Anna CohenMiller

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

^ = mentorship of early career scholars

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PkfJgj0AAAAJ&hl=en (approx. 700 citations, h-index: 16, as of Mar 2024)

MONOGRAPH - BOOKS

• CohenMiller, A., & Grace, K. (forthcoming). Justice-Centered Mixed Methods. Guilford Press.
• CohenMiller, A. S. (2024). Transformative Moments in Qualitative Research: Method, Theory and Reflection. Routledge. (link)
• ^CohenMiller, A. S. & Boivin, N. (2021). Questions in Qualitative Social Justice Research in Multicultural Contexts. Routledge. (link)

EDITED BOOKS

• ^CohenMiller, A., Hinton-Smith, T., Mazanderani, F. & Samuel, N. (2022). Leading Change in Gender and Diversity in Higher Education from Margins to Mainstream. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Leading-change-in-gender-and-diversity-in-international-higher-education/Miller-Hinton-Smith-Samuel-Mazanderani/p/book/9781032261737

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

• ^CohenMiller, A., & Dikanchieva, L. (forthcoming). Hope, and the unsaid: Collaborative practice, artistic interpretation, and a decolonial response to living in and through war. Special issue: Ukraine, a decolonizing global response: Call to action for coalition building through inclusive inquiry and practices. Critical Studies ← → Critical Methodologies.

• ^CohenMiller, A., Izekenova, Z., & Tabaeva, A. (2022). Graduate student mothers and issues of justice: Steps, challenges, and benefits of a systematic review for examining Master’s Theses and Doctoral Dissertations. The Qualitative Report, 27(10), 2380-2403. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5137 - open access

• ^Saniyazova, A., CohenMiller, A., Kadylova, A., & Rakisheva, A. (2022). Gendered aspects of undergraduate student experience in the time of COVID-19: A case study of Nazarbayev University. European Education.

• ^Oralbayeva, N., Amirova, A., CohenMiller, A., & Sandygulova, A. (2022). Cognitive Learning and robotics: Innovative teaching for inclusivity. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/6/8/65/htm - open access

• CohenMiller, A. (2022). Asynchronous online photovoice: Practical steps and challenges to amplify voice for equity, inclusion, and social justice. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/ Forum: Qualitative Social, 23(2). Art. 7. https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3860 - open access

• ^CohenMiller, A., & Izekenova, Z. (2022). Motherhood in academia during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international online photovoice study addressing equity and inclusion in higher education. Innovative Higher Education, 47, 813–835. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-022-09605-w (Highlighted in the Nature Public Health Emergency Collection journal)

• ^CohenMiller, A., Demers, D., Schnackenberg, H., & Izekenova, Z. (2022) “You are seen; you matter:” Applying the theory of Gendered organizations to equity and inclusion for motherscholars in higher education. Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 15(1), 87-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/26379112.2022.2025816

• ^CohenMiller, A., Durrani, N., Kataeva, Z., & Makhmetova, Z. (2022) Conducting focus groups in multicultural educational contexts: Lessons learned and methodological insights. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221076928 - open access

• CohenMiller, A. (2020). Spiraling. Academic Motherhood and COVID-19. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement. 11(2), 9-20. https://jarm.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jarm/issue/view/2317 (invited for republication in a multiple series for InsideHigherEd; reposted in the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity articles of global interest, University of Hong Kong, link) - open access

• CohenMiller, A. S., Demers, D., & Schnackenberg, H. (2020). Rigid flexibility in research: Seeing the opportunities in “failed” qualitative research. Special issue: Qualitative and Mixed Methods Failures, B. Sousa & A. Clark (Eds). International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19, 1-6. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1609406920963782 - open access

• ^Zhexenova, Z., Amirova, A., Abdikarimova, M., Kudaibergenov, K., Baimakhan, N., Tleubayev, B., Asselborn, T., Johal, W., Dillenbourg, P., CohenMiller, A., & Sandygulova, A. (2020). A comparison of social robot to tablet and teacher in a new script learning context. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Section Robot Assisted Education, Human-Robot Interaction. (Authorship in reverse order of primary involvement; top 5 journal internationally for downloads). https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2020.00099/abstract - open access

