AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED THEORETICAL AND
PHILOSOPHICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO PSYCHOLOGY
This is the division's highest award, and recognizes one of its
members each year for life-time scholarly achievement.
(established 1998)
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
2009 Michael Wertheimer
2010 Rom Harré
2011 Eugene Gendlin
2012 Karl Pribram
2013 Frank Richardson
2014 Philip Cushman
2015 Jack Martin
2016 Jeanne Marecek
2017 Henderikus Stam
2018 Jill Morawski
2019 Mary Watkins
STEVE HARRIST DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
This award is intended to recognize substantial contributions to the division that
further the goals of theoretical and philosophical psychology.
(established 1998)
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
2009 Frank Richardson
2010 Thomas Teo
2011 Jack Martin
2012 Suzanne Kirschner
2013 Katherine Slaney
2014 Lisa Osbeck
2015 Jeff Reber
2016 Mark Freeman
2017 Blaine Fowers
2018 Scott Churchill
2019 Gary Brill
SIGMUND KOCH AWARD FOR EARLY CAREER CONTRIBUTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
This award is presented to an excellent young psychologist each year who is within ten years of the
Ph.D. degree and has made promising contributions to theoretical or philosophical psychology.
(established 2000)
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
2009 Michael Tissaw
2010 Sarah Hickinbottom
2011 Kate Slaney
2012 David Goodman
2013 (not awarded)
2014 Joshua Clegg
2015 John Roberts
2016 Leeat Granek
2017 Dennis Wendt
2018 Brady Wagoner
2019 Sarah Kamens
THEODORE SARBIN AWARD
This award honors a specific body of work by an individual psychologist that demonstrates notable achievement
in one or more of the fields to which Theodore Sarbin has contributed, including narrative psychology, contextualist theory,
social psychological theories of hypnosis, and other innovative theoretical work that is “critical” in the broad sense of the term.
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.
(established 2005)
Award recipients:
2005 Jefferson Singer
2006 Dan McAdams
2007 Ken Gergen
2008 Don Polkinghorne
2009 Ruthellen Josselson
2010 Mark Freeman
2011 Bertram Kohler
2012 Lisa Osbeck
2013 Michael Bamburg
2014 Rom Harré
2015 John Shotter
2016 Brian Schiff
2017 Sunil Bhatia
2018 Michelle Fine
2019 Suzanne Kirschner and Thomas Teo
OUTSTANDING STUDENT SERVICE AWARD
This award recognizes the substantial contributions of a student affiliate to the society
that further the goals of theoretical and philosophical psychology.
(established 2013)
Award recipients:
2013 Marissa Barnes
2014 Elisabeth McClure
2015 Tyler Lefevor
2016 Snjezana Huerta
2017 Cacky Mellor and Erin Thrift
2018 Karyna Pryiomka
2019 Justin Karter
2006 Daniel Warner
2007 Kevin Winters
2008 Katerina Daniel
2009 Bradford J. Wiggins
2010 Cody Christopherson
2011 Tzy Horng Sai
2012 Tyler Lefevor
2013
2014 Alyssa A. Emery
2015 Pavan Brar & Zhipeng Gao
2016 Erin Thrift
2017 Garri Hovhannisyan
2018 Snjezana Huerta
2019 Justin Karter