Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring in Qualitative Inquiry Award
This award recognizes demonstrated excellence in teaching and mentoring within the field of qualitative inquiry. Award recipients attending the APA convention will receive the following:
- An honorary one-year membership to Division 5.
- An awards plaque and a place in history.
The annual deadline for this award is the second Monday of December.
Questions about the awards, nominations, and review process can be addressed to Jessica McKenzie. The outcome of the review process will be announced each year in March.. The outcome of the review process will be announced each year in March.
Neither the nominator nor nominee need be a current or former member of either the APA or Division 5. Both self-nominations and nominations of others will be considered.
Nominees must be willing to participate in the process of selecting winners for their awards in the following year.
Nomination materials should include:
- A nomination letter and two additional letters of support that describe distinguished teaching and mentoring through teaching evaluations, awards or testimonials; the nominee’s impact on student career trajectories; and the nominee’s impact via public dissemination, such as workshops, conference presentations, books, websites or involvement in public media.
- The nominee’s current curriculum vitae.
- Please send all requested nomination materials to Jessica McKenzie by the second Monday in December. In your email, please use the subject line “APA Division 5 Award Nomination”. In addition, please ask for confirmation that your materials have been received. If you do not receive a confirmation, please follow up to make sure that your materials have been received.
2025
Sara McClelland
2024
Jessica Nina Lester
2023
No award
2022
Ram Mahalingam
2021
Dionne Stephens
2020
Eva-Maria Simms
2019
Nancy Deutsch
2018
Larry Davidson
2017
Lorraine Gutierrez