Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest
The Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest Award recognizes an individual whose single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of outstanding contributions meet one or more of the following criteria:
- courageous and distinctive contribution(s) in the science or practice of psychology that significantly supports efforts toward a solution to one of the world’s intransigent social problems;
- distinctive and innovative contribution(s) that makes the science and/or practice of psychology more accessible to a broad and diverse population;
- an integration of the science and practice of psychology that serves the public interest and advances social justice and human welfare;
- research leading others to view specific public policies differently;
- research demonstrating the importance of the application of psychological methods and theory to public policy; and
- research clarifying the ways scientific knowledge of human behavior informs public policy.
Awards
Each award recipient will receive:
a $1,000 honorarium;
An invitation to submit a paper to the American Psychologist®
Nominations must be submitted with:
A supporting statement of 500 words or fewer is the basis for the nomination, including a description of how and why the candidate is uniquely qualified to receive the award;
a current vita;
letters of support from no more than three people who are well-positioned to comment on the distinctiveness of the nominee’s contribution(s).
Nominees may also submit no more than three to five selected representative reprints or alternative types of samples of work, such as internet-based communications or legal briefs.
The deadline for receipt of nomination materials is August 1, 2026. Nomination materials for individuals who are not selected for an award will be carried over for consideration for one additional year in the appropriate award category.
Email nominations and supporting materials to Collin Sumera.
2024
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Early Career)
Anjhula Mya Singh Bais, PhD
Anjhula Mya Singh Bais, PhD serves as the Chair of the International Board of Amnesty International, a position she has held since Autumn 2021 to which she was re-elected to a second term in Autumn 2023. She is an international psychology trauma specialist and strategist from Malaysia. From Davos to Dhaka, Bais engages populations on the ground around the climate crisis, mental health, human rights, leadership, and strategic thinking through a feminist lens. She is a global risks perception subject matter expert for the World Economic Forum, sat on the COVID Social Sector Mobilisation Platform, an initiative between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Economic Forum (WEF), and is a consultant to global boards of MNCs around behavior, risk, strategy, and culture including her family’s privately owned Asian conglomerate.
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Senior Career)
Russell B. Lemle, PhD
Russell B. Lemle, PhD, is a Senior Policy Analyst and co-founder of the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute, following a 38-year career as Chief Psychologist at the San Francisco VA Health Care System. He’s a passionate advocate and author of scores of analyses, articles, and opinion pieces on two main topics: nurturing common ground across the political divide on the prevention of firearm suicide, and the existential threat to the VA resulting from explosive outsourcing of veterans’ health care to the private sector. He was a member of the White House veterans suicide prevention task force and has testified to Congress on these issues as well. Lemle has been recognized with multiple distinguished career and lifetime advocacy awards from the American Psychological Association (including the Division 18 Hildredth Award), Association of VA Psychologist Leaders (AVAPL, including the DeLeon and Zeiss Awards), and Disabled American Veterans. The annual AVAPL Russell B. Lemle Leadership Award was established in recognition of his pivotal influence in elevating psychologists’ role improving veterans’ mental health care. Lemle lives in the majestic redwoods of the Bay Area with his beloved wife Victoria, also a psychologist.
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Senior Career)
Nancy M. Sidun, PsyD, ABPP, ATR
Nancy M. Sidun, PsyD, ABPP, ATR, is a clinical psychologist, art therapist, educator, administrator, and scholar. Sidun currently maintains a private practice in Hawaii, having retired as the Chief of the Behavioral Health Multi-Disciplinary Services at the Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) where she served as the first female non-physician, non-military head of the department. Sidun’s commitment to international women’s issues, human rights, and social justice is evidenced in her scholarship, as well as in her humanitarian contributions in crises such as the Maui wildfires. Her most significant and impactful initiative was her introduction to the discipline of psychology the issue of human trafficking, its antecedents, and consequences. She pointed out the centrality of the trafficking issue to psychologists and how psychological science and practice can be harnessed to improve the lives of trafficked persons. As co-chair of APA’s Task Force Report on Trafficking of Women and Girls, she described how psychologists can tackle human trafficking in their professional capacities as researchers, educators, practitioners and their roles in training, advocacy, public policy, and promoting public awareness. Sidun has received nationally competitive awards for her contributions to scholarship and she was invited to address the United Nations on how the COVID-19 pandemic has put more women and youth at risk for trafficking.
