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Volume Editor: Madelyn Iris

General Editors: Tim Wallace and Alayne Unterberger

Madelyn Iris, Ph.D., completed her dissertation in
anthropology at Northwestern University and quickly became engaged
in the newly emerging field of ethnographic evaluation. For several
years she served as a research associate at the Erikson Institute
for Advanced Studies in Child Development, where she conducted
qualitative program evaluation research. During this time she
became interested in the problems of the frail elderly and shifted
her focus to gerontology and the study of protective services. She
joined the Buehler Center on Aging at Northwestern University as
the assistant director for education. She was appointed Interim
director of the center and was named the director of behavioral and
social science research. Dr. Iris was an early participant in the
Northwestern University Ethnographic School, was appointed
Associate Director and was named director. She is an associate
professor in the Department of Medicine, the Feinberg School of
Medicine, Northwestern University.Hermajor areas of focus now
include social program research and evaluation, qualitative methods
and the study of decision making and chronic illness, and Native
American models of aging. She is a sustaining fellow of the Society
for Applied Anthropology and a fellow of the Gerontological Society
of America, and was the founding chair of the NAPA Mentor Program.
Dr. Iris was elected president-elect of the National Association
for the Practice of Anthropology.

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