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Nick Cheesman
nick.cheesman at anu.edu.au
Thu Jan 16 18:44:26 AEDT 2025
Dear IMCers
Forwarding this announcement calling for book nominations for two awards offered by the Interpretive Methodologies and Methods group, American Political Science Association, and the student paper award.
I encourage anyone with an eligible book or paper to consider submitting it for these awards
Best wishes
Nick
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: at 11:37 am, January 15, 2025
Dear Colleagues,
The Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Related Group is pleased to announce its 2025 call for awards nominations. Details on the available awards, which recognize books, articles, and conference papers, are below and also available on the IMM website: https://www.interpretivemethods.com/summary-of-awards<https://u5593304.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.A5Aute7gWM5Gzy2h-2F9w84F8zkJ9A4cC-2BiXnTU5L7DhcSjV8aylHb7z1b2Vq61Iv3TyQkaNJyxwN-2FkMpfVUTetQ-3D-3DpaJ2_mP5T06tES9hoX6nxxz-2BgIbD-2BP99RlBHQCoxIhhn33TD2nD-2B4Xy1FpgDbqKg3ugJg1SJ7-2B92pzjVU52yO2MNc2CDJk2VWY3TUfsByOduzBG3ioWDlxPadExI03BqOoROThX5AFXuxnhKmX4bEp9M8Z4zkEyNnujyg06S-2Be8WFoNNTUwq7Lgs0p25NvUM4jI4z8JdMDjadguKkXk3bmGmNAA-3D-3D>
-Nick
The 2025 Charles Taylor Book Award
The Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Related Group of the American Political Science Association invites nominations for the Charles Taylor Book Award, which it gives annually to recognize the best book in political science that employs or develops interpretive methodologies and methods.
This Award commemorates Charles Taylor’s contributions to interpretive thought in the political and social sciences. In “Interpretation and the Sciences of Man” (1971), Taylor critiqued aspirations to model the study of politics on the natural sciences, and explained how “interpretation is essential to explanation” in the human sciences. This essay, along with Taylor’s Philosophical Papers, and many other articles, book chapters, and volumes, have inspired scholars employing and developing interpretive methodologies and methods in the study of politics.
The Award will go to a book exploring any aspect of political life that addresses problems and topics in interpretive methodologies, or reports the results of empirical research using interpretive methods. Thus, the book might engage with the philosophy of interpretive political and social science, reflect upon methodological issues arising from interpretive research, and/or take the form of an empirical study that pursues interpretive research.
Selection Criteria:
Eligible books will distinguish themselves as contributions to interpretivist thought in one or more of the following ways. First, they will treat knowledge, including scientific knowledge, as historically situated and enmeshed in relationships of power. Second, they will approach the world as socially made, so that the categories, presuppositions, and classifications that refer to particular phenomena are understood to be manufactured rather than natural. Third and relatedly, they will eschew the individualist orientation that characterizes rational choice and behavioralist research, instead addressing how ideas, beliefs, values, and preferences are always embedded in a social world, which is constituted through humans’ linguistic, affective, institutional, and practical relations with others.
Nominations are welcome from anyone. Authors may nominate their own work, as may readers and publishers. The nominated work may be either a single- or multi-authored book or an edited volume. To be eligible, books must have been published during the two-calendar-year period prior to the year of the APSA meeting, as determined by the printed book’s copyright date. To be eligible for the 2025 Charles Taylor Award, the nominated book must bear a copyright date of either 2023 or 2024. A book that was nominated for the 2024 Charles Taylor Award cannot be nominated again for the 2025 Award. The award committee is under no obligation to make an award if submissions do not merit such recognition.
The Group will announce and present the Award at the annual APSA conference during its business meeting or reception.
Selection Process:
To be considered for the 2025 award, please do the following:
1. Mail one copy of the nominated book to each member of the award committee (listed below) so as to be received by March 30, 2025.
2. Email the committee chair Osman Balkan, obalkan at wharton.upenn.edu<mailto:obalkan at wharton.upenn.edu>, notifying the committee of the nomination.
Members of the award committee for 2025 are:
Osman Balkan (chair), Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business, University of Pennsylvania
Mail to: 3732 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Becky Ploof, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University
Mail to: Wanningstraat 14C, 1071LB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jessica Soedirgo, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam – Roeterseiland
Mail to: Postbus 15578, 1001 NB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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The 2025 Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow Best Article Award
The Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow Best Article Award honors the sustained contributions of Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow to the advancement of interpretive methodologies and methods in political science. The article is given annually, at the discretion of the executive committee, to recognize a peer-reviewed article published in political science and politics-oriented interdisciplinary journals. The award was created in 2024, and the first awardees will be named at the 2025 American Political Science Association business meeting.
