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: Anastasia Shesterinina, University of York
Annual Meeting Division Chair: Michael Yekple, Bowdoin College

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 2026 award to materials published in 2025. 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, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Yuen Yuen Ang (Chair)	Johns Hopkins University	yuen.yuen.ang@jhu.edu
Sarah Parkinson	Johns Hopkins University	sparkinson@jhu.edu
John Boswell	University of Southampton	J.C.Boswell@soton.ac.uk

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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 2026 award, for example, nominees must have defended their dissertation in or later than 2011. 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, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Sara Niedzwiecki (Chair)	University of California, San Cruz	saranied@ucsc.edu
Yanilda González	Harvard University	yanilda_gonzalez@hks.harvard.edu
Roselyn Hsueh	Temple University	rhsueh@temple.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 2026 award to materials published in 2025.  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, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Janice Gallagher (Chair)	Rutgers University-Newark	janice.gallagher@rutgers.edu
Lauren Honig	Boston College	lauren.honig@bc.edu
Aditi Malik	College of the Holy Cross	amalik@holycross.edu

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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, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Brian Palmer-Rubin (Chair)	University of Southern California	brian.pr@usc.edu
Santiago Anria	Cornell University	sja89@cornell.edu
Chris Chambers-Ju	University of Texas at Arlington	christopher.chambersju@uta.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, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Nermin Allam (Chair)	Rutgers University-Newark	nermin.allam@rutgers.edu
Kacie Miura	University of San Diego	kaciemiura@sandiego.edu
Kai Thaler	University of California, Santa Barbara	thaler@ucsb.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 2025 APSA annual meeting, not a subsequent iteration.  Deadline for nominations: January 31, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Juan Bogliaccini (Chair)	Universidad Católica del Uruguay	juan.bogliaccini@ucu.edu.uy
Rodrigo Barrenechea	Universidad del Pacífico	r.barrenecheac@up.edu.pe
Benjamin García Holgado	University of Delaware	bgarciah@udel.edu