• CohenMiller, A. S. (2020). Performing, passing, and covering motherhood in academia: A heartful autoethnography. LEARNing Landscapes, 13(1), 97-114. https://doi.org/10.36510/learnland.v13i1.1006 - open access

• ^CohenMiller, A. S., Smat, N., Yenikeyeva, A., & Yassinova, K. (2020). Analyzing social media with a gender audit: Pedagogy and practice in the qualitative research classroom. The Qualitative Report, 25(5). https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol25/iss5/4/ -open access



• CohenMiller, A. S., Koo, S., Collins, N., & Lewis, J. (2020). EXPOsing gender in science: A visual analysis with lessons for gender awareness and science diplomacy. Gender, Technology and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/09718524.2019.1695519

• Ajodhia, A. & CohenMiller, A. (2019). Can arts-informed pedagogy facilitate communities of learning and belonging for minoritised early years children? An integrative review of research. International Journal of Early Years Education. doi: 10.1080/09669760.2019.1685467

• CohenMiller, A. S. & Demers, D. (2019) Conflicting roles of mother and academic?: Exploring the use of arts-based self-care activities to encourage wellbeing. Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, 4(2), 611-645. https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29391 - open access

• CohenMiller, A. S. & Miller, M. (2019) Resources for online teaching in the sciences: A multistage search and classification of open video repositories (OVR). College Teaching. doi: 10.1080/87567555.2019.1650704 - open access

• Miller, M. & CohenMiller, A. S. (2019). Open video repositories for college instruction: A guide to the social sciences. Online Learning. https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/article/view/1492/827 - open access

• CohenMiller, A. S. & Pate, E. (2019). A model for developing interdisciplinary research and theoretical frameworks. The Qualitative Report, 24(6). https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol24/iss6/2/ (Q1 as of March 2021) - open access

• ^CohenMiller, A. S., Sagitova, R. Ogay, S., Tselenko, Y., Shakhmanova, A., Saburova, A. (2019). What is a family-friendly campus? An exploratory study to develop student research and provide practical results. American Journal of Qualitative Research. http://www.ejecs.org/index.php/AJQR/article/view/170 - open access

• CohenMiller, A. S. (2018). Creating a participatory arts-based online focus group: Highlighting the transition from DocMama to Motherscholar. The Qualitative Report, 23(7), 1720-1735. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2018.2895 - open access

• Boivin, N., & CohenMiller, A. S. (2018). Breaking the “fourth wall” in qualitative research: Participant-led digital data construction. The Qualitative Report, 23(3), 581-592. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol23/iss3/6 - open access

• CohenMiller, A. S. (2018). Visual arts as a tool for phenomenology. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (FSQ), 19(1). http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2912/4180 ) - open access

• Spires, K. & CohenMiller, A. S. (2018). Accessibility in Central Asia: Collaboration between Graduate School and Library. IFLA Journal, 44(1), 35-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/0340035217751960

• ^Gimranova, A., Nurmanova, M. & CohenMiller, A. S. (2018). Texting and language learning: WhatsApp group chats and Near Peer Role Modeling (NPRM). LEARNing Landscapes: Special Issue: Teaching with Technology: Pedagogical Possibilities and Practicalities, 11(1), 121-135. http://www.learninglandscapes.ca/index.php/learnland/article/view/927 - open access

• CohenMiller, A. S., Faucher, C., Hernández-Torrano, D., & Brown Hajdukova, E. (2017). Practical steps for using interdisciplinary educational research to enhance cultural awareness. International Journal of Research & Method in Education. Special Issue: Adoption, Adaptation, and Integration: Renegotiating the Identity of Educational Research through Interdisciplinarity, 40(3), 288-298 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1743727X.2017.1310834

• CohenMiller, A. S. (2016). Artful research approaches in #amwritingwithbaby: Qualitative analysis of academic mothers on Facebook. LEARNING Landscapes, 9(2) Special Issue, Artful Inquiry: Transforming Understanding Through Creative Engagement, 9(2), 181-196. https://doi.org/10.36510/learnland.v9i2.770 - open access

• CohenMiller, A. S. (2013). Motherhood in academia: A grounded theory pilot study of online texts. Educational Research: Theory and Practice (formerly, The Researcher), 25 (1), 47-66. http://www.nrmera.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Researcherv25n1CohenMiller.pdf - open access

• CohenMiller, A. S. (2012). Interdisciplinary projects emerging naturally: Reflection from a doctoral student’s first American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) conference. Adult Learning, 23(4), 196-200. http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ981524

• CohenMiller, A. S. (2008). Stealth Language Teaching: A preschool foreign language pilot program. Practicing Anthropology, 30(1), 50-53.

