Jaber F. Gubrium

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Jaber Gubrium

Field	Sociology
Institutions	University of Missouri University of Florida

Jaber (Jay) F.Gubrium was appointed Chair of the University of Missouri Department of sociology in 2002. He previously has taught at Marquette University and the University of Florida, was a Fulbright scholar at Tampere University, Finland, in 1996, and has been a visiting professor at Tampere, at Lund University in Sweden, and at the Universities of Copenhagen and Odense in Denmark. His areas of specialization are aging and the life course, social interaction, identity, qualitative methods, and narrative analysis. He is the author of a dozen books, including Out of Control, Speaking of Life, New Language of Qualitative Method, and The Self We Live By. He is also the editor of the Journal of Aging Studies.

Along with James A. Holstein, Gubrium is credited with introducing the concept of "The Active Interview" to the social science community (Holstein and Gubrium, 1995).