2023
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Early Career)
Kathryn Holland, PhD
Kathryn Holland, PhD (she/her) is an assistant professor of psychology and women’s and gender studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (and she just received tenure and promotion to associate professor!). She earned her PhD in psychology and women’s studies from the University of Michigan, and her BA in applied psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research investigates how people’s health and well-being are influenced by their social environments, with a focus on formal support systems, social norms, and interpersonal processes. She is primarily interested in well-being related to sexual assault and sexual health among those who are marginalized by gender and/or sexuality. For example, she has examined the implementation, use, and effectiveness of formal support systems for sexual assault in higher education and how social norms around gender and sexuality affect women’s sexual health. A goal of her work is to use research to promote social justice and change. She has received the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology; the UNL Chancellor’s Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community; and an NSF CAREER Award for her research examining mandatory reporting policies for sexual assault in higher education.
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Senior Career)
Helen Neville, PhD
Helen A. Neville received her doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She was on the faculty in Psychology, Educational and Counseling Psychology, and Black Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia where she co-founded and co-directed the Center for Multicultural Research, Training, and Consultation. Neville was a Provost Fellow and is currently professor of Educational Psychology and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has (co)authored/edited nine books and over 100 articles and book chapters on topics related to racism, racial identity, and healing/wellbeing. She is a past associate editor of the Journal of Black Psychology and of The Counseling Psychologist. Neville has been recognized for her research and mentoring efforts including receiving the APA Graduate Students Kenneth and Mamie Clark Award, the APA Division 45 Charles and Shirley Thomas Award for mentoring/contributions to African American students/community, and the Winter Roundtable Janet E. Helms Mentoring Award. She was honored with the Association of Black Psychologists’ Distinguished Psychologist of the Year award and the APA Minority Fellowship Award, Dalmas Taylor Award for Outstanding Research Contribution. She is a fellow in the APA, president-elect of the Society for Counseling Psychology (APA Division 17), and past-president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race (APA Division 45).
2022
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Early Career)
Della Mosley, PhD
Della Mosley, PhD, exhibits excellence in creating innovative programming that advance psychology in the public interest. Her work is dedicated to addressing some of the world’s most intransigent problems, racism and racial injustice. In the summer of 2020, chants for #BlackLivesMatter were echoed along with demonstrations stretching across the U.S., in response to the ongoing murders of Black people at the hands of police. That same summer, Mosley embodied how psychologists can promote racial justice by co-founding Academics for Black Survival and Wellnessopens in new window.
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Early Career)
Cindy Najdowski, PhD
Cindy Najdowski, PhD, received her BA in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and her MA and PhD. in social and personality psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She joined the University at Albany in 2013, where she is an associate professor and director of the Social-Personality Psychology Doctoral Program. Najdowski’s research examines the social psychological causes of miscarriages of justice that affect marginalized and vulnerable populations. Her studies address how stereotyping and racism generate racial disparities in criminal legal outcomes, the developmental appropriateness of legal responses to juvenile offenders, and the influence of patriarchal beliefs on policy related to sexual violence against women. Najdowski’s interdisciplinary approach generates empirical knowledge on important real-world issues with the dual goals of advancing psychological science and improving equity in law, policy, and practice. Najdowski’s studies have been supported with funding from agencies like the National Science Foundation, the American Psychological Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Her work has been published in leading journals in her area and she has coedited two books. Najdowski has received several nationally competitive awards for her contributions to scholarship as well as her teaching and mentoring.
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Senior Career)
Patrick Corrigan, PsyD
Patrick Corrigan is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Prior to that, Corrigan was Professor of Psychiatry and Executive Director of the University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Corrigan has worked most of his 30-year career in providing and evaluating services for people with psychiatric disabilities with special focus on the impact of health equity. Realizing that the benefits of psychiatric services are limited by stigma, he has spent the past two decades broadening his research to the prejudice and discrimination of mental illness. His work has been supported by NIH and PCORI for most of that time to, among other things, develop and lead the National Consortium on Stigma and Empowerment (www.NCSE1.org). This led to development of the Honest, Open, Proud program to erase the stigma of mental illness (www.honestopenproudprogram.org). Corrigan also extended his research to mental health AND social determinants (e.g., ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, and age) and corresponding social disadvantage related to poverty, criminal justice involvement, and immigration concerns resulting in the Chicago Health Disparities Center (www.chicagoheatlhdispariteis.org) . Corrigan has authored more than 450 journal articles and 20 books. He is also editor of Stigma and Health, an APA journal.
