An annual award of The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University
The Roper Center’s Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research honors important work on public opinion and/or survey methodology. Nominees can include those with recent work or past work that continues to have a significant impact on our understanding of public opinion. Individuals can be nominated for a major project, innovation, or body of work by a researcher or practitioner. Special consideration will be given to work that relates to data archived at the Roper Center. The Center welcomes and encourages diversity in all aspects of the research profession, including our award nominees.
The award honors the life and work of the late Warren J. Mitofsky, an innovator in survey research and longtime chair of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research board of directors.
Please submit nominations using this brief form. Self-nominations are welcome.
For full consideration, nominations must be received by Friday, April 4, 2025.
The 2024 Mitofsky Award winner was Michael Traugott, a longtime leader in the survey research community. Past awardees also include: Diane Colasanto, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Lawrence Bobo, Karlyn Bowman, Patricia Moy, Mollyann Brodie, Howard Schuman, James Stimson, Daniel Yankelovich, Andrew Kohut, Adam Berinsky and Eric Schickler, Norm Bradburn, Kathleen Frankovic, James Davis, Robert Wuthnow, Robert Blendon, and John Mueller.