(b. 1948, Chicago, Illinois). Ph.D. Inquiry Methodology, Indiana University, Bloomington; B.A. English Literature, Valparaiso University.

Schwandt is Professor of Education in the Division of Quantitative and Evaluative Research Methodologies of the Department of Educational Psychology and affiliated faculty in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Previously he held faculty positions in the Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, and the School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington; served as part-time Research Professor at the National Center for Comprehensive Rehabilitation Research and Development, Bodø, Norway, and visiting faculty at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has lectured and taught extensively throughout Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

His primary contributions to the field of evaluation center on exploring the relevance of ...