ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the use of participatory visual methodologies (PVM) in life history research as an opportunity to share power with participants—narrators—throughout the research process. Within this chapter, the author shares the story of a journey carrying out a life history project with one retired university administrator. The author explains how she engaged PVM as a means for collaboration with her participant to retell the stories that led to the fruition of a diversity initiative that was 20 years in the making at a predominantly White institution. Through the process of using PVM and sharing a multimodal text created using an interactive and panoramic media site helpful for illustrating a timeline, the author was able to animate a physical timeline of diversity initiatives that unfolded at one university through the perspective of the administrator’s life over the course of three interviews. This chapter ends with implications for methodological and pedagogical practice in the contemporary era of qualitative research, particularly related to PVM.
