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. Room assignments will be added later.

Week 1

Monday, June 15

• RD-P-Session 1: Case Studies and Case Comparison I — Mahoney
• RD-P-Session 2: Case Studies and Case Comparison II — Waldner
• RD-P-Session 3: Grounded Theory — Michener
• RD-P-Session 4: Archival Research — Wedeen
• RD-P-Session 5: Discourse Analysis — Blajer de la Garza

Tuesday, June 16

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

Wednesday, June 17

• RD-F-Session 12: IR and Security — Goertz
• RD-P-Session 13: Comparative Historical Analysis — Kreuzer
• RD-P-Session 14: Interviews and Refugee/Migration/Immigration — Simmons
• RD-F-Session 15: State Capacity — Rush Smith
• RD-P-Session 16: Interviews in Environmental Studies — Kapiszewski

Thursday, June 18

• RD-F-Session 17: CHA and the State — Kreuzer
• RD-P-Session 18: Comparative Analysis/Case Studies in the Americas — Weiss
• RD-F-Session 19: Democracy — Simmons
• RD-P-Session 20: Governance and Governing — Rush Smith

Week 2

Monday, June 22

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

Tuesday, June 23

• RD-F-Session 27: Migration and Borders — Carter
• RD-F-Session 28: Religion — Tuñón
• RD-F-Session 29: Qualitative Approaches in IR — Bennett
• RD-F-Session 30: Autocracy and Repression — Shen-Bayh
• RD-F-Session 31: Civil War — Parkinson
• RD-P-Session 32: Mixed Methods Approaches to Feminism/Gender — Bond

Wednesday, June 24

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

Thursday, June 25

• RD-F-Session 39: Gender — Kapiszewski
• RD-F-Session 40: Disaster and Welfare — Fairfield
• RD-F-Session 41: Large-N and Regression — Seawright
• RD-F-Session 42: Conflict and Cooperation in Africa — MacLean
• RD-F-Session 43: Voting and Elections — Ahmed