Carolyn Wood Sherif Award

The Carolyn Wood Sherif Award Committee of the Society for the Psychology of Women invites nominations for the annual 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. Thus, selection requires evidence of excellence in teaching and mentoring, research and scholarship, and professional leadership in the area of the psychology of women. The recipient of the next award will receive a cash prize and will be invited to deliver the Sherif Memorial Lecture at the following APA convention. The winner also chairs the subsequent year's award committee. Previous award winners are listed on the SPW website. Sponsored by Division 35.

Annual Deadline:  March 15

How to Apply

To nominate someone for the award, send:

  • a nomination letter (including the nominee's phone number and email address)

  • the nominee's curriculum vitae

  • copies of two or three selected publications

  • three additional letters in support of the nominee (only three letters are considered).

Send materials to Dr. Ellyn Kaschak.  

Past Recipients

2012:  Karen Wyche, PhD. Talk to be delivered at the 2013 APA Convention.

2011:  Ellyn Kaschak, PhD. "The Mattering Map: Multiplicity, Metaphor, and Morphing"

2010:  Melba J. T. Vasquez, PhD. "Feminist Leadership From a Latina Perspective: What's a Latina School Teacher Doing in a Place Like This?"

2009:  Joan Chrisler, PhD. "Leaks, Lumps, and Lines: Stigma and Women's Bodies"

2008:  Beverly Greene. "Trojan Horses, Trojan Women, and the Pursuit of Social Justice: Moving From Symbolism to Structural Change"

2007:  Jacquelyn White. "To Have and to Hurt: Conceptual Issues in Understanding Adolescent Dating Violence"

2006:  Alice Eagly. "Female Leadership Advantage and Disadvantage: Resolving the Contradictions"

2005:  Lillian Comas Diaz. "Spirita: Reclaiming Womanist Sacredness Into Feminism"

2004:  Laura Brown. "Still Subversive After all These Years"

2003:  Cheryl Travis. "The Heart of a Woman" - Unpublished

2002:  Arnold Kahn.  "What College Women do or do not Experience as Rape." Psychology of Women Quarterly (In press).

2001:  (tie) Abigail Stewart. "Gender, Race, and Generation in a Midwest High School: Using Ethnographically Informed Methods in Psychology." In Psychology of Women Quarterly, 27 (2003), 1-11, and Judith Worell, "Searching for the Power in Empowerment" - Unpublished

2000:  Michelle Fine. "The Presence of an Absence." In Psychology of Women Quarterly, 26 (2002), 9-24.

1999:  Sandra Tangri. "Some Life Lessons." In Psychology of Women Quarterly, 23 (2001), 98-102.

1998:  Janet Hyde. "Men are From Earth, Women are From Earth. The Media vs. Science on Psychological Gender Differences." - Unpublished

1997:  Lucia Gilbert. "Dilemmas for Feminist Educators: A Mother-Daughter Dialogue." Part published as Gilbert, M. C., & Gilbert, L. A. (2002). "Challenges in Implementing Strategies for Gender-Aware Teaching." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 7(9), 522-527.

1996:  (tie) Faye Crosby. "Moments of Longing; Circles of Love" - Unpublished; and Bernice Lott, "The Personal and Social Correlates of a Gender Difference Ideology." In Journal of Social Issues, 53 #2 (1997), 279-297.

1995:  Gail Wyatt. "Being Different, Measuring it, Studying it, Treating it, and Living it" - Unpublished

1994:  Phyllis Katz, "Raising Feminists." In Psychology of Women Quarterly, 20 (1996), 323-340.

1993:  Nancy Felipe Russo. "Feminist Psychology: Legacy and Promise" - Unpublished

1992:  Helen Astin. "Women of Influence, Women of Vision: A Model of Collective and Empowering Leadership." Based on H, S. Astin & C. Leland (1991). "Women of Influence, Women of Vision: A Cross-Generational Study of Leaders and Social Change." San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

1991:  Florence Denmark. "Women, Leadership, and Empowerment." In Psychology of Women Quarterly, 17 (1993), 343-356.

1990:  Ravenna Helson. "Women’s Difficult Times: Rewriting the Life Story." Published as: "Women’s Difficult Times and the Rewriting of the Life Story." In Psychology of Women Quarterly, 16 (1992)., 337-347.

1989:  Irene Frieze. "Considering the Social Context in Gender Research." In Psychology of Women Quarterly, 15 (1991)., 371-392.

1988:  Martha Mednick. No title in APA program. Published as "Currents and Futures in American Feminist Psychology: State of the Art Revisited." Psychology of Women Quarterly, 14, 611-621.

1987:  Kay Deaux. "Incipient Identity" - Unpublished

1986:  Barbara Wallston. "No Address" - Deceased

1985:  Nancy Henley. "Feminist Psychology and Feminist Theory" - Unpublished

1984:  Rhoda Unger. "Psychological, Feminist, and Personal Epistemology: Transcending Contradiction." Published in part in M. M. Gergen, Ed. (1988). "Feminist Thought and the Structure of Knowledge." NY: New York University Press. Full version in R. K. Unger (1998). Resisting Gender: Twenty-Five Years of Feminist Psychology. London: Sage.