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy
Martin Iguchi, PhD (Posthumous)
Martin Y. Iguchi, PhD, was a pioneering clinical scientist and a lifelong champion of equity and racial justice. At the time of his death, Iguchi was the senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation and director of redesign for the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Affairs. Iguchi possessed a rare blend of empathy, generosity, humility, and unstoppable drive that animated a career spanning nearly 40 years in behavioral health research and practice. Iguchi’s contribution to research on addiction and its sequelae is immeasurable. He has been a principal investigator on dozens of projects, with funding amounts totaling over $18 million. He authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications, cited 6,000 times and counting. Among the defining accomplishments of his career was the centering of patient experiences in methadone maintenance and HIV treatment. His concern with the particular vulnerability of racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities in domestic and international settings became a thread discernable throughout his life. Iguchi laid the groundwork for increasing racial and economic diversity in health policy research and promoting what would become known as community-based participatory research (CBPR). He also became committed to advancing research on the role of the criminal legal system as a driver of health disparities.
2021
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Early Career)
Brian Hall, PhD
Brian J. Hall, PhD is a clinical psychologist whose research is broadly focused on the application of interdisciplinary approaches to address diverse population health challenges. Hall earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Kent State University in 2011 and he gained specialization in epidemiological methods and public health during a two-year NIMH T32 Fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology in the Department of Mental Health at the JHBSPH. In 2013, Hall moved full-time to China through a Fogarty Global Health Fellowship (UMJT Consortium), hosted by the University of North Carolina Institute of Global Health and Infectious Disease, JHBSPH, and the Sun Yat-sen University School of Public Health. In 2017 Hall was the inaugural Global Mental Health Fellow of the World Health Organization, and in 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Hall has served as a consultant for the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNAIDS, and collaborated with several community-based organizations to improve the health of various populations, including internal Chinese and international migrants, adolescents, caregivers, and older adults. Hall is currently a professor of global public health at NYU Shanghai and an associated professor at the School of Global Public Health, NYU.
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Senior Career)
Kimberly Noble, MD, PhD
Kimberly Noble, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Neuroscience and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. As a neuroscientist and board-certified pediatrician, she studies how socioeconomic inequality relates to children’s cognitive and brain development. Her work examines socioeconomic disparities in cognitive development, as well as brain structure and function, across infancy, childhood, and adolescence. She is particularly interested in understanding how early in infancy or toddlerhood such disparities develop; the modifiable environmental differences that account for these disparities; and the ways we might harness this research to inform the design of interventions. She has been awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health and more than a dozen private foundations and is one of the principal investigators of Baby’s First Years, the first clinical trial of poverty reduction in the first three years of life. Noble received her undergraduate, graduate, and medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. She was the recipient of the Association for Psychological Science Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Her TED talk has received more than 2 million views to date, and her work has received worldwide attention in the popular press.
2020
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Early Career)
Valerie Earnshaw, PhD
Earnshaw has made distinctive and highly impactful contributions toward advancing the science, policy and practice of psychology in understanding and alleviating stigma both nationally and internationally. Earnshaw’s work supports efforts toward solving the pernicious social problem of stigma, including its effects on generating and perpetuating health inequities across the lifespan. She has primarily focused on stigma associated with HIV/AIDS, substance use disorders and other health-related conditions, as well as bullying. Earnshaw’s scholarship has had national and international impact on science and policy. She has been published in the field’s highest-impact journals and her work has informed stigma measurement, research and intervention. She has advanced understanding of the mechanisms through which stigma leads to health inequities via her theoretical and empirical contributions. Based on this work, Earnshaw has been invited to participate in efforts to shape national and international priorities to address HIV stigma. She has attended meetings hosted by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS, 2009), the White House and National Institutes of Health (NIH, 2016), the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR, 2016), and the NIH and Fogarty International Center (FIC, 2017). She also participated in a working group to develop HIV stigma indicators (2010-2013), which have been adopted by the UNAIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group and are now used globally.