REGIONAL JOURNALS

• CohenMiller, A. (2022). Innovating online research for equity, inclusion and social justice during the pandemic. NORAGG (Network for international policies and cooperation in education and training). Special Issue: States of Emergency: Education in the TIme of COVID-19.

• Shamatov, D. & CohenMiller, A. S. (2020). Webinars as effective tools for online learning: Session by Andy Hargreaves. Pedagogical Dialogue, 32(2), 49-55.

• ^Smat, N., Aikenova, A., Yelibay, M., Fillipova, L., Rakisheva, A., Kaveshev, Z., & CohenMiller, A. S. (2018). Thinking “Outside the Box” in Innovating Higher Education in the Age of Disruption: A Review of the Eurasian Higher Education Leaders Forum (EHELF) 2018. The Higher School of Kazakhstan. A publication of The Centre for Bologna Process and Academic Mobility.

• CohenMiller, A. S., Merrill, M., & Shamatov, D. (2018). Effective teaching strategies for higher education: A brief overview. Teacher professional development – basis of education system reform. Pedagogical Dialogue, 1(23), 38-52.

CHAPTERS

• (invited) CohenMiller, A., Saniyazova, A., & Rasmussen, K. (forthcoming). Selected instructional learning theories. In S. Wa-Mbaleka, et al. (Eds.). The SAGE Handbook of Higher Education Instructional Design.



• (invited) CohenMiller, A. (2024). The Story of being Square (in/out of academia): Applying feminist creative method and practice. In C. Hughes, M. Salazar Pérez, C. Taylor, & J. Ulmer (Eds.) Doing transdisciplinary feminist research: Re-working theory method and practice. Routledge. (link)

• (invited) ^Henkin, R., de Silva, A., CohenMiller, A., Alimzhanova, D. & Zhakupova, A. (2024). Cuentos: Uncovering global portraits of equity, justice and anti-racist teaching. In H. Smith & K. Iyengar (Eds.) Multilingual Language Arts for Multicultural Classrooms, Kendall Hunt Publishing. (link)

• (invited) CohenMiller, A. (2023). ​​Empowering qualitative social justice researchers and communities in multicultural contexts. In D. Court, R. Abbas, Z. Kamal, & R. Abu Much (Eds.) Social Justice in Multicultural Contexts. Cambridge Scholars Publishers. (link)

• (Invited) ^Khamitova, A. & CohenMiller, A. (2023). Designing online instructional materials. In Wa-Mbaleka, S. (Ed.) The SAGE Handbook of Online Education. Sage. (link)



• (Invited) Boivin, N. & CohenMiller, A. S. (2022). Inclusion and equity during COVID with multimodality. In D. Vyortkina, N. Collins, & T. Raegan (Eds.) Keep Calm, Teach On: Education Responding to COVID-19, IGI Global. (link)

• CohenMiller, A., & Leveto, J. (2022). Centering voices of motherscholars during the COVID-19 pandemic shows overwhelming responsibilities, ingrained gender roles, and blurred boundaries. In A. CohenMiller, T. Hinton-Smith, F. Mazanderani, & N. Samuel (Eds.) Leading Change in Gender and Diversity in Higher Education from Margins to Mainstream. Routledge. (link)

• Hinton-Smith, T., Mazanderani, F. CohenMiller, A., & Samuel, N. (2022). Co-creating cross-cultural approaches to gender mainstreaming: experiences and challenges in developing an interdisciplinary, international feminist knowledge-exchange research approach. In A. CohenMiller, T. Hinton-Smith, F. Mazanderani, & N. Samuel (Eds.). Leading Change in Gender and Diversity in Higher Education from Margins to Mainstream. Routledge. (link)

