2026 Student Fellowship Program

Benjamin Schapiro

The Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR) Executive Council enthusiastically invites graduate and undergraduate students to apply to the MAPOR Student Fellowship Program. This program is a wonderful opportunity for students to pursue research ideas and publish their work. If accepted, you will be invited to present your research at this year’s MAPOR conference in Chicago, which is scheduled for November 13-14, 2026.

You can find out more, including information on how to apply, and deadlines, here: Student Fellowship

2021 MAPOR Fellow and Student Paper Award Winners

Hillary Hanson

MAPOR is pleased to announce our newest MAPOR Fellow—Allyson Holbrook of the University of Illinois—Chicago.  Congrats, Allyson!

We would like to congratulate our 2021 Student Paper Award Winners:

Doris A. Graber Award for Best Public Opinion Paper

Eileen Wu from Northwestern University for her paper “The Moderating Role of Democratic Governance in the Association between Personal Values and Political Ideologies”

Allan L. McCutcheon Award for Best Methodology Paper

Micha Fischer from the University of Michigan for his paper “Parametric and Tree-Based Models for Missing Data Imputation”

We would also like to recognize our 2021 MAPOR Student Fellowship participants and thank our MAPOR fellows for their mentorship.

  • Kruthika Kamath worked with Joe Murphy
  • Rafiuddin Najam worked with Leo Jeffres
  • Robert Schultz worked with Paul Lavrakas