Nomination Criteria
Nominations are welcome from anyone. Authors may nominate their own work, as may readers, journals, and publishers. The award is presented annually for a peer-reviewed article published in political science and politics-oriented interdisciplinary journals.
To be eligible, the publication must have been published during the calendar-year period prior to the year of the APSA meeting, as determined by the publication’s date. To be eligible for the 2025 Schwartz-Shea and Yanow Article Award, the nominated publication must bear a copyright date of either 2024. The award committee is under no obligation to make an award if submissions do not merit such recognition.
The IMM Related Group will announce and present the Award at the annual APSA conference during its business meeting or reception.
Selection Process:
To be considered for the 2025 award, please do the following:
1. Email one copy of the nominated publication to each member of the award committee (listed below) so as to be received by March 30, 2025.
Members of the award committee for 2025 are:
Sarah El-Kazzaz (Chair), Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS – University of London, se22 at soas.ac.uk<mailto:se22 at soas.ac.uk>
Martha Balaguera Cuervo, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto – Mississauga, m.balaguera at utoronto.ca<mailto:m.balaguera at utoronto.ca>
Egor Lazarev, Department of Political Science, Yale University, egor.lazarev at yale.edu<mailto:egor.lazarev at yale.edu>
The 2025 Lee Ann Fujii Book Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political Violence
The IMM Group gives the Lee Ann Fujii Award every other year to recognize published works that most innovatively study political violence from an interpretive perspective, memorializing Dr. Fujii’s approach to political research and her overall contributions to interpretive research methods. In keeping with her own efforts both to expose more hidden and systemic types of harm (racial and gender discrimination, in particular) and to understand what drives people to kill, the nominated work may take any type of political violence, broadly construed, as its concern. The award recognizes works that not only report on findings, but which engage the methodological entailments and/or methods challenges of studies of political violence. Consideration will be given to interviewing, as in Dr. Fujii’s research, but also to other methods.
Nomination Criteria
Nominations are welcome from anyone. Authors may nominate their own work, as may readers and publishers.
The award is presented biannually for a book published in the two years preceding the award date. To be eligible, books must have been published during the two-calendar-year period prior to the year of the APSA meeting, as determined by the printed book’s copyright date. To be eligible for the 2025 Fujii Book Award, the nominated book must bear a copyright date of either 2023 or 2024. The award committee is under no obligation to make an award if submissions do not merit such recognition.
The Group will announce and present the Award at the annual APSA conference during its business meeting or reception.
Selection Process:
To be considered for the 2025 award, please do the following:
1. Mail one copy of the nominated book to each member of the award committee (listed below) so as to be received by March 30, 2025.
2. Email the committee chair Sarah Parkinson at sparkinson at jhu.edu<mailto:sparkinson at jhu.edu>, notifying the committee of the nomination.
Members of the award committee for 2025 are:
Sarah Parkinson (chair), Department of Political Science and School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Mail to: Sarah Parkinson, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 6<sup>th</sup> floor, Washington, DC 20001
Jana Krause, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
Mail to: Jana Krause, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
Eilert Sundts hus, 7th floor, Moltke Moes vei 31, 0851 Oslo, Norway
Stephanie Schwartz, Department of International Relations, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Mail to: Stephanie Schwartz, Department of International Relations, The London School of Economics and Political Science, IR Dept., 10th Floor Centre Building, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, UK
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The 2025 Lee Ann Fujii Article Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political Violence
The IMM Group gives the Lee Ann Fujii Award every other year to recognize published works that most innovatively study political violence from an interpretive perspective, memorializing Dr. Fujii’s approach to political research and her overall contributions to interpretive research methods. In keeping with her own efforts both to expose more hidden and systemic types of harm (racial and gender discrimination, in particular) and to understand what drives people to kill, the nominated work may take any type of political violence, broadly construed, as its concern. The award recognizes works that not only report on findings, but which engage the methodological entailments and/or methods challenges of studies of political violence, broadly construed. Consideration will be given to interviewing, as in Dr. Fujii’s research, but also to other methods.
Nomination Criteria
Nominations are welcome from anyone. Authors may nominate their own work, as may readers, journals, and publishers.