• (Invited) ^CohenMiller, A., Saban, G. A., & Bayeta, R. (2022). Rigor in qualitative research in the Asian context. In Wa-Mbaleka, S., Rosales, A, & Tolich, M. (Ch. 23). The SAGE Handbook for Qualitative Research in the Asian Context, (pp. 327-344). SAGE. (link)

• (Invited) ^CohenMiller, A., Sanygulova, A, Saniyazova, A., & Izekenova, Z. (2021). Gender equity in STEM in Higher Education: Kazakhstan. In H. K. Ro, F. Fernandez, & E. Ramon (Eds). Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Policy, Institutional Culture, and Individual Choice (pp. 140-157). New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Equity-in-STEM-in-Higher-Education-International-Perspectives-on/Ro-Fernandez-Ramon/p/book/9780367512934. Open access.

• ^Sandygulova, A., CohenMiller, A. S., Oralbayeva, N., Johal, W., Asselborn, T., Dillenbourg, P. (2020). Cognitive Learning with a Robot: The Case of Script Acquisition. Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2019 Collocated Workshops: CoSim-CPS, ASYDE, CIFMA, and FOCLASA, Oslo, Norway, September 16–20, 2019, Revised Selected Papers. 10.1007/978-3-030-57506-9_12

• (Invited) CohenMiller, A. & Lewis, J. (2019). Gender audit as research method for organizational learning and change in higher education. In V. Demos, M. Segal, & K. Kelly (Eds.) Gender and Practice: Insights from the Field (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 27), Emerald, pp. 39-55. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S1529-212620190000027003/full/html

• (Invited) *CohenMiller, A. S. (2019). Texting with students: Facilitating learning in higher education. In H. Schnackenberg & C. Johnson (Eds.) Preparing the Higher Education Space for Gen Z. IGI Global. 167-186. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7763-8.ch009

• Dentith, A., CohenMiller, A. S., Jackson, G., & Root, D. (2011). Developing globalized teacher education curriculum through interdisciplinarity. Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 13(1-2), 77-92. http://www.infoagepub.com/products/Curriculum-and-Teaching-Dialogue-Volume-13-1-and-2

CASE STUDIES VIDEOS & TEXTS

• (invited) CohenMiller, A. S. (2023). Addressing "failure" (and adaptation) in qualitative research. SAGE Research Methods online - SAGE Publications. https://methods.sagepub.com/video/addressing-failure-in-qualitative-research

• (invited) CohenMiller, A. S. (2023). Contemplative inquiry in qualitative research: Understanding critical self-reflection as inquiry and teaching and learning tool. SAGE Research Methods online. SAGE Publications. https://methods.sagepub.com/video/contemplative-inquiry-in-qualitative-research-critical-self-reflection

• (invited) CohenMiller, A. S. (2023). Enhancing quality and rigor in qualitative inquiry with critical self-reflection. SAGE Research Methods online. SAGE Publications. https://methods.sagepub.com/video/enhancing-quality-rigor-in-qualitative-inquiry-with-critical-self-reflection

• (invited) CohenMiller, A. S. (2023). Asynchronous practices of photovoice. SAGE Research Methods online. SAGE Publications. https://methods.sagepub.com/video/innovating-photovoice-as-asynchronous-online-arts-based-research

• (invited) CohenMiller, A. S. (2022). Critical self-reflection in arts-based qualitative research online (video). SAGE Research Methods. SAGE Publications. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529604627

• CohenMiller, A. & Lewis, J. (2022). Developing institutional and community awareness to the legitimacy and visibilityDOI gendered topics, research, and partnerships. In Kitchener, M. (Ed). Handbook for Creation of Gender Sensitive Teaching-Learning. Available from: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/ocsld/publications/. (funded by Horizon2020).

