Paul Mihas is the Assistant Director of Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a senior qualitative analysis consultant at ResearchTalk Inc. Since 2013, he has taught for the Global School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM), including five-day courses at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has also served as faculty at the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research (2015-2019). He has taught courses on coding and analytic memo writing at the annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive, presented jointly by ResearchTalk and the Odum Institute, and has served as a mentor at ResearchTalk’s annual Qualitative Data Analysis Camp. Recent publications include chapters on qualitative data analysis in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods in Education (2019) and Research Design and Methods: An Applied Guide for the Scholar-Practitioner (2019). Other publications include methods chapters in the International Encyclopedia of Education (4th ed. 2023) and Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis: Creative Engagements with Qualitative Data (2022). He has contributed 10 methods articles to the online SAGE Research Methods Datasets (2019) on topics ranging from phenomenology to developing a codebook. He is the former managing editor of Social Forces, a journal of sociology published at the University of North Carolina Press.