Tanya Stivers is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. She uses CA to identify explore everyday conversations as well as clinical communication. Her research interests include how people reach decisions, whether that involves children deciding on a project to pursue together or physicians and patients deciding on a diagnosis or treatment. Methodologically, she has combined CA with quantitative methods to explore differences in interactional practice by race, language, and culture. She is the author of Prescribing Under Pressure (Oxford, 2007), The Book of Answers (Oxford, 2022), and is co-editor of the Handbook of Conversation Analysis (Wiley, 2012 with Jack Sidnell).