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Sharan B. Merriam is professor of adult education at the University of Georgia. Her focus has been researching and writing about adult learning and the foundations of adult education. She has won the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education for three of her books. In 1998 she was a senior Fulbright scholartoMalaysia.[1][2]
Presently on the faculty in Adult Education at the University of GeorgiainAthens, where her responsibilities include teaching graduate courses in adult education and qualitative research methods, and supervising graduate student research. Her doctorate is in adult education from Rutgers University. Prior to her move to Georgia, she served on the faculties of Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech. Merriam served as author, co-author, or editor of 25 books and was co-editor of the Adult Education Quarterly for five years.[3]
Merriam is especially known for her work on qualitative case studies in educational research.[4]
Along with numerous teaching and research awards, Merriam has been a Fulbright ScholartoMalaysia and a visiting scholar to Soongsil University, South Korea and won the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature for three different books.[5]
Visiting Scholar, Department of Lifelong Education, Soongsil University, Seoul, South Korea (March to June, 2006)
Elected to the Board of Directors, Capella University, Minneapolis, Minn(3-year term of service) 2004
Inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. 2003
Recipient of the Career Achievement Award from the Commission of Professors of Adult Education (awarded once every three years). 2002
Recipient of the Houle World Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education for the book, Learning in Adulthood, at AAACE. 2000
Selected for the Inaugural Class of The University of Georgia Teaching Academy. 2000
Fulbright Lectureship and Research Award to University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia (June to December, 1998)1998
Recipient of the Houle World Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education for the book The Profession and Practice of Adult Education: An Introduction, at AAACE.1997
Selected as a Senior Teaching Fellow, Office of Instructional Development, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.1997
Selected as one of two delegates from the commission of Professors of Adult Education (CPAE) to participate in the Fifth International UNESCO Conference on Adult Education, Hamburg, Germany.1997 Summer Outreach Award to support collaboration with Universiti Pertanian Malaysia. 1997
Meritorious Service Award, American Association of Adult and Continuing Education, for service to the field as co-editor of Adult Education Quarterly.1993
Georgia Adult Education Association’s Literary Award for Lifelines: Patterns of Work, Love and Learning in Adulthood.1993
Selected as an Advisor/Mentor for the National Extension Leadership Development (NELD) program, University of Wisconsin–Madison and Kellogg Foundation.1992/1993
Selected to be a research fellow with the Project for the Study of Adult Learning (PSAL), a National University Continuing Education Association sponsored project.1991/1992
Editor, with Ronald M. Cervero, of the book series, Professional Practices in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, Krieger Publishing Company. (currently)
Editor, with Ronald M. Cervero of Adult Education Quarterly, the major journal of research and theory in Adult Education. Editorship involved organizing and administering a 50-member review board, managing a blind review process, corresponding with authors, editing accepted manuscripts and overseeing desktop publishing of the journal. Journal is published four times a year. 1989-1993
Editor, with Phyllis Cunningham, of the Handbook of Adult Education. This service to the Association of Adult and Continuing Education involved conceptualizing the project, securing authors for 48 chapters, editing the chapters, working with the Association over format, content and budget.
Consulting Editor for Adult Education Quarterly, Adult Literacy and Basic Education, The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, The Gerontologist, International Journal of Aging and Human Development, International Journal of Lifelong Education, New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning, and Qualitative Studies in Education.
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