Mirka Koro (Ph.D., University of Helsinki) is a Professor of qualitative research at the Mary Lou
Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University. Her scholarship operates in the intersection
of qualitative inquiry, methodologies, philosophy, experimentalism, and socio-cultural critique.
She has published in various qualitative, methodological, and educational journals. She is also
the author of Reconceptualizing qualitative research: Methodologies without methodology
(2016), Knowledge production in material spaces: Disturbing conferences and composing events
(2022) and co-editor of Disrupting data in qualitative inquiry: Entanglements with the Post-
Critical and Post-Anthropocentric (2017) and Intra-Public intellectualism: Critical qualitative
inquiry in the Academy (2021).
Dr. Koro has been serving in the advisory board of the STAR Scholars Network since Fall 2024.