The award is presented biannually for a journal article or chapter-length publication. In addition to considering chapters from edited books, eligibility will also extend to chapters from monographs that do not focus on political violence as a whole, but which include an outstanding and innovative methodological chapter (including, e.g., methodological appendices) that could lend itself to the study of violence.
To be eligible, the publication must have been published during the two-calendar-year period prior to the year of the APSA meeting, as determined by the publication’s date. To be eligible for the 2025 Fujii Article Award, the nominated publication must bear a copyright date of either 2023 or 2024. The award committee is under no obligation to make an award if submissions do not merit such recognition.
The IMM Related Group will announce and present the Award at the annual APSA conference during its business meeting or reception.
Selection Process:
To be considered for the 2025 award, please do the following:
1. Email one copy of the nominated publication to each member of the award committee (listed below) so as to be received by March 30, 2025.
Members of the award committee for 2025 are:
Ed Schatz (Chair), Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, ed.schatz at utoronto.ca<mailto:ed.schatz at utoronto.ca>
Lama Mourad, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), Carleton University, lama.mourad at carleton.ca<mailto:lama.mourad at carleton.ca>
Nicholas Barnes, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, njb22 at st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:njb22 at st-andrews.ac.uk>
The 2025 Hayward R. Alker Best Student Paper Award
The annual Hayward R. Alker award recognizes the student conference paper that best employs or analyzes interpretive methodologies and methods for the study of politics. This award is named to honor the memory of Hayward R. Alker, former President of the International Studies Association and John A. McCone Chair in International Security at the School of International Relations, University of Southern California. Alker passed away on August 24, 2007. From his humanistic critique of mainstream political science, to the role he played in the development and promotion of interdisciplinary, historically grounded, linguistically and hermeneutically-informed approaches to political science, Hayward Alker was a tireless champion of interpretive methodologies. His commitment to nurturing and encouraging graduate students and young scholars makes this award a doubly appropriate way to honor his contributions.
Selection Criteria:
Papers must come from PhD students in political science, and must have been presented at a political science association conference (e.g. American Political Science Association, Western Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, other regional or state meetings, as well as other associations such as European Consortium for Political Research, International Political Science Association, or International Studies Association and its regional meetings) in the academic year preceding the award. Authors must be enrolled as PhD students at the time of the paper’s conference presentation.
The award is given to papers presented during the academic year preceding the year of the submission deadline. The 2025 Alker Award will be given to conference papers presented between September 15, 2023, and September 14, 2024. Nominated papers should be identical to the version presented at the conference; subsequent revisions are not eligible.
Reflecting Hayward Alker’s eclectic approach to political studies, the award will be given to a paper studying any aspect of political life that either (1) engages interpretive methodological issues or (2) reports the results of empirical research conducted using interpretive research methods. Interpretivism may be understood as an approach to research that explicitly foregrounds and embraces the interpretive processes inherent to all inquiry and data analysis. Interpretive epistemologies attend to the ways individuals and collectives form ideas, arguments, or worldviews, seeking to understand how actors and researchers make sense of their social and political world, and how these modes of being and knowing impact behaviors, political outcomes, and the production of knowledge. In explaining how things—ideas, events, actors, bodies, institutions, laws, movements, physical artifacts—are made meaningful in specific research settings, interpretive scholars are acutely interested in the historical, individual, and social contingencies that constitute any given fact, data set, or theoretical frame. Thus, rather than assume categories or subjects exist empirically in a static form, interpretivists seek out context-specific meanings and prioritize lived experiences.
For more background on interpretive methodologies and methods, please visit our website:
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Submission Process:
Authors may self-nominate. We also encourage chairs of panels as well as discussants to nominate outstanding papers from their conference sessions.
One copy of the nominated paper should be emailed as a pdf or Word file to the members of the award committee, along with a short statement (no longer than one paragraph) stating how the nominated paper speaks to interpretive methodologies and/or methods. Please include the date and name of the conference where the paper was presented.
Submission Deadline: March 30, 2025
To be considered for APSA 2025 award, nominated papers must be received no later than March 30, 2025.
Members of the award committee for 2025 are:
Jasmine English (Chair), Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University, jasenglish at stanford.edu<mailto:jasenglish at stanford.edu>
Ronay Bakan, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, rbakan1 at jhu.edu<mailto:rbakan1 at jhu.edu>
Lauren Baker, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, lmariebaker at u.northwestern.edu<mailto:lmariebaker at u.northwestern.edu>
The award will be announced and presented at the 2025 American Political Science Association conference during the business meeting or reception of the Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Related Group. The award committee is under no obligation to make an award for a year in which submissions do not merit such recognition.
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