Johnny Saldaña
Writer, Creative Drama, Research, Drama, Educator, Facilitor, University Professor
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AATE, ASU
Arizona
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Johnny Saldaña is Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University’s (ASU) School of Film, Dance, and Theatre (now the School of Music, Dance, and Theatre) in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, where he taught from 1981 to 2014. He received his BFA in Drama and English Education in 1976, and MFA in Drama Education in 1979 from the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Saldaña is the author of "Drama of Color: Improvisation with Multiethnic Folklore" (Heinemann, 1995), a teacher's resource text and recipient of the 1996 Distinguished Book Award from the American Alliance for Theatre & Education (AATE).
He has also written many books and articles including:
Longitudinal Qualitative Research: Analyzing Change through Time (AltaMira Press, 2003)
The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (5th ed., Sage Publishing, 2025; previous editions translated into Korean, Turkish, and Chinese-Simplified)
Fundamentals of Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage (Left Coast Press, 2011)
Thinking Qualitatively: Methods of Mind (Sage Publishing, 2015)
Developing Theory Through Qualitative Inquiry (Sage Publishing, 2025), among others.
Saldaña’s methods works have been cited and referenced in more than 50,000 research studies conducted in over 135 countries, in disciplines such as K-12 and higher education, medicine and health care, technology and social media, business and economics, government and social services, the fine arts, the social sciences, human development, and communication. (Bio from https://search.asu.edu/profile/15790)
