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Dear friends and colleagues,We are pleased to announce that the **5th Annual QCA Conference of the Americas (AQCA 2026)** will be held at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, on **March 18–20, 2026**. As always, AQCA provides a venue for the broad, cross-disciplinary community of QCA empirical researchers and methodologists, offering the opportunity to present and receive feedback on current research projects, share theoretical and methodological developments, and discuss new directions in research practices.
AQCA is a broad-tent, inclusive, and diverse venue open to everyone interested in learning about and advancing the configurational-comparative agenda. We welcome contributions from all theoretical traditions and fields and encourage theoretical, empirical, and methodological work that captures configurational and causally complex phenomena. We are especially interested in empirical applications of QCA from applied researchers and scholars outside the traditional QCA strongholds of sociology, political science, and management, including but not limited to anthropology, education, environmental studies, information systems, medicine, health policy, policy monitoring and evaluation, and tourism.
We welcome proposals for both in-person paper and poster presentations. Please note that we are exclusively accepting in-person presentations. However, as in previous years, virtual attendance remains possible. The call for abstracts (approximately 500 words) is now open, and submissions are due by **December 1, 2025**, via our submission portal: [https://conferencebit.com/qca-conference-of-the-americas-2026/](https://conferencebit.com/qca-conference-of-the-americas-2026/). Complete details and updates are available on the conference website: [https://compasss.org/aqca](https://compasss.org/aqca).
Participants may also organize one-day workshops on Wednesday, March 18, held alongside the QCA training events. These self-organized workshops focus on a particular QCA-related topic (e.g., QCA in health research, studying time with QCA). If you are interested, please contact the organizers. AQCA will provide logistical support (e.g., room allocation), while funding and program design remain the responsibility of the workshop organizers. More information is available here: [https://compasss.org/aqca/news/](https://compasss.org/aqca/news/).
**AQCA 2026 will continue to offer an engaging and informative forum**, providing opportunities to learn, network, and exchange knowledge. Regardless of your field or topic, if you use QCA and/or other configurational methods and set-analytic techniques—or are considering using them—then AQCA is for you. Whether your work is empirical, methodological, or theoretical, whether you are a seasoned practitioner or just discovering QCA, we hope you will join us for three days of lively discussions, debates, and community-building.
Sincerely,
The AQCA 2026 Organizing Committee
Joanna Campbell – University of Cincinnati (local organizer)
Claude Rubinson – University of Houston-Downtown
Gary Goertz – University of Notre Dame
Peer Fiss – University of Southern California
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Cincinnati, 2600 Clifton Ave,Cincinnati, United States
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