Doug Maynard is engaged in research and teaching in the sociological traditions of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis at the University of Wisconsin. Currently he is the Department of Sociology chair.

Prof. Maynard addresses topics ranging from ordinary conversational practices to interaction in the survey interview to relationships between doctors and patients to disability. He co-edited a book on Communication in Medical Care with John Heritage (2006). A monograph was published in 2003 on Bad News, Good News as those kinds of tidings are delivered and received in a variety of ordinary and more specialized settings, especially clinical ones. Another long-time project has involved collaborative research on the survey interview and a co-edited volume (2002) on Standardization and Tacit Knowledge. Recently, this research involves the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, and two studies. One is on aspects of cognitive testing, and the other is a project funded by the National Science Foundation on the relative effects of interviewer skill and respondent propensity on decisions for survey participation.

Here is a list of publications including books as well as selected and downloadable journal articles.

Doug Maynard teaches courses on language and social interaction (conversation analysis) and ethnomethodology as well as social psychology, and has broad interests in theory, methodology, and science and technology studies.