The NSF has just released the report from a 2005 workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research. The workshop brought together 24 scholars from cultural anthropology, law and social science, political science, and sociology to: articulate the standards used in their particular field to ensure rigor across the range of qualitative methodological approaches; identify common criteria shared across the four disciplines for designing and evaluating research proposals and fostering multidisciplinary collaborations; and develop an agenda for strengthening the tools,…