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Award Committee Members

  • Jonathan Wyatt (chair)
    Professor of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Edinburgh
  • Tony Adams
    Caterpillar Professor and Chair, Bradley University
  • Kakali Bhattacharya
    Professor of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Florida
Outstanding Qualitative Book Award Winners (English)
  • 2010
    Carolyn Ellis. (2009) Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
    Honorable Mention:
    Mary L. Gray. (2009) Out in the country: Youth, media, and queer visibility in rural America. New York: New York University Press.
    Pat Sikes and Heather Piper. (2010) Researching sex and lies in the classroom: Allegations of sexual misconduct in schools. New York and London: Routledge.
  • 2011
    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.
  • 2012
    Celine-Marie Pascale. (2011) Cartographies of Knowledge: Exploring Qualitative Methodologies. Sage Publications.
    Honorable Mention:
    Andrea Dyrness. (2011) Mothers United: An Immigrant Struggle for Socially Just Education. University of Minnesota Press.
  • 2013
    Donna West. (2012) Signs of hope: Deafhearing family life. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    Honorable Mention:
    Mary M. Gergen, and Kenneth J. Gergen. (2012) Playing with purpose: Adventures in performative social science. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
    Martin Packer. (2011) The Science of qualitative research. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2014
    Robin Boylorn. (2013) Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resistance. New York, Peter Lang.
    Honorable mention:
    Laurel Richardson. (2013) After a Fall: A Sociomedical Sojurn. Walnut Creek, Left Coast Press.
    Ricardo Castro-Salazar & Carl Bagley. (2012) Navigating Borders: Critical Race Theory Research and Counter History of Undocumented Americans. New York: Peter Lang.
  • 2015
    Arthur Bochner. (2014) Coming to Narrative: A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences. Walnut Creek, Left Coast Press.
    Honorable Mention:
    Kristine Munoz. (2014) Transcribing Silence: Culture, Relationships, and Communications. Walnut Creek, Left Coast Press.
    Devika Chawla. (2014) Home, Uprooted: Oral Histories of India’s Partition. New York, Fordham University Press.
    Bronwyn Davies. (2014) Listening to Children: Being and Becoming. London, Routledge.
  • 2016
    Alisse Waterston. (2014) My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century. NY: Routledge.
    Jane Speedy. (2015). Staring at the Park: A Poetic Autoethnographic Inquiry. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
  • 2017
    K. Bhattacharya, & N. K. Gillen (2016). Power, Race, and Higher Education A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
    Honorable Mention:
    Tami Spry (2016). Autoethnography and the Other: Unsettling Power Through Utopian Performatives. New York: Routledge.
  • 2018
    Anderson, P. (2017). Autobiography of a disease. New York & London: Routledge.
    Honorable mention:
    de Rond, M. (2017). Doctors at war: Life and death in a field hospital. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
    Ellingson, L. L. (2017). Embodiment in qualitative research. New York & London: Routledge.
  • 2019
    Co-Winners:
    Denzin, N. (2018). Performance autoethnography: Critical pedagogy and the politics of culture. (2nd ed.). London & New York. Routledge.
    Ellis, Carolyn. (2018). Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness. (Revised & expanded ed.). Philadelphia, Rome & Tokyo: Temple University Press.
    Honorable mention:
    Bhatia, S. (2018). Decolonizing psychology: Globalization, social justice, and Indian youth identities. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Gullion, J. S. (2018). Diffractive ethnography: Social sciences and the ontological turn. New York & London: Routledge.
  • 2020
    Winner:
    Wyatt, J. (2019). Therapy, stand-up, and the gesture of writing. New York & London: Routledge.
    Honorable mention:
    Holman Jones, S., & Harris, A. M. (2019). Queering autoethnography. New York & London: Routledge.
    Kuntz, A. M. (2019). Qualitative inquiry, cartography, and the promise of material change. London & New York: Routledge.
    Richardson, L. (2019). Lone twin: A true story of loss and found. Leiden & Boston: Brill Sense.
  • 2021
    Winner:
    Edwards, E. B., & Esposito, J. (2020). Intersectional analysis as a method to analyze popular culture: Clarity in the matrix. Routledge.
    Honorable mention:
    Faulkner, S. L. (2020). Poetic inquiry: Craft, method and practice (2nd ed.). Routledge.
  • 2022
    Winner:
    Lengelle, R. (2020). Writing the Self in Bereavement: A Story of Love, Spousal Loss, and Resilience. London & New York: Routledge.
    Honorable Mentions:
    Davies, B. (2020). Entanglement in the World’s Becoming and the Doing of New Materialist Inquiry. London & New York: Routledge.
    Rhee, J. (2020). Decolonial Feminist Research: Haunting, Rememory and Mothers. London & New York: Routledge.
  • 2023
    Winners:
    Marisa de Andrade, Public Health, Humanities and Magical Realism: A Creative-Relational Approach to Researching Human Experience, Routledge
    Stephanie R. Toliver, Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research, Routledge
    Honorable Mention:
    Thalia Mulvihill and Raji Swaminathan, Collaborative Qualitative Research, Guilford Press
  • 2024
    Winner:
    M.F. Alvarez, Unravelling: An Autoethnography of Suicide and Renewal. Routledge.
    Honorable Mention:
    Trish Thompson and Dan Harris, Collaborative Writing and Psychotherapy: Flattening the Hierarchy Between Therapist and Client, Routledge.
  • 2025
    Joint winners:
    Wiremu NiaNia, Allister Bush, David Epston, Ngā Kūaha: Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry, Routledge, 2025.
    Alexandre Baril, Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide, Temple University Press, 2023.
Outstanding Qualitative Book Award Winners (Spanish or Portugese)
  • 2012
    Fernando Peñaranda Correa et al.(2011). Educación para la salud: una mirada alternativa al modelo biomédico. La praxis como fundamento de una educación dialógica. Medellín, Colombia: La Carreta Editores.
  • 2014
    Maria do Mar Pereira. ‘FazendoGénero no Recreio. A negociaçao do géneroemespaço escolar (Making Gender at playtime. Negotiating gender in school space.) Lisboa: Imprensa de CiênciasSociais, 2012.
  • 2016
    João Amado. (2014). Manual de Investigação Qualitativa em Educação (Handbook of Qualitative Inquiry in Education). Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
  • 2018
    Ana Caetano. Pensar na vida. Biografias e reflexividade individual. Lisboa, Portugal: Editora Mundos Sociais – Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia. Instituto Universitario de Lisboa. First edition, 2016.