Rate My Professor Serge Hein

Serge Hein is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Virginia Tech, where he joined the faculty in 2004. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Alberta in 1996. Within the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Hein is a core member of the Educational Research and Evaluation Program, with his designated program area being Educational Research and Evaluation, Qualitative Methods. He serves as the Program Leader for the Educational Research and Evaluation Graduate Certificate, guiding admissions and program operations from his office at 1750 Kraft Drive, Room 2105, in Blacksburg, Virginia. As part of a nationally recognized faculty group, Hein's expertise contributes to graduate training in research methods across education and the social sciences.

Hein's research specializations encompass qualitative methodology, post-qualitative inquiry, and new materialist philosophy. His scholarly contributions include articles published in leading journals such as Qualitative Inquiry and Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. Key publications feature “Norman Denzin is the Hub” (2024), “Qualitative Inquiry, Ontology, and the Question of Being: ‘We Are Not Yet Thinking’” (2024), “Deleuze and Absolute Immanence: Achieving Fully Immanent Inquiry” (2020), “The New Materialism in Qualitative Inquiry: How Compatible are the Philosophies of Barad and Deleuze?” (2016), and “Thinking and Writing With Ontological Time in Qualitative Inquiry” (2013). Earlier works address topics like student experiences in qualitative methods courses and learning strategies among university students. Hein has collaborated on interdisciplinary projects, including serving as Co-Principal Investigator for an Institute for Society, Culture and Environment grant-funded study titled “Increasing the Participation of Women in Engineering: An Examination of Gender Stereotypes, Self-Beliefs, Choice of Major, Academic Achievement, and Program Withdrawal” (2008), employing mixed-methods approaches. He has also co-authored psychometric research, such as “Estimating an Observed Score Distribution from a Cognitive Diagnostic Model” with Gary Skaggs and Jesse Wilkins. Through these efforts, Hein advances methodological innovations in educational research.