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2026 WARREN J. MITOFSKY AWARD CEREMONY AND RECEPTION
Honoring Scott Keeter, Senior Survey Advisor at the Pew Research Center
Scott received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina and developed an early interest in surveys as an assistant professor at Rutgers University and at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he led the Survey Research Laboratory.
Scott has a deep connection to both the Pew Research Center and the Roper Center. He was a consultant to Andy Kohut at the Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press, and took a full-time job at the Center in 2002. When the Times Mirror Center became the Pew Research Center in 2004, Scott’s methodological expertise helped establish its reputation from its inception as the gold standard for research quality. His skillfulness, good sense, and ability to innovate kept the Center’s reputation for excellence intact through the series of methodological transformations that unsettled the field of opinion research in recent decades and enabled the Center to conduct ground-breaking research among special populations including Muslim Americans and Asian Americans.
Scott’s work is represented in hundreds of surveys preserved in the Roper Center archive, and he has used the archive extensively in writing about American public opinion and political behavior. He is co-author of four books on the topic and one of these, What Americans Know About Politics and Why It Matters, relies heavily on the trove of knowledge questions in the archive.
Scott is a past president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, and won AAPOR’s highest honor, the lifetime achievement award, in 2016.
Thursday, November 12, 2026 (6:00 p.m. cocktails and light buffet; 7:00 p.m. award ceremony)
Pew Research Center, 901 E Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20004
(Live music, business attire)
