Nicholas Hobbs Award

1984, Jane Knitzer, Ed.D., Author of Unclaimed Children, APA Address: "Child Advocacy: Current Realities."

1985, Edward Zigler, Ph.D., Yale University. APA Address: "In Memory of Nicholas Hobbs."

1986, Milton Shore, Ph.D., APA Address: "Backing into the Future: Child Advocacy in the United States."

1987, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Ph.D., Cornell University. APA Address: "Research and Policy: Answering our Questions."

1988, Gerald Koocher, Ph.D., Harvard University. APA Address: "Ethical Issues in Services for Children."

1989, Carolyn Schroeder, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, & Stephen Schroeder, Ph.D., Nisonger Center of Ohio State University. APA Address: "The Future of Children is Now."

1990, Lewis Lipsitt, Ph.D., Brown University; Head of Science Directorate, APA.

1991, David Elkind, Ph.D., Tufts University. APA Address: "Child Rearing in Post Modern Society."

1992, Gary B. Melton, Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln. APA Address: "Is There a Place for Children in the New World Order?"

1993, Diane J. Willis, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma Health Science Center. APA Address: "New Markets for Psychologists: Creating Community-Based Prevention/Intervention Programs.

1994, James Garbarino, Ph.D., Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development. APA Address: "Children Living in a Violent World."

1995, Lenore Behar, Ph.D., North Carolina Div. of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse. APA Address: "Refining Systems of Care for Children with Mental Health Problems".

1996, Donald K. Routh, Ph.D., University of Miami, Florida. APA Address: "Mental Retardation Revisited."

1997, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Virginia & Leonard Marx Professor in Child Development and Education, and Director, Center for Young Children and Families; Columbia University. APA Address: Untitled.

1998, Lawrence Aber, Ph.D.; Director of the National Center for Children in Poverty, New York.

1999, Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D., Mt. Hope Family Center and University of Rochester; APA Address: “Child Maltreatment: A Research and Policy Agenda for the Dawn of the Millenium”

2000, Aletha C. Huston, Ph.D., Department of Human Ecology, University of Texas at Austin.

2001, Barbara L. Bonner, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma

2002, Joy Osofsky

2003, Gail Goodman

2004, John Weisz