Johnny Saldaña is Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University’s School of Film, Dance, and Theatre in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. He has produced 15 books and editions (with selected works translated into Korean, Turkish, and Chinese-Simplified); major titles include:
- Longitudinal Qualitative Research: Analyzing Change through Time (AltaMira Press, 2003)
- The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (5th ed., Sage Publishing, 2025)
- 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)
- Writing Qualitatively: The Selected Works of Johnny Saldaña (Routledge, 2018)
- Developing Theory Through Qualitative Inquiry (Sage Publishing, 2025)
- co-author with the late Miles and Huberman for Qualitative Data Analysis: A Methods Sourcebook (4th ed., Sage Publishing, 2020)
- co-author with Matt Omasta for Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life (2nd ed., Sage Publishing, 2022)
- editor of Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre (AltaMira Press, 2005)
- co-editor with Charles Vanover and Paul Mihas for Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Research: After the Interview (Sage Publishing, 2022)
Saldaña’s methods works have been cited and referenced in more than 40,000 research studies conducted in over 135 countries in disciplines such as education, medicine and health care, technology and social media, business and economics, government and social services, the fine arts, engineering, and the social sciences.
