Award for Distinguished
Theoretical and Philosophical Contributions to Psychology
(established in 1998)
This is the division's highest award, and recognizes one of its
members each year for life-time scholarly achievement.
Award recipients:
1999 Theodore Sarbin
2000 Joseph Rychlak
2001 Daniel Robinson
2002 Donald Polkinghorne
2003 Rachel T. Hare-Mustin
2004 Donald Spence
2005 Kenneth Gergen
2006 Amedeo Giorgi
2007 Edward Sampson
2008 Brewster Smith
Sigmund Koch Award for Early
Career Contribution to Psychology (established 2000)
This award is presented to an excellent young psychologist each
year who is normally within ten years of the Ph.D.
degree and has made promising contributions to theoretical or
philosophical psychology.
Award
recipients:
2001 Elena Grigorenko
2002 Edwin Gantt
2003 John Christopher
2004 Stephen Yanchar
2005 Lisa Osbeck
2006 Sunil Bhatia
2007 Jeff Reber
2008 Roger Frie
Distinguished Service Award (established 1998)
This award is intended to recognize substantial contributions to
the division that further the goals of theoretical and
philosophical psychology. Conferred once per year or less often
as determined by the Awards Committee.
Award recipients:
1999 Michael Wertheimer
2000 Hendrika Vande Kemp
2001 Ronald Miller
2002 (none awarded)
2003 (none awarded)
2004 Brent Slife
2005 Jeff Sugarman
2006 Amy Fisher Smith
2007 Fred Wertz
2008 Hank Stam
Theodore Sarbin Award (established
2005)
The Theodore Sarbin Award is intended to honor a
specific body of work by an individual psychologist which
demonstrates notable achievement in one or more of the fields to
which Theodore Sarbin has contributed. These include narrative
psychology, contextualist theory, social psychological theories
of hypnosis, and other innovative theoretical work that is
'critical' in the broad sense of the term. This award is
presented annually by the Society for Theoretical and
Philosophical Psychology (Division 24). The recipient is
selected by a rotating panel of three judges. Each judge serves
a three-year term, with the most senior judge each year serving
as Chair. Each year, a new judge (to replace the outgoing one)
is chosen by the current judges and approved by the President of
Division 24.
Award recipients:
2005 Jefferson Singer, Connecticut College
2006 Dan McAdams, Northwestern University
2007 Ken Gergen, Swarthmore College
2008 Don Polkinghorne, University of Southern California
Student Paper Award
At each year's convention this award is conferred upon the
student deemed to have given the best paper presentation within
the Division 24 program.
Award Recipients:
2006 Daniel Warner
2007 Kevin Winters
2008 Katerina Daniel