Awards

The IMM offers four awards:

The Lee Ann Fujii Award for Innovation in the Interpretive Study of Political Violence

This award honors Lee Ann Fujii’s creative contributions to the study of political violence, including methods for doing such research. The award, funded by Routledge/Taylor & Francis, is given every other year to books, journal articles or book chapters, in recognition of the late Professor Fujii’s contributions to that area of inquiry.

The 2023 Lee Ann Fujii Award was awarded to Sarah E. Parkinson (Johns Hopkins University) for Beyond the Lines: Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon (Cornell UP, 2023). Honorable mention in 2023 was extended to Farah Godrej (University of California, Riverside) for Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State (Oxford UP, 2022).

For complete details regarding the award including past winners, please visit The Lee Ann Fujii Award Page.


The Charles Taylor Book Award

The Charles Taylor Book Award recognizes the best book in political science that employs or develops interpretive methodologies and methods.  This award is named in recognition of the contributions of Charles Taylor to the advancement of interpretive thinking in the political and social sciences.

The 2023 Charles Taylor Book Award for the best book in political science that employs or develops interpretive methodologies and methods has been awarded by the selection committee of Anastasia Shesterinina (chair), Mona El-Ghobashy and Ido Oren to Farah Godrej for Freedom Inside? Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State (Oxford UP, 2022). The committee has also singled out José Ciro Martínez’s States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan (Stanford UP, 2022) for an honorable mention. Congratulations to the authors!

The Group is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Charles Taylor Book Award. For complete details regarding the award, including past winners, and how to nominate please visit the Charles Taylor Book Award Page


The 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. 

The 2023 Hayward R. Alker Best Student Paper Award was awarded to Be Stone, “The Gendered Meanings and Uses of Collective ‘Addictions’ in U.S. Public Policy: A Case Study of the ‘Welfare Addict’.”

The Group is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Hayward R. Alker Best Student Paper Award. For complete details regarding the award, including past winners, please visit the Alker Best Student Paper Award Page.

The Grain of Sand Award

The Grain of Sand Award honors a political scientist whose contributions to interpretive studies of the political, and, indeed, to the discipline itself, its ideas, and its persons, have been longstanding and merit special recognition. Echoing Wislawa Szymborska’s “We call it a grain of sand,” the award underscores the centrality of meaning making in both the constitution and study of the political; drawing on William Blake’s “To see a world in a grain of sand,” the award honors the capacity of interpretive scholarship to embody and inspire imaginative theorizing, the intentional cultivation of new lines of sight through an expansion of literary and experiential resources, and the nourishing of a playfulness of mind so necessary to the vitality of social science.

The 2023 Grain of Sand Award has been awarded to Timothy Mitchell, the William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University.As a trail blazer in the fields of political science and postcolonial theory, Mitchell’s widely cited research has explored the place of colonialism in the making of modernity, the material and technical politics of the Middle East, and the role of economics and other forms of expert knowledge in the management and disciplining of collective life. Please see the full citation here.

For complete details regarding the award, including all past winners, please visit The Grain of Sand Award Page.

 

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