[IMCnetwork] FW: IMM Events @APSA, 2026 Award Winners, and Executive Committee Updates

Tue Aug 11 09:43:52 AEST 2026

Dear IMCers,

In case anyone is planning on attending American APSA in Boston, below are some activities organised by the IMM.

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April

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Date: Tuesday, 11 August 2026 at 4:06 am
To: April Biccum <april.biccum at anu.edu.au>
Subject: IMM Events @APSA, 2026 Award Winners, and Executive Committee Updates

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Dear Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Members,

We hope you’re all very well! With one month before APSA, we are writing with a few important updates for the group.

1.    For those attending APSA 2026 in Boston, it would be great to see you at our business meeting which will take place on Friday, September 4, 6:30-7:30pm. The location remains TBA, so please plan to join and keep eye out for that information.

2.    The IMM has an exciting and expansive line-up of events at APSA this year! Please join us, and remember that robust attendance enables us to request additional slots for interpretive programming. We would love to see you at any and all of the following. For complete details, please consult the APSA online program<https://us.list-manage.com/mWiwZy4clig?e=0495274731&c2id=72aae054ebaa9fa145c078d08cf357fa>.

1. Pre-APSA Short Course: “Studying Cool Stuff Seriously,” a workshop and panel for scholars working with art, pop culture, and other cultural texts and practices. Wednesday, September 2, 1:30 to 5:30pm, Location TBA.

2. Panel 1. “Advancing Interpretive Methods,” Sunday, September 6, 8:00 to 9:30am, Location TBA.

3. Panel 2. “Theory, Interpretation, and Praxis,” Sunday, September 6, 10:00 to 11:30am, Location TBA.

4. Roundtable. “Teaching and Cultivating Interpretive Methods in Political Science,” Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) Workshop Event. Saturday, September 5, 8:15 to 9:30am, Location TBA.

5. Methods Café 2026, Friday, September 4, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Location TBA. Chaired by Be Stone (Rhodes College) and Robin L. Turner (Butler University), the Methods Café this year will feature 26 expert speakers.

3.    We are excited to welcome three new members who will be joining the executive committee after the annual meeting.  We warmly welcome April Biccum, from Australia National University, Robin A. Harper, from York College & CUNY Graduate Center, and Denise Walsh, from the University of Virginia. We remain deeply grateful to Nicholas Rush Smith, Jillian Schwedler, and Erica S. Simmons for their service to the community as they rotate off the EC.

4.    Finally, congratulations to our section’s award winners, who’ve produced fantastic research and whose collective efforts enrich interpretive political science! Please read their award-winning work and come to celebrate them in person at the business meeting. We also extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who served on award committees this past year.

Award: Charles Taylor Book Award

· Co-Winner: Lisa Björkman, Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025)

· Co-Winner: Alexis M. Lerner, Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025)

· Honorable Mention: Lisa Vanhala, Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025)

· Committee: Carolyn Holmes (Chair), University of Tennessee – Knoxville; Joanna Wuest, Stony Brook University; Rebecca Tapscott, University of Glasgow

Award: Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow Best Article Award

·       Winner: Biko Koenig and Tali Mendelberg, “The Symbolic Politics of Status in the MAGA Movement,” Perspectives on Politics 24, no. 1 (2026): 238–255.

·       Honorable Mention: Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith, “How Cases Speak to One Another: Using Translation to Rethink Generalization in Political Science Research,” American Political Science Review 120, no. 1 (2026): 110–122.

·       Committee: Reo Matsuzaki (Chair), Trinity College; Tamir Moustafa, Simon Fraser University; Johanna Söderström, Uppsala University

Award: Hayward R. Alker Best Student Paper Award

· Winner: Maxine Both, “Border Encounters: Mapping Socio-Spatial Identity in Immigration Detention in Canada and Italy”

· Honorable Mention: Zuzanna Samson, “The (border)zones of death: Tracing the Socio-Political Afterlife of Migrants on the Eastern EU Land Borders”

· Committee: Antonia Jülich (Chair), Harvard University; Devon Cantwell-Chavez, University of Copenhagen; Jose Perez, Texas A&M University – San Antonio

Grain of Sand Award: Not awarded in 2026.

Warmly,

IMM Executive Committee

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