Heritage Award
The Heritage Award is given annually to an individual who has made distinguished, substantial, and long-standing feminist contributions to women and gender, intersectionally and/or globally, in any of the following areas:
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Teaching/Mentoring
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Practice/Advocacy
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Research/Scholarship
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Professional Service
Recipients of SPW Wood Sherif Award are not eligible for the Heritage Award.
Preference for the Heritage award is given to individuals whose contributions and achievements have not been recognized via other SPW awards.
Annual Deadline: May 1
Nomination materials to be submitted electronically to the Committee co-chairs, in one PDF, are:
- The nominee’s curriculum vitae.
- A primary letter of nomination describing the nominee’s contributions to teaching/mentoring, practice/advocacy, research/scholarship, and/or professional service, and their impact on feminist psychology. Please be specific as to the area(s) for which you are nominating the individual.
- No more than three additional letters of support that describe the nominee's contributions ad their impact on feminist psychology.
- Supporting materials (up to three items) that document the nominee's contributions in the specified award area.
Questions and nominations should be addressed to the Heritage Awards chairs: Silvia Sara Canetto and Helen L. Coons.
2021
Maureen C. McHugh
2020
Aída Hurtado, PhD
2019
Silvia Sara Canetto, PhD
2018
Helen L. Coons, PhDKaren O'Brien, PhD
2017
Oliva Espin, PhD
2016
Pamela Remer, PhD
2015
Michele Hoffnung, PhD
2014
Fran Trotman, PhD
2012
no award presented
2011
no award presented
2010
Research award
Louise Fitzgerald
2009
Teaching award
Susan Basow
2008
Practice award
Carolyn Zerbe Enns
2007
Research award
Letitia Anne Peplau
2006
Teaching award
Janice D. Yoder
2005
Practice award
Ellyn Kaschak
2004
Research award
Judith Worell
2003
no award presented
2002
no award presented
2001
Teaching award
- Lucia Gilbert
- Janis Bohan
- Margaret Matlin
2000
Publication award
Beverly Greene
1999
APA Service award
Lillian Comas Diaz,
1998
Practice award
- Hannah Lerman
- Laura Brown
1997
Research award
- Mary Koss
- Evelyn Hooker (posthumously)
1996
Publication award
Janet Hyde
1995
Policy awardBernice Lott
1994
Research award
- Barbara A. Gutek
- Arnold S. Kahn
1993
Research award
Kay Deaux
1993
Publication award
Agnes O'Connell
1992
APA Service award
Florence L. Denmark
1992
Research awardMary Brown Parlee
1992
Practice award
Rachel T Hare-Mustin
1992
Policy award
Nancy Felipe Russo
1992
Publication award
Carol Ann Tavris
1991
Research award
Florence Geis
1991
Publication award
Nancy Henley