The Award for Distinguished Contribution to Theory and Research in Community Psychology is presented annually to an individual whose career of high quality and innovative research and scholarship has resulted in a significant contribution to the body of knowledge in Community Psychology. This award was initiated in 1974.
2019 Thomasina Borkman
2018 Irma Serrano-García
2017 Gary Harper, University of Michigan
2016 Douglas Perkins, Vanderbilt University
2015 Raymond Lorion, Towson University, Maryland
2015 Jack Tebes, Yale University
2014 Anne Brodsky, University of Maryland
2013 Geoffrey B. Nelson, Wifred Laurier University
2012 Hiro Yoshikawa, Harvard University
2011 *
2010 Isaac Prilleltensky, University of Miami
2009 Marc Zimmerman, University of Michigan
2008 Chris Keys, DePaul University
2007 William Davidson, Michigan State University
2006 Kenneth Maton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2005 Abe Wandersman, University of South Carolina
2004 Roger Weissberg, University of Illinois, Chicago
2003 Lonnie Snowden, University of California, Berkeley
2002 Ana Mari Cauce, University of Washington
2001 Rhona Weinstein, University of California, Berkeley
2000 Stephanie Riger, University of Illinois, Chicago
1999 Irwin Sandler, Arizona State University
1998 Dick Reppucci, University of Virginia
1997 Leonard Jason, DePaul University
1996 Marybeth Shinn, New York University
1995 Edison Trickett, University of Maryland
1994 John R. Newbrough, Vanderbilt University
1993 William Ryan, Boston College
1992 Irwin Altman, University of Utah
1991 Kenneth Heller, Indiana University
1990 Edward Seidman, New York University
1989 Edward Zigler, Yale University
1988 Richard H. Price, University of Michigan
1987 Murray Levine, SUNY at Buffalo
1986 Julian Rappaport, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urban
1985 George W. Fairweather, Michigan State University
1984 George Spivack and Myrna B. Shure, Hahnemann University
1983 Rudolf H. Moos, Stanford University
1982 Charles D. Spielberger, University of South Florida
1981 George Albee, University of Vermont
1980 Barbara S. and Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Columbia University
1979 Emory L. Cowen, University of Rochester
1978 James G. Kelly, University of Michigan
1977 Bernard Bloom, University of Colorado
1976 Ira Iscoe, University of Texas at Austin
1975 John C. Glidewell, University of Chicago
1974 Seymour B. Sarason, Yale University
1974 Robert Reiff Albert Einstein College of Medicine
* In 2011 award dates were changed to reflect the year the award was presented. For this reason some awards that are given annually do not have a 2011 recipient.
The winner of the 2010 Distinguished Contributions to Theory and Research Award: Isaac Prilleltensky