Four outstanding members of Div. 44 became the division’s newest Fellows in 2020. Fellows are recognized on the basis of creating a national or international impact through their work in research, training and education, or public policy and activism. These Fellows were announced during the APA virtual convention in August.
Henny Bos, PhD, has made outstanding contributions to LGBTQ psychology with particular focus on LGBTQ parenting, child development in LGBTQ families, and LGBTQ mental health. A prodigious researcher, Dr. Bos’s work is represented in over 130 journal articles, 27 book chapters and books, and numerous national and international presentations. Dr. Bos is widely recognized as a leading researcher and theorist whose work has had a tangible impact on the lives of countless LGBTQ families. Indeed, her work is prominent among the body of work that has led to these families having the rights they now enjoy.
M. Paz Galupo, PhD, is known to many in Division 44 as the editor of the division journal, Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. She also edits two other journals, Journal of Bisexuality and Journal of GLBT Family Studies. Dr. Galupo has made her own direct contributions to queer psychology, having published widely in such areas as LGBTQ persons of color, bisexuality, plurisexuality, and transgender and nonbinary people and issues. Seen more broadly, Dr. Galupo’s work has been critical to centering the people who have traditionally been at the margins of LGBTQ psychology, marking her body of work as an outstanding contribution to the field.
Division 44’s third new Fellow is Melissa Grey, PhD. Dr. Grey works at the place where psychology meets the lived experience of everyday people and, more specifically, where psychology changes people’s lived experience. She does this by being the consummate student of psychological research, especially in the domains of marginalized people and social change, and by applying this knowledge in a variety of professional and policy spheres. Dr. Grey has been a leader in change efforts in Division 44, the Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, state and provincial psychology organizations, and in state-based organizations for LGBTQ rights. In the process, Dr. Grey has helped many psychologists to understand the power of our discipline to effect positive social change.
Joshua Wolff, PhD, has made exciting and groundbreaking impacts at the complex and understudied intersection of religion and sexual and gender identities. His work at this intersection has included research and scholarship, education and training, and public policy efforts that cross local, state, and federal levels as well as different governmental branches and varied disciplines. Dr. Wolff’s work in this domain has been systematic and persistent and marked by an ability to enter into extended engagement with people who sometimes have very different understandings of gender and sexuality than he holds. His contributions have resulted in major changes in how the discipline conceives of and works with this contested intersection and, from there, in how training programs treat their LGBTQ students.
Congratulations to Div. 44’s new fellows. Each will be invited to offer a fellows address at APA's 2021 convention.