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William James Award

Description

Past Recipients

Past Recipients

This award is offered every three years to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution through publication and professional activity to basic research and theory in the psychology of religion and related areas.


Eligibility: All individuals are eligible for consideration.

Past Recipients

Past Recipients

Past Recipients

2023 Pehr Granqvist

2020 Julie Exline

2017 Vassilis Saroglou

2016 None

2015 None

2014 Crystal Park

2013 None

2012 None

2011 None

2010 Robert Emmons

2009 None

2008 None

2007 Lee Kirkpatrick

2006 None

2005 None

2004 None

2003 Jacob A. Belzen

2002 None

2001 None

2000 Antoine Vergote

1999 None

1998 None

1997 K. Helmut Reich

1996 None

1995 Kalevi Tamminen

1994 Jim Fowler

1993 Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

1992 L.B. Brown

1991 Bruce Hunsburger

1990 Allen E. Bergin

1989 Peter Benson

1988 C. Daniel Batson

1987 Kenneth Pargament

1986 Richard Gorsuch

1985 Ralph Hood

1984 Noel Mailloux

1983 Merton Strommen

1982 Bernard Spilka

1981 Walter Houston Clark

1980 None

1979 Andre Godi

1978 None

1977 Orlo Strunk

1976 Frank Kobler

How to Apply

Nominations for this award should include a brief statement explaining why the nominee deserves the award as well as a copy of the nominee's CV. Self-nominations are welcome.

Please send a single document containing all materials (as either a PDF or MS Word document) to Awards Committee Chair Crystal Park. Deadline for the current cycle of awards is February 28, to be given the subsequent year.

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