Awards Committee

This Committee shall consist of the three (3) most recent Past Presidents of the Division and the most immediate past-president will serve as Chair. The Committee shall be responsible for recommending awards of such a nature as are consistent with the aims of the Division. The Awards Committee recommends and/or oversees all awards given by the Division.

The Awards Committee has direct responsibility for nominations for the division’s Outstanding Psychologist Awards. This includes The Outstanding International Psychologist Awards and the Early Career Outstanding Psychologist Awards, which are given in two categories, one for a non-U.S. based candidate, and the other for a candidate based in the U.S. In the past responsibility for the ECP Outstanding Awards has been delegated to the ECP Committee Past Chair to form a committee.

The following are award subcommittees whose awardees are selected separately by their respective committee chairs and committee members.

  • Anastasi Graduate Student Research Awards
  • APA Divison 52 Global Citizen Psychologist Citation
  • Florence Denmark and Mary E. Reuder Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Psychology of Women and Gender
  • Henry P. David International Mentoring Award
  • International Student Research Award
  • Jean Lau Chin Awards for Outstanding Psychologist and Graduate Student in International Leadership Contributions
  • Neal S. Rubin/Roseanne L. Flores Student Research Awards in Psychology and Human Rights
  • Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award (note this chair is appointed by the Gielen Award and not the D52 Awards Chair)

Award sub-committees present their nominations to the Awards Committee.. The Awards Committee submits all award recommendations to the voting Board of Directors of the Division for final approval. The bestowing of any such award by the Board of Directors shall require an affirmative vote of two-thirds (2/3) of Board Members present and voting.