Regular and Associate Members

If applying for Regular or Associate membership, youmust currently be a member or associate of APA. Be sure to list your name the same way as recorded by APA, and your APA membership number. Regular and Associate members of the Division hold comparable membership status in APA. You will have the same voting privileges as an Affiliate member during your application year. Applications received before August 1 each year will be presented to the Executive Committee for election to full membership beginning the following January. Thereafter, you will be billed for Division dues on your annual dues statement.

Benefits: If you join before October 1st, you will receive any back issues of the Division 35 journal, Psychology of Women Quarterly. To join as a Regular or Associate member, complete the form below and send it to the Division office with a payment of dues for the current calendar year.

Affiliated Professional or Student Member

Affiliated Professional and Student Members are persons who are not full members of APA but who have an interest in the Psychology of Women. Membership is for a calendar year, and Affiliates and Students are billed each fall for renewal.

Benefits: Affiliated Professional or Student membership entitles you to the Division Newsletter, Psychology of Women Quarterly, and to vote in all division elections except for APA representatives. If you join before October 1st, any back issues of the journal, Psychology of Women Quarterly, for the current calendar year will be sent to you. To join as an Affiliated Professional or Student member, send the form below and $15 to the Division 35 office.

Gift Membership in Division 35

Give a membership in Division 35, which includes a subscription to the Feminist Psychologist and Psychology of Women Quarterly. Great for birthdays or to congratulate a student who completes a thesis or degree! Just print out and complete the application form. We will send a card notifying the recipient of the gift. Membership Application (print out and mail) Please limit name and address to four lines.

For more information, contact:

Membership and Recruitment Committee
Susan A. Basow, PhD, Chair
Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology
Lafayette College
Easton, PA 18042-1781
Phone: 610-330-5294
Fax: 610-330-5349
E-mail: basows@lafayette.edu

There are also four sections within Division 35 (membership optional).

Section I, Black Women's Concerns
Section III, Hispanic Women's Concerns
Section IV, Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Issues
Section V, Asian Women's Concerns

Read about how to become involved in Division 35 by clicking here!

Fellows

Become a Fellow of Division 35!
  The Division 35 Fellows Committee is seeking
nominations and applications for
Fellow status in the Division.
Self-nominations are welcome.

Fellows Committee Chair:
Asuncion Miteria Austria, PhD

Next Deadline: January 15, 2010

Two Paths to Fellow

There are two paths to Fellow status in the Division: 

First, members of the Division 35 who are APA members, but are not  Fellows of APA, may apply for Fellow status in  Division 35. They are known as “New Fellow” applicants and must meet  both APA criteria and Division 35 criteria for fellow status.  
         
Second, any member of Division 35 who is already a current Fellow of APA may apply to become a Fellow of the division. These applicants are known as “Current Fellows.” Current fellows are only evaluated by the Division Fellows Committee.

To see a list of current fellows, please click here. Current Fellows are good resources for information about being and becoming a Fellow. Letters from current Fellows are also required for those applying for New Fellow status.

APA Fellow Criteria
APA criteria include:

1. Five (5) years of acceptable professional experience beyond receipt of the doctoral degree.
2. Membership in APA for at least one year
   
3. Unusual and outstanding contributions that have had national or international impact in psychology.

Division 35 Fellow Criteria
Division 35 requires evidence of unusual and outstanding contributions that have had national or international impact in the psychology of women. "Unusual and outstanding contributions" with respect to scholarly publications, for example, should include evidence of citations. Leadership in Division 35 and other psychological associations are also relevant. In either case, evidence of accumulation of impact and performance over time is required.

Process for New Fellows
Applicants for New Fellow status in Division 35 should obtain  information and forms from the Chair of the Division Fellows Committee. Nominees must have their applications sent in to the fellows chair by the set deadline, which generally  falls in  late December or  early January.  This due date is published on the website and in the division newsletter in the fall. These candidates’ applications are evaluated by  the Division Committee; those receiving a positive recommendation will have their applications reviewed by the APA Fellows Committee.  Fellow status is granted by the APA  Fellows Committee.

Process for Current Fellows
Current Fellows of APA from other divisions may apply for Division 35 status by sending a current c.v., plus a letter highlighting the reasons that  one has met the criteria for fellow status in the Division. These candidates’ applications are evaluated by  the Division Committee only. The due date for these applications is April 15. Current Fellows may send their applications via email to the Fellows Committee Chair.

How to apply
Applications for New Fellow status in Division 35 require letters from three current Division 35 Fellows, as well as other materials that are supplied or explained in the application packet. Application packets (including required forms for the applicant to send to her or his recommenders) are available from the Division 35 Fellows chair. All the forms for the APA Nominiation and Election can be found at http://members.apa.org/fellows

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Fellows Committee Chair
Dr. Asuncion Miteria Austria
Phone: 414-410-4471
Fax: 414-410-4239
E-mail: amaustria@stritch.edu
Mailing Address:
Cardinal Stritch University
6801 N. Yates Road
Milwaukee, WI 53217-3985

Next Deadline
January 15, 2010

Completed applications (including all three letters of recommendation typed on the APA required forms, which are sent directly to the Fellows Chair) must be received by the deadline. No faxed or emailed materials are acceptable.