Division 35 Awards

The following awards and grants are sponsored by Division 35, either alone or in conjunction with other groups. The work for which the awards are given is typically relevant in some significant way to women's lives, or more generally, to the emerging psychological understanding of gender role influences on human behavior, broadly defined.

• Annual Prize for Psychological Research on Women and Gender by Students
  The student research manuscript should focus on women’s lives and issues, or more generally, on gender ideologies and behavior, from a feminist perspective. 

• Carolyn Wood Sherif Award
  This award is based on contributions to the field of the psychology of women as a scholar, teacher, mentor, and leader.

• Corann Okorodudu Global Women's Advocacy Award
  This award seeks to honor junior or senior psychologists who have worked to advocate for women's and/or girls' mental health around the globe.

• Geis Memorial Award
  This award offers $15,000 to fund dissertation research in the Psychology of Women by an advanced doctoral candidate.

• Heritage Award
  This award is presented annually to a senior individual who has made distinguished, long-standing, and substantial contributions that pertain to women, gender, or related issues in the areas of teaching, research, or practice.

• Janet Hyde Graduate Student Research Grant
  These grants are awarded to doctoral psychology students to support feminist research on the psychology of women and gender. 

• Laura Brown Award
  This award is given to a psychologist who has made outstanding contributions in advancing lesbian and bisexual women's psychology in the areas of scholarship, teaching, practice, and/or activism.

• Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award
  Encourages junior faculty teaching the psychology of women or gender courses.

• Sandra Schwartz Tangri Memorial Award for Graduate Student Research
  For graduate students to conduct social justice research on issues affecting structurally marginalized women.

• Strickland–Daniel Mentoring Award
  This award recognizes the feminist mentoring of the award winner whose mentoring includes several components.

• Sue Rosenberg Zalk Award for Distinguished Service to the Society for the Psychology of Women
  Recognizes the contributions of an individual who has served the Society for the Psychology of Women, American Psychological Association, in a variety of significant ways over a substantial period of time, as did Sue Rosenberg Zalk.

• 2007: Corann Okrodudu International Women’s Advocacy Award is established

• 2006: Jessica Henderson-Daniel awarded the first Bonnie Strickland Mentoring Award. The award is renamed the Strickland-Daniel Mentoring Award

• 2004: Award for exemplary service on Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Issues given to Laura Brown, and renamed the Laura Brown Award

• 1996: Hyde Graduate Student Research Grants established

• 1993: Bequest from Florence Geis estate to establish the Florence Geis Memorial Award for Graduate Student Research

• 1992:  First Heritage Awards

• 1984: First Carolyn Wood Sherif Award presented to Rhoda Unger