About Me
Janice Morse is the The Ida May "Dotty" Barnes, RN, & D. Keith Barnes, MD, Presidential Endowed Chair , College Of Nursing, University of Utah. She holds PhDs in both nursing and anthropology and uses anthropological research methods to explore the illness experience, suffering and the attainment of comfort. Dr. Morse is an authority in qualitative research methods, serves as founding editor for the journal Qualitative Health Research. She has published more than 300 articles and 14 books, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, American Anthropological Association, and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Her contributions to nursing and health research have been acknowledged: she is the 5th Episteme Laureate (the bi-annual research award, Sigma Theta Tau International) and has been awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of Newcastle, Australia.