Awards Committee Report

The current ARP Awards Committee is Jenn Lodi-Smith (chair), Eranda Jayawickreme, Rick Robins, Doug Samuel, and Susan South. The committee wishes to express much gratitude for Tera Letzring's service to the ARP Awards Committee as she rotates off the committee after six years of awards committee service!

The past year was a busy one for the ARP Awards Committee! The committee worked to create a timeline and guidelines for ARP awards to help ensure consistent delivery of awards as we continue to grow. This growth included the creation of two new awards to support our early career researchers — the Emerging Scholar Award and the Diversity Travel Award.

The Emerging Scholar Award was created to recognize exceptionally high quality work from emerging personality psychologists. The 2018 Emerging Scholar award committee was Jenn Lodi-Smith (chair), Eranda Jayawickreme, and Susan South. The 2018 Emerging Scholar recipients are: Olivia Atherton, UC Davis; Courtland Hyatt, University of Georgia; Ted Schwaba, UC Davis; and Manon van Scheppingen, University of Amsterdam. They will present their work in the Emerging Scholar Award symposium at ARP 2019.

The Diversity Travel Award was developed to help maximize the representation of diversity within our field. This new award supports the ARP conference travel of students from historically marginalized communities. The 2018 Diversity award committee was chaired by Eranda Jayawickreme. The other committee members were Doug Samuel and Rodica Damian. The 2018 Diversity Travel Award recipients are: Kira McCabe (Vanderbilt University), Scott Blain (University of Minnesota), Surizady Serrano-Aguirre (University of Houston), Olivia Atherton (UC Davis), and Lily Assaad (Purdue University).

The committee also delivered our existing awards:

The 2018 Murray Award committee was Kate McLean (chair, ARP representative), Nicole Albada (Personology representative), and Oliver Shultheiss (prior winner). The committee selected Phebe Cramer as the 2018 Murray award recipient. She will deliver the Murray Award address at ARP 2019.

The Early Career Award winner for 2018 was Aidan Wright who will deliver the Early Career Award address at the 2019 ARP meeting. The ECA Committee included Julie K. Norem (chair and continuing member from 2017), Doug Samuel, and Wiebke Bleidorn (past winner).

The 2016 and 2017 Tanaka Award winners Felix Cheung and Aaron Weidman will deliver talks at ARP 2019. Erika Carlson stayed on the Tanaka Award committee as the 2017 award chair. Felix Cheung also served as the previous year's winner and Susan South served as the third member of the Tanaka Award committee.

Things to look for from the ARP Awards Committee:

We hope you will join us at ARP 2019 to celebrate our award winners!