Bradley Brewster, he is a co-editor of Microsociological Perspectives for Environmental Sociology (Routledge, 2018).
Steven Kleinknecht, Brescia University College, Canada

Steven Kleinknecht is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Brescia University College. His qualitative research has focused on the computer hacker and Old Order Mennonite subcultures. With Lisa-Jo van den Scott and Carrie Sanders, he co-edited The Craft of Qualitative Research: A Handbook (Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2018), and with Antony Puddephatt and William Shaffir, he co-edited Ethnographies Revisited (Routledge, 2009).

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