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SRCD Senior Distinguished Contributions Awardees

Established in 1977, this collection of awards recognizes SRCD members who have distinguished themselves over a sustained period of time in at least one domain of research and service. Therefore, this award is ordinarily given to more senior SRCD members.

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Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development

2023

  • Alison Gopnik
  • Charles A. Nelson

2021

  • Carolyn Zahn-Waxler

    2019

    • Edward Tronick

      2017

      • Renee Baillargeon
      • Stephen P. Hinshaw
      • Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek
      • Roberta M. Golinkoff

        2015

        • Marc H. Bornstein
        • Nancy Eisenberg
        • Nathan A. Fox
        • Nora S. Newcombe

          2013

          • Judy DeLoache
          • Michael Lewis
          • Stephen Ceci

            2011

            • Dante Cicchetti
            • Sandra Graham

              2009

              • Megan R. Gunnar
              • Janellen Huttenlocher
              • Ross D. Parke
              • Mary K. Rothbart
              • L. Alan Sroufe

                2007

                • Rochel Gelman
                • Qicheng Jing
                • Vonnie McLoyd

                  2005

                  • Lea Pulkkinen
                  • Arnold Sameroff
                  • Robert Plomin
                  • Rachel Keen

                    2003

                    • Lois Bloom
                    • William Greenough
                    • Marshall Haith
                    • Lee Robins

                      2001

                      • Judith F. Dunn
                      • Glen H. Elder
                      • Carolyn Rovee-Collier

                        1999

                        • Willard W. Hartup
                        • Katherine Nelson
                        • David N. Magnusson
                        • Emmy E. Werner

                          1997

                          • Doris R. Entwisle
                          • Jacqueline J. Goodnow
                          • Gilbert Gotleib
                          • Gerald Patterson

                            1995

                            • John H. Flavell
                            • Norman Garmezy
                            • E. Mavis Hetherington
                            • Hanus Papousek

                              1993

                              • Stella Chess & Alexander Thomas
                              • Arthur Hawley Parmelee, Jr.
                              • Marian Radke-Yarrow
                              • Harold W. Stevenson

                                1991

                                • Frances Graham
                                • Robert Hinde
                                • Harriet Rhinegold

                                  1989

                                  • Jerome Bruner
                                  • Jerome Kagan
                                  • Michael Rutter

                                    1987

                                    • Urie Bronfenbrenner
                                    • Eleanor Maccoby
                                    • Beatrice Whiting

                                      1985

                                      • Mary Ainsworth
                                      • Orville Brimm, Jr.
                                      • Lawrence Kohlberg

                                        1983

                                        • Nancy Bayley
                                        • Konrad Lorenz
                                        • Robert Sears
                                        • Milton Senn (special history award)

                                          1981

                                          • John Bowlby
                                          • Eleanor Gibson
                                          • Barbel Inhelder

                                            1979

                                            • Harry Harlow
                                            • Donald Hebb
                                            • Julius Richmond

                                              1977 (first time)

                                              • Robert Havighurst
                                              • David Levy
                                              • Myrtle McGraw
                                              • Lester Sontag
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                                              Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy & Practice in Child Development

                                              2023

                                              • Hirokazu Yoