8:00-8:30am Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:00 Opening Remarks
Dr. Peg Barratt, Director, Division of Social and Cognitive Sciences
Dr. Richard Lempert, Director, Division of Social & Economic Science
Michèle Lamont, Harvard University , Workshop Convener
9:00-10:00 Standards in Cultural Anthropology
Gery Ryan, Rand Corporation, Co-convener & session moderator
Ted Bestor, Harvard University
John Comaroff, University of Chicago
Linda Garro, University of California, Los Angeles
Susan Weller, University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston
10:00-10:30 Discussion
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Standards in Political Science
Andrew Bennett, Georgetown , Co-convener & session moderator
David Collier, University of California , Berkeley
Colin Elman, Arizona State University
John Gerring, Boston University
Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University
Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago
12:00-12:30 Discussion
12 :30-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:30 Standards in Law & Social Science
John Bowen, Washington University, Co-convener & session moderator
Don Brenneis, University of California , San Diego
Susan Coutin, University of California - Irvine
Wendy Espeland, Northwestern University
Susan Silbey, MIT
Jody Miller, University of Missouri , St. Louis
2:30-3:00 Discussion
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:15 Standards in Sociology
Michèle Lamont, Harvard University , Convener & session moderator
Kathleen Blee, Pittsburgh University
Wendy Griswold, Northwestern University
Joane Nagel, University of Kansas
Mario Small, Princeton University
Alford Young, University of Michigan
4 :15-5:00 Discussion
5:00 Adjourn
8:30-9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Standards that Cross-Disciplinary Boundaries—Common Criteria
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Promising Topics for Qualitative Research
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Resources Available and Needed for Strengthening Qualitative Research
2:00-2:45 Critical Areas for Discoveries to Advance Qualitative Research
2:45-3:30 Developing a Research Agenda for Multi-Disciplinary Qualitative Research
3:30 Closing Remarks and Adjournment
Dr. Wanda Ward, Acting Assistant Director, Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences Directorate