President: Jeffrey T. Checkel, European University Institute
Vice-President: Nicholas Rush Smith, University of London
President-Elect: Marcus Kreuzer, Villanova University
Secretary/Treasurer: Regina Bateson, University of Colorado
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Officer: Robin L. Turner, Butler University
Annual Meeting Division Chair: Tasha Fairfield, European University Institute
Annual Meeting Division Chair: Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Section awards are presented during the APSA annual meeting awards ceremony. To learn more about any award listed, contact the award committee chair for the award.

All section 37. Qualitative and Multi-Method Research awards to-date »

The book, article, and conference paper awards all encompass two types of contributions: new research on methodology per se, i.e., studies that introduce specific methodological innovations or that synthesize and integrate methodological ideas in a way that is in itself a methodological contribution; and substantive work representing an exemplary application of qualitative methods.

Alexander L. George Article Award

This award honors Alexander George’s contributions to the comparative case-study method, including his work linking that method to a systematic concern with research design, and his contribution of developing the idea and the practice of process tracing. This award may be granted to a journal article or to a chapter in an edited volume that stands on its own as an article.  The George award will be given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented, i.e. for the 2027 award to materials published in 2026. In determining the date of an article publication, authors may choose either the date the article was first electronically published or the date of the formal journal citation (but not both).  In determining the date of a book chapter publication, the copyright date of the book will establish the relevant year. 

Deadline for nominations: January 31, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Fernando Rosenblatt (Chair)	University of Manchester	fernando.rosenblatt@manchester.ac.uk
Danielle Gilbert	Northwestern University	danielle.gilbert@northwestern.edu
Ioana Emy Matesan	Wesleyan University	imatesan@wesleyan.edu

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David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award

This award honors David Collier’s contributions – through his research, graduate teaching, and institution-building – as a founder of the qualitative and multi-method research movement in contemporary political science. The award is presented to a mid-career political scientist to recognize distinction in methodological publications, innovative application of qualitative and multi-method approaches in substantive research, and/or institutional contributions to this area of methodology. To be eligible for the mid-career award, nominees must have defended their dissertation within fifteen years of the beginning of the year in which the award is presented. For the 2027 award, for example, nominees must have defended their dissertation in or later than 2012. Each nomination must include a cover letter summarizing specific merits of the candidate (not merely generic praise), as well as an up-to-date curriculum vitae of the nominee, including the date of the doctoral degree. 

Deadline for nominations: January 31, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Amanda Robinson (Chair)	Ohio State University	robinson.1012@osu.edu
Ryan Saylor	University of Tulsa	ryan-saylor@utulsa.edu
Fiona Shen-Bayh	University of Maryland	shenbayh@umd.edu

Giovanni Sartori Book Award

This award honors Giovanni Sartori’s work on qualitative methods and concept formation, and especially his contribution to helping scholars think about problems of context as they refine concepts and apply them to new spatial and temporal settings. This award may be granted to a single-authored or multi-authored book, or to an edited volume. The Sartori award will be given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented, i.e. for the 2028 award to materials published in 2026.  The copyright date of the book will establish the relevant year. One copy of the nominated work should be sent to each of the three committee members. 

Deadline for nominations: January 31, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Laura Gamboa (Chair)	University of Notre Dame	lgamboa1@nd.edu
Melani Cammett	Harvard University	mcammett@gov.harvard.edu
Laurel Weldon	Simon Fraser University	laurel_weldon@sfu.ca

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Politics of Marginalization and Inclusion Award 

This award draws attention to and elevates research that focuses on the historic and ongoing impacts of discrimination and exclusion, and struggles for inclusion, in society. This award is for an outstanding qualitative or multi-method publication that explicitly engages with and contributes to knowledge of the politics of marginalization and inclusion. Deadline for nominations: January 31, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Natasha Behl (Chair)	Arizona State University	Natasha.Behl@asu.edu
Callan Hummel	University of British Columbia	calla.hummel@ubc.ca
Erin Lin	Ohio State University	lin.2675@osu.edu

Qualitative Evidence Award 

This award is dedicated to amplifying the innovative conceptualization, generation, and use of data. The qualitative evidence award recognizes the value in exploring new questions in novel ways and older questions with fresh eyes. It incentivizes creativity and ambition in data generation while underscoring the methodological aspect of QMMR and the intellectual significance of qualitative and multi-method research. Deadline for nominations: January 31, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Tariq Thachil (Chair)	University of Pennsylvania	thachil@sas.upenn.edu
Robert Mickey	University of Michigan	rmickey@umich.edu
Eun A Jo	College of William & Mary	ejo@wm.edu

Kendra Koivu Paper Award

This award honors the scholarly legacy and contributions of Kendra Koivu, who published important works on process tracing, case selection, and other qualitative fields, and who provided valuable service to the section. This award is given to a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Please note that to be eligible for consideration, the paper must be the version that was presented at the 2026 APSA annual meeting, not a subsequent iteration.  Deadline for nominations: January 31, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Candelaria Garay (Chair)	Cornell University	mcg99@cornell.edu
Shamira Gelbman	Wabash College	gelbmans@wabash.edu
Shelley Liu	Duke University	shelley.liu@duke.edu