Deadline January 15 each year for books with publication dates in the previous year

Description

The Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award is presented to the author(s) or editor(s) of a recent book that makes a significant contribution to psychology as an international discipline and profession, or that adds to our understanding of global phenomena and problems from a psychological point of view. Examples include psychological interventions at the micro- and macro- levels, multinational organizations, questions of mental health, pedagogy, peace and war, gender roles, contributions of indigenous psychologies to global psychology, textbooks that integrate theory, research and practice from around the globe, edited volumes integrating contributions from scholars around the world, and overviews of international and global psychology.

Award recipients will be announced in the Spring, and invited to give an address in the DIvision 52 Suite at that year’s Convention. The award includes convention registration fees and a stipend of $500.

Eligible Nominations

Nominations may include authored or edited volumes in any language. All submissions must be accompanied by a 2-page letter in English making a case for the book’s potential contribution to global psychology. Copyright must be in the current year (e.g. 2025 copyright for 2026 awards, deadline January 15, 2026).
Nominations may not include fiction and biographies.

Nominations Process

Criteria
In judging the contribution of each book, the following set of guidelines will be used:

  • How creative and novel are the ideas expressed in the book?
  • How large and significant a contribution does the book make to psychology as a global discipline and profession?
  • Are the book’s contents international or global in nature?
  • Is the book scientifically rigorous and logically sound? Are its theoretical bases well supported and translatable into sound and ethical practice?
  • What is the literary quality of the work? Is it interestingly and well written? Is the audience for whom it is written explicitly stated and does it reach that audience?
  • Does the book maintain a clear focus on psychology as a science and practice?

Procedures

All nominations must be accompanied by a 2-page letter, and three copies of the book.
Nominations for books published in 2025 are due byJanuary 15, 2026 and sent to:
Deborah Best, Ph.D.
Chair, Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award 2025-2027
Wake Forest University
Green Hall
USA
Deborah Best Email: best@wfu.edu

2025 Awards (books published in 2024) are under the purview of the Past Chair, Jamie MacDonald, PhD. These awards will be announced Spring, 2025.

About Ursula Gielen

Ursula Gielen (1916-1997) was vitally interested in the well-being of indigenous, persecuted, and poor people around the world, with a special emphasis on women and. hildren. Her legacy and commitment to international concerns and human welfare continues through her children: Ute Seibold, a former foreign-language secretary in Switzerland; Uwe Gielen, an international psychologist in the United States; Odina Diephaus, a former interpreter with the European Parliament in Belgium and France; and Ansk Gielen, a counseling psychologist in Germany.

 

Past Recipients:

2024
Cognitive  Behavioral Therapy in a Global Context. Editors: Mark D. Terjesen & Kristene A. Doyle. Published 2022, Springer Nature.

2023
Parenting, Infancy, Culture: Specificity and Commonality in Argentina, Belgium, Israel, Italy, and the United States. Editor: Marc H Bornstein. Published 2022, Routledge.

2022
Handbook of Positive Youth Development: Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice in Global Contexts. Editors: Radosveta Dimitrova and Nora Wiium. Published 2021, Springer

2021
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights. Editors: Neal Rubin and Roseanne Flores. Published 2020, Cambridge University Press.

2020
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers. Author: Michele Gelfand (University of Maryland). Published 2019, Scribner
Honorable Mention: Positive Psychology in the Middle East/North Africa. Editors: Louisa Lambert & Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi

2019
Parenting from Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family
Editors: Maria Rosario T. Guzman (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Jill Brown (Creighton University, Omaha), Carolyn Pope Edwards.

2018
The Cultural Nature of Attachment: Contextualizing Relationships and Development. Editors: Heidi Keller (University of Osnabrück, Germany) and Kim A. Bard (University of Portsmouth, UK).

2017
The ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment. Editors: Frederick T. L. Leong (Michigan State University, USA), Dave Bartram (CEB Talent Measurement Lab, USA), Fanny M. Cheung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China), Kurt F. Geisinger (University of Nebraska, USA), and Dragos Iliescu (University of Bucharest, Romania).

2016
Organizations and Management in Cross-Cultural Context. Authors: Zeynep Aycan (Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey), Rabindra N. Kanungo (McGill University, Montreal, Canada), and Manuel Medonça, McGill University, Montreal, Canada).

2015
The Oxford Handbook of Multicultural Identity. Editors: Verónica Benet-Martínez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) and Ying-Yi Hong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore).

2014
Fathers in Cultural Context. Editors: David W. Shwalb (Southern Utah University, USA), Barbara J. Shwalb (Southern Utah University, USA) and Michael E. Lamb (University of Cambridge, UK).

2013
Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict, and Terrorism. Author: Ervin Staub (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA).

2012
Silencing the Self across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World. Editors: Dana C. Jack (Western Washington University, USA), and Alisha Ali (New York University, USA).

2011
International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling: Cultural Assumptions and Practices Worldwide. Editors: Lawrence H. Gerstein (Ball State University, USA), P. Paul Heppner (University of Missouri, USA), Stefanía Ægisdóttir (Ball State University, USA), Seung-Ming Alvin Leung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Kathryn L. Norsworthy (Rollins College, USA).

2009
Culture and Leadership across the World: The GLOBE Book of In-Depth Studies of 25 Societies. Editors: Jagdeep S. Chhokar (Indian Institute of Management, India), Felix C. Brodbeck (Aston University, UK), and Robert J. House (University of Pennsylvania, USA).

2008
Families Across Cultures: A 30-Nation Psychological Study. Editors: James Georgas (University of Athens, Greece), John W. Berry (Queen’s University, Canada), Fons J. R. van de Vijver (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, The Netherlands), Cigdem Kagitcibasi (Koc University, Turkey), and Ype H. Poortinga (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, The Netherlands).