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Senior Career)
Perry Halkitis, PhD, MPH
Over the past three decades, Perry Halkitis, PhD, MPH, has been an active researcher, teacher, mentor, advocate, activist and leader in public health, specifically in LGBTQ population health. His research, activism and pedagogy have informed policy as well as played a crucial role in transforming societal prejudices towards marginalized populations. As dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health and director of the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS), he has made incredible contributions to the health and well-being of communities in New Jersey, establishing partnerships across the University and State. Halkitis has displayed extraordinary contributions to psychology in the public interest. He is internationally recognized for his work on HIV/AIDS prevention and its correlates of risk behaviors. He was one of the first psychologists to research and document social, psychological and cultural issues related to HIV/AIDS, and his work on methamphetamine addiction is groundbreaking; it brought attention to the new wave of addition and its link with HIV as early as 1998, when others had dismissed this possibility. His informed hunches proved correct, and today his work is cited extensively in the public forum and the scholarly press. As the founder and director of CHIBPS, he has integrated the science and practice of psychology into training the next generation of socially aware behavioral public health researchers, who work with community partners to conduct research rooted in equity. This research is not conceived of or conducted in a vacuum; rather, it is driven by an understanding that research findings must have direct and immediate implications and benefits for the community members involved. He has had the remarkable ability to foster collaborations both within the university and with government/non-government organizations in the state. Refreshingly distinct for academia is Halkitis’ ability to disseminate his research to a lay audience. As a popular TV/radio personality, he often serves as an expert on LGBTQ health, HIV/AIDS, community psychology, and drug addiction, providing interviews that reach the very communities he seeks to work with and serve. He is a frequent contributor to scholarly editorials and blogs as well as national and local media that include the Washington Post, New York Times, Newark Star Ledger, Huffington Post and many other publications, including those focused on LGBTQ issues and rights.
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy
Gary Wells, PhD
Through four decades of programmatic research, Gary Wells has led the way. As a new PhD in social psychology from Ohio State University, Wells (1978) published an article in JPSP in which he introduced a defining distinction between system and estimator variables (system variables are those over which the justice system has control; estimator variables cannot be controlled). This distinction provided a roadmap for the field to come. It would also prove prophetic. It wasn't until 1992 that the Innocence Project, newly founded, discovered through DNA testing that eyewitness errors were the most prevalent cause of wrongful convictions. He introduced such now common concepts as functional lineup size, the post-identification feedback effect, the sequential lineup, and the double-blind lineup. Indeed, his contributions form core elements of the literature as it stands today (much of what Wells has written is now common knowledge—as if it has always been known). Objective metrics of productivity and impact are particularly impressive. Wells has published his work in highly selective, high-impact journals; Google Scholar shows over 21,000 citations and an h score of 74; his research has been consistently funded by the National Science Foundation; and he has won several awards (e.g., from Division 41 of APA, U.S. Department of Justice and Association for Psychological Science). There is no doubt that Wells has had more influence on eyewitness identification research and its application than any other psychologist. In 1996, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno summoned Wells to Washington and asked him to lead a DOJ working group of police, prosecutors and researchers from all over the country. This group ultimately produced a Guide for Law Enforcement that was distributed to thousands of law enforcement agencies. Then Wells led a research team that published the first official "white paper" for Div. 41 of APA. This paper has proved so influential that he and a new team are now finalizing an updated white paper to be published in 2020. Wells' impact has extended well beyond the laboratory. Over the years, he has traveled by invitation to all 50 states to work with practitioners and policymakers to reform how eyewitness identification evidence is collected. Thanks in large part to his efforts, entire states have adopted science-based reforms. Wells has also exemplified the spirit of "giving psychology away" through numerous appearances in newspapers, podcasts and TV news shows in which he has educated audiences on how psychology can be used to prevent miscarriages of justice.
2019
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Early Career)
lore m. dickey, PhD, LP
lore m. dickey came to his work in the field of psychology later in life. His decision to return to school to become a psychologist was informed by his own experience as a transgender person. Although he was able to transition with relative ease, he felt bombarded by the stories of those who were required to meet unrealistic expectations in order to transition; in order to be themselves. dickey is a prolific writer and speaker. He is an engaging and humorous speaker and uses his own life experience to help others understand some of the challenges faced by trans people. He considers it his life mission to make the world safe for transgender and gender diverse people. dickey’s leadership was recognized early in his training and he has served on numerous boards, committees, and task forces all of which were focused on the needs of transgender people. dickey’s research has addressed rarely explored concerns including a study exploring nonsuicidal self-injury. dickey is not afraid to remind people of the ways that they can be inclusive of trans people and he does so in a way that people want to join him in making the world safe for all trans people.
