IQMR 2026 Research Design Discussion Schedule

Research design discussions take place Monday through Thursday of both weeks. See the detailed schedule on Zotero (login required) for participants and paper titles.

Week 1

Monday, June 15

• RD-P-Session 1: Case Studies and Case Comparison I — Mahoney (Eggers 341)
• RD-P-Session 2: Case Studies and Case Comparison II — Waldner (Eggers 113)
• RD-P-Session 3: Grounded Theory — Michener (Eggers 306)
• RD-P-Session 4: Archival Research — Wedeen (Eggers 352)
• RD-P-Session 5: Discourse Analysis — Blajer de la Garza (Eggers 100A)

Tuesday, June 16

• RD-F-Session 6: QCA — Mahoney (Eggers 100A)
• RD-F-Session 7: LNQA and Democracy — Goertz (Eggers 341)
• RD-F-Session 8: Work and the Workforce — Waldner (Eggers 306)
• RD-F-Session 9: Insecurity, Military, and Divisions in the Americas — Michener (Eggers 113)
• RD-F-Session 10: CHA and Finance — Wedeen (Eggers 352)
• RD-F-Session 11: Content and Discourse Analysis — Blajer de la Garza (Eggers 018)

Wednesday, June 17

• RD-F-Session 12: IR and Security — Goertz (Eggers 100A)
• RD-P-Session 13: Comparative Historical Analysis — Kreuzer (Eggers 341)
• RD-P-Session 14: Interviews and Refugee/Migration/Immigration — Simmons (Eggers 113)
• RD-F-Session 15: State Capacity — Rush Smith (Eggers 352)

Thursday, June 18

• RD-P-Session 16: Interviews in Environmental Studies — Kapiszewski (Eggers 113)
• RD-F-Session 17: CHA and the State — Kreuzer (Eggers 352)
• RD-P-Session 18: Comparative Analysis/Case Studies in the Americas — Weiss (Eggers 341)
• RD-F-Session 19: Democracy — Simmons (Eggers 306)
• RD-P-Session 20: Governance and Governing — Rush Smith (Eggers 100A)

Week 2

Monday, June 22

• RD-P-Session 21: Process Tracing — Carter (Eggers 018)
• RD-P-Session 22: Corruption and Conflict — Tuñón (Eggers 306)
• RD-F-Session 23: Process Tracing and Archival Research in International Relations — Bennett (Eggers 341)
• RD-F-Session 24: Process Tracing and Text as Data — Shen-Bayh (Eggers 100A)
• RD-P-Session 25: Interviews and Borders/Territory/Mapping — Parkinson (Eggers 352)
• RD-P-Session 26: Ethnography — Bond (Eggers 113)

Tuesday, June 23

• RD-F-Session 27: Migration and Borders — Carter (Eggers 352)
• RD-F-Session 28: Religion — Tuñón (Eggers 100A)
• RD-F-Session 29: Qualitative Approaches in IR — Bennett (Strasser Legacy Room)
• RD-F-Session 30: Autocracy and Repression — Shen-Bayh (Eggers 018)
• RD-F-Session 31: Civil War — Parkinson (Eggers 341)
• RD-P-Session 32: Mixed Methods Approaches to Feminism/Gender — Bond (Eggers 113)

Wednesday, June 24

• RD-F-Session 33: Environment — Kapiszewski (Eggers 306)
• RD-F-Session 34: Interpretive Approaches to Diaspora and Language — Parkinson (Eggers 341)
• RD-F-Session 35: Race — Bond (Eggers 100A)
• RD-P-Session 36: Process Tracing in Political Economy — Fairfield (Eggers 113)
• RD-P-Session 37: Process Tracing and Populism, Legislative Behavior, and Authoritarianism — Seawright (Eggers 018)
• RD-F-Session 38: State and Bureaucratic Capacity — MacLean (Eggers 352)

Thursday, June 25

• RD-F-Session 39: Gender — Kapiszewski (Eggers 100A)
• RD-F-Session 40: Disaster and Welfare — Fairfield (Eggers 306)
• RD-F-Session 41: Large-N and Regression — Seawright (Eggers 352)
• RD-F-Session 42: Conflict and Cooperation in Africa — MacLean (Eggers 341)
• RD-F-Session 43: Voting and Elections — Ahmed (Eggers 113)