2011 Congress Award Winners

Lifetime Achievement Award in Qualitative Inquiry for dedication and contributions to qualitative research, teaching, and practice.
2011: Janice M. Morse

Special Career Award in Qualitative Inquiry for dedication and contributions to qualitative research, teaching, and practice
2011: Robert Stake

Landmark Achievement Award
2011 Mitch Allen

Illinois Distinguished Qualitative Dissertation Award:

• Category A: Traditional and Mixed-Methods:
  • Winner: Sharalyn Jordan, Un/settling: A critical ethnographic inquiry into settlement by refugees making claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
  • Honorable Mention: Toni Shorter Smith, “A Case Study of the Lincoln Theatre in Columbus, OH: A Participatory Social Action Study.”
• Category B:
  • Experimental: Kristi Bruce Amatucci, “Teacher Undone.”
  • Honorable Mention: Tony Adams, “Learning, living, and leaving the closet: Making gay identityrelational.”

Outstanding Qualitative Book Award: Co-Winners:

• Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston (2010). Staging strife: Lessons from performing ethnography with Polish Roma women. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Marilyn Metta, (2010). Writing against, alongside and beyond memory: Lifewriting as reflexive, poststructuralist feminist research practice. New York: Peter Lang.
• Honorable Mention: Viv Martin, (2010) Developing a narrative approach to healthcare research. Oxford, UK: Radcliffe.

2010 Congress Awards

Inaugural Qualitative Inquiry Book Award:

• Carolyn Ellis, REVISION: Autoethnographic Reflections on a Life and Work (Left Coast Press, 2009).
• Honorable Mention:
  • Mary L. Gray. Out in the country: Youth, media, and queer visibility in rural America. (New York: New York University Press, 2009).
  • Pat Sikes, and Heather Piper. Researching sex and lies in the classroom: Allegations of sexual misconduct in schools. (New York and London: Routledge. 2010).

Lifetime Achievement in Qualitative Inquiry:
Yvonna A. Lincoln

Special Career Award in Qualitative Inquiry:
Harry F. Wolcott

2010 Illinois Distinguished Qualitative Dissertation Award Winners:
Category A: Traditional: Ifeoma Ann Amah. UCLA
Category B: Mixed-Methods: Sara B. Dykins Callahan, University of South Florida
Category C: Experimental: Mansha Mirza, University of Illinois at Chicago