Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring (Division 9)
The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) confers one or two annual awards for outstanding teaching and mentoring in areas related to the psychological study of social issues. This award recognizes teaching excellence in a variety of contexts. In years when two awards are given this will normally recognize one early career winner (within 10 years of the PhD) and the other a later career winner.
Recipients receive $1,000 and a plaque, and will be recognized in the Teaching and Learning column in The Forwardopens in new window newsletter. Honorable mention awardees will receive 1 year of free SPSSI membership. In order to build an online teaching resource center, submitted materials may be included on the SPSSI website for public use. Please note that applications may be reconsidered by the committee in the review process for two award cycles following submission. Recipients of the award might be invited to present during a SPSSI conference session sponsored by the Teaching and Mentoring Committee.
Nominees should be SPSSI members who have made substantial contributions to students in the psychological study of social issues. To be eligible, an individual must have been teaching and/or mentoring students for at least 5 years full time since the doctoral degree. Nominees may teach at graduate degree-granting institutions, bachelor’s degree universities and colleges, or 2-year and community colleges.
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Annual deadline: February 15. Online submissions are the preferred method. Please limit the number and size of files uploaded when applying online.
Please submit the following materials:
nominee’s statement (one to three pages) of teaching/mentoring philosophy, goals and accomplishments, especially as related to the psychological study of social issues
curriculum vitae
summarized student evaluation data (three page maximum)
three letters of support, at least one coming from a current or former student
- outstanding classroom teaching
- teaching in the community (e.g., presentations or workshops that bring the psychological study of social issues to nonacademic audiences)
- teaching-related committee work or scholarship and/or
- exceptional course syllabi for highlighting instruction on social issues
- one-on-one mentoring of graduate students (including research mentorship, advising and clinical supervision)
- one-on-one mentoring of undergraduate students (including research mentorship and advising)
- evidence of supporting student involvement in social justice, policy and change
- current and past student achievements
Self nominations are encouraged. Please send any questions via email.
2018
Lauren Cattaneo, PhD, and Phia Salter, PhD2017
Kim Case, PhD, and Keon West, PhD
2016
Rashmita S. Mistry, PhD
2015
Sheri R. Levy, PhD, and Janet Yoder, PhD
2014
Cynthia McPherson Frantz
Honorable Mention
Leslie Ashburn-Nardo
2013
Linda Tropp, PhD
