Emerging Scholar Award

The Emerging Scholar Award, established in 2018, is presented biennially to recognize exceptionally high quality work from emerging personality psychologists. To be eligible for the award, nominees must be a graduate student or have received their PhD within the previous five years.

2023 Award Winners

As in prior years, ARP was impressed with the candidates for the 2023 Emerging Scholar Award. The candidates showcased the diversity of topics in our field and an exciting future for personality psychology.

Five candidates stood out as particularly impressive and representative of our discipline. We hope you will join us in congratulating this year’s awardees!

Niclas Kuper, Bielefeld University
Kailey Lawson, Rhodes College
Gabrielle Pfund, Northwestern University
Whitney Ringwald, University of Pittsburgh
Rebekka Weidmann, Michigan State University

Previous Awardees

Emorie Beck, University of California, Davis (2020)
Joshua R. Oltmanns, Stony Brook University Department of Psychiatry (2020)
Hollen N. Reischer, Northwestern University (2020)
Jessie Sun, University of Pennsylvania (2020)
Olivia Atherton, University of Houston (2018)
Courtland Hyatt, University of Georgia (2018)
Ted Schwaba, University of California, Davis (2018)
Manon van Scheppingen, University of Amsterdam (2018)