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Senior Career)
Brian L. Wilcox, PhD;
Brian Wilcox is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, where for twenty years he served as director of the Center on Children, Families, and the Law, a multidisciplinary research, policy analysis and training center. He has published in a number of areas related to child, youth, and family policy, including adolescent sexual behavior and risk-taking, youth violence, child maltreatment, child care, and children and media. He has served on the boards of numerous national and international organizations, including ChildFund International, the Research and Effective Programs Task Force of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, and as president of APA’s Div. 37. Additionally, Wilcox served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Federal University, Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil), senior program associate with the William T. Grant Foundation, director of public policy for the American Psychological Association, as a Society for Research in Child Development Congressional Science fellow to Senator Bill Bradley, and as a member of the psychology faculty at the University of Virginia. He received his doctorate in community psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy
Sandra J. Bishop-Josef, PhD
Sandra Bishop-Josef, PhD has dedicated her career to applying research in developmental psychology to the formulation of social policies that will help children from underserved populations reach their full potential. She currently directs the research team at Council for a Strong America, a national, bipartisan nonprofit that unites five organizations comprised of law enforcement leaders, retired admirals and generals, business executives, pastors, and prominent coaches and athletes who promote research-based policy solutions that ensure our next generation is healthy, well-educated, and prepared for productive lives. Prior to joining the Council, Bishop-Josef was Assistant Director of Yale University’s Edward Zigler Center in Child Development & Social Policy, where she directed a training program for students planning to work at the intersection of research and social policy. She also served on the staff of the U. S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, as an APA Esther Katz Rosen Congressional Fellow. Bishop-Josef has authored dozens of academic papers and has edited books, including Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action, and the award-winning Children’s Play The Roots of Reading. She holds an A. B. in psychology from Harvard/Radcliffe College, a master’s degree in child development from Tufts University, and a doctorate in developmental psychology from Yale University.
2018
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Early Career)
John E. Pachankis, PhD
Pachankis has made a distinctive and highly impactful contribution towards advancing both science and practice of psychology in alleviating disparities in HIV and other adverse health outcomes among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. Pachankis has had both national and international scholarly, legal and popular impact, having been published in the field's highest-impact journals, referenced in national professional guidelines for LGBT mental health practice, cited in numerous amici curiae briefs before U.S. state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and featured in national and international media outlets, such as The New York Times. His most significant research contributions involve uncovering complex mechanisms such as identity concealment, contingent self-worth, and intra-minority stress through which stigma compromises LGBT mental health and developing interventions to alleviate these and related mechanisms among LGBT people. Specifically, he developed the first LGBT-affirmative mental health treatment which showed efficacy for improving HIV-negative gay and bisexual young men's mental health while also reducing HIV risk. The treatment also reduced depression, alcohol and drug use problems, and risky sex, by reducing the minority stress mechanisms that underlie these risks. This now work extends to diverse settings (e.g., Eastern Europe, Appalachia) and with diverse segments of the LGBT community (e.g., rural youth).
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Senior Career)
Daniel V. Foster, PhD
Foster is an American Indian licensed psychologist, U.S. Army Sergeant, and former Olympian who has dedicated his life to making a positive impact in Indian Country and beyond. His work was highlighted in 2014 in the APA Monitor on Psychology and explained that he decided to become a psychologist when he "witnessed how many fellow soldiers suffered from psychological wounds much like those American Indians bore from oppression." Additionally, while Foster served as director of behavioral health at the Rosebud Indian Health Service, he along with four other psychologists made the decision to earn a master's degree in psychopharmacology to help improve patient care based on the needs there. His work demonstrates his dedication to public interest. For example, from 2009 to 2012 Foster served on the Chiesman Foundation Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) advisory board. In this capacity, Foster worked on statewide and nationwide changes in decriminalizing FASD-affected children, adults and their families. They worked to help them increase their educational and vocational opportunities through removal of legal, educational and cultural barriers. He was also instrumental in increasing awareness and psychoeducation about FASD, prevention efforts and teaching positive management for living with FASD.
APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy
Nicholas "Dick" Reppucci, PhD
Since the beginning of his career as an assistant professor at Yale University in 1968, Dick Reppucci has been deeply committed to the well-being of our communities through the formulation of public policy based on social science rather than intuition. As an early career mentor, Seymour Sarason instilled within him the courage to explore profoundly difficult research questions of significant importance to the public. To this end, Reppucci has carried on Sarason's legacy and then some. While Reppucci's vast accolades and accomplishments are too many to review in any detail, some that are particularly relevant for receiving this award include: Award for Distinguished Contributions from the Society for Community Research and Action (1998); chair of the APA task force on psychology and public policy (1980-1984); president of the Society for Community Research and Action; invited speaker at the NATO conference on "Multi-Problem Violent Youth in Poland" (2000); recipient of the Society for Research in Adolescence Social Policy Award for Best Article (2008); and awarded more than forty grants investigating a wide range of topics including services provided to juvenile offenders and their families, the evaluation of child abuse prevention programs, adolescent female offenders, adolescent decision-making and culpability, the interrogation of juvenile suspects and many more. In addition to these remarkable scholarly achievements, Reppucci has served on numerous committees and professional organizations, both locally and nationally, aimed at tackling some of the most difficult social justice issues related to children and families involved in the legal system by actively disseminating the latest social science research into public policy.
2017
Kevin Nadal, PhD (Early Career)
Gail Goodman, PhD (Senior Career)
Saul Kassin, PhD (Public Policy)
2016
Faye Z. Belgrave, PhD (Senior Career)
José "Joe" Toro-Alfonso, PhD (Senior Career, posthumously)
Mark Hatzenbuehler, PhD (Early Career)
Anneliese A. Singh, PhD (Early Career)
Dorothy L. Espelage, PhD (Public Policy)
2015
Michael E. Lamb, PhD (Senior Career)
Candice L. Odgers, PhD (Early Career)
2014
Gary B. Melton, PhD (Senior Career)
2013
Thema Bryant-Davis, PhD (Early Career)
Derald Wing Sue, PhD (Senior Career)
2012
Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD (Early Career)
Bernice Lott, PhD (Senior Career)
2011
Edward Delgado-Romero, PhD (Early Career)
Roxane Cohen Silver, PhD (Senior Career)
2010
Perry N. Halkitis, PhD (Early Career)
Norman Abeles, PhD (Senior Career)
2009
Keith Humphreys, PhD (Early Career)
Beverly Greene, PhD (Senior Career)
2008
Rebecca Campbell, PhD (Early Career)
Phillip Zimbardo, PhD (Senior Career)
2007
Gary W. Harper (Early Career)
Larke Nahme Huang
2006
Rose L. Clark (Early Career)
McCay Vernon
2005
Daniel Dodgen (Early Career)
Margaret Beale Spencer
2004
Susan Limber (Early Career)
Dante Cicchetti (Senior Career)
2003
Claude M. Steele (Senior Career)
2002
Brian Smedley (Early Career)
Phyllis A. Katz (Senior Career)*
Melba J.T. Vasquez (Senior Career)*
*This award was shared; it was not an award for collaboration.
2001
Edward Dunbar (Early Career)
Martha Bernal (Senior Career)
2000
Jeannette R. Ickovics (Early Career)
Lillian Comas-Díaz (Senior Career)
1998/1999
Bonnie R. Strickland (Senior Career)
1997
Maria P. P. Root (Early Career)
James G. Kelly (Senior Career)
1996
Gregory Herek (Early Career)
Alan I. Leshner (Senior Career)
1995
David A. Riley
Nancy Felipe Russo
1994
Robert Q. Pollard Jr.
Durand F. Jacobs
1993
Laura C. Leviton
Patrick H. DeLeon
1992
Hortensia Amaro
Florence L. Denmark
1991
Susan T. Fiske
Evelyn Hooker
1990
Baruch Fischhoff
David Lykken
1989
Emory L. Cowen
William Bevan
Leonard Saxe
1988
Ellen Langer
M. Brewster Smith
1987
Michael J. Saks
Urie Bronfenbrenner
1986
Stanley Sue
John Janeway Conger
1985
Gary B. Melton
Jerome D. Frank
1984
Patric H. DeLeon
Seymore B. Sarason
1983
James S. Jackson
Stuart W. Cook
1982
Edward F. Zigler
1981
Herbert C. Kelman
1980
Isidor Chein
Nicholas Hobbs
1979
Marie Johada
Otto Klineberg
1978
Kenneth B. Clark