The IMM Group gives the Lee Ann Fujii Award every other year to recognize published works that most innovatively study political violence from an interpretive perspective, memorializing Dr. Fujii’s approach to political research and her overall contributions to interpretive research methods. In keeping with her own efforts both to expose more hidden and systemic types of harm (racial and gender discrimination, in particular) and to understand what drives people to kill, the nominated work may take any type of political violence, broadly construed, as its concern. The award recognizes works that not only report on findings, but which engage the methodological entailments and/or methods challenges of studies of political violence, broadly construed. Consideration will be given to interviewing, as in Dr. Fujii’s research, but also to other methods.

The award is presented biannually for a journal article or chapter-length publication. In addition to considering chapters from edited books, eligibility will also extend to chapters from monographs that do not focus on political violence as a whole, but which include an outstanding and innovative methodological chapter (including, e.g., methodological appendices) that could lend itself to the study of violence.

To be eligible, the publication must have been published during the two-calendar-year period prior to the year of the APSA meeting, as determined by the publication’s date. To be eligible for the 2025 Fujii Article Award, the nominated publication must bear a copyright date of either 2023 or 2024. The award committee is under no obligation to make an award if submissions do not merit such recognition.