• Hinton-Smith, T., Aiyelaagbe, O. CohenMiller, A., Kahime, K., Samuel, N., Haeri Mazanderani, F., Rakisheva, A., Shurweryimana, F., Srinivasan, S., Uko, I. (2022). In Kitchener, M. (Ed). Gender on the Higher Education Learning Agenda Internationally: Co-Constructing Foundations for Equitable Futures. Handbook for the Promotion of Gender Sensitive Curriculum: Teaching and Learning Strategies. Available from: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/ocsld/publications/. (funded by Horizon2020).



• Lewis, J. & CohenMiller, A. (2022). Gender audit as pedagogical tool. In Kitchener, M. (Ed). Handbook for the Promotion of Gender Sensitive Curriculum: Teaching and Learning Strategies. Available from: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/ocsld/publications/. (funded by Horizon2020).

BIBLIOGRAPHIC / ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

(invited). CohenMiller, A. & Leveto, J. (2024). Motherscholars. Oxford Bibliographies (“peer-reviewed resource authored by top scholars”).

KEYNOTES & PLENARIES

• CohenMiller, A. (2025, expected). Qualitative research for the social, economic and environmental good (tentative title). 8th Annual Asian Qualitative Research Association Conference (AQRA). The Philippines.

• CohenMiller, A. (2024). Embracing the 4Cs in gender research: How to remove the illusion of perfection through Compassion, Community, Care, and Collaboration. International Conference on Contemporary Women’s Studies. 7-8 Mar. Turkey.

• CohenMiller, A. (2022, Nov 5). How to change the world? Learn about yourself. TEDxNazarbayevUniversity. Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan. https://www.ted.com/talks/anna_cohenmiller_want_to_help_the_world_learn_about_yourself

• CohenMiller, A. (2022, Oct. 24-25) How equity and inclusion can make us “better” gender researchers. 3rd Ed. Global Congress of Gender & Sexuality Studies. Dubai, UAE & online. https://genderstudycongress.com/speakers.php?id=3

• CohenMiller, A. (2022, June). Empowering qualitative social justice researchers and communities in multicultural contexts. International Social Justice in Multicultural Cultural Settings Conference. Arab Academic College, Haifa, Israel. https://sjms2022.arabcol.net/sjms2022arabcol/

• CohenMiller, A. (2022, March 1-3). Enhancing gender-based research with qualitative social justice research. 13th Women's Leadership and Empowerment Conference [WLEC2022]. https://www.wleconference.org

• CohenMiller, A. (2022, Jan 26-28). How equity and inclusion can make us “better” qualitative researchers. 6th World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR). https://wcqr.ludomedia.org

• CohenMiller, A. (2021, Oct). How can I become a “better” qualitative researcher? (The role of critical self-reflection in qualitative social justice research). 6th Annual Asian Qualitative Research Association Annual Conference (AQRA) - virtual.

• CohenMiller, A. (2021, Jul). Equity and inclusion in qualitative research. 20th Annual Thinking Qualitatively (TI) Virtual Conference. University of Alberta & University of British Columbia. https://tq-2021.ok.ubc.ca/prolgram/program-australia/

• CohenMiller, A. (2021, Apr). Designing and implementing inclusive research in educational contexts. 3rd Annual Conference on Teachers’ Practice. NIS Conference. Semey, Kazakhstan.

ARTS-BASED PROJECTS

• Community-based organization arts-based identity development (2023). Asocación Cultural Luna Andalusí, Alozaina (Malaga), Spain. Short-listed.

• Artist Residency in Motherhood studies, virtual. An online community of artist mothers incorporating research and practice. The work emphasizes the integration of motherhood and mothering with scholarship – “motherscholar” - visual representation and community sharing.

• Beyond Work/Life Balance: A Photovoice Study of Motherscholars in a Global Crisis (link, 2020-2021) was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic (from May-July 2020) with those who identify as mothers and academics (referred to as “motherscholars”). The study sought to understand first-hand what motherscholars were facing during those first few months of the pandemic, moving beyond experiences to identify structural issues and hidden obstacles faced. (with Izekenova, Z.)

• The Motherscholar Project (link) (2015-ongoing) is a visual advocacy representation of mothers in academia as self-identified. It highlights those who identify as mothers and scholars from around the globe taking an important step toward revealing an invisible and marginalized community in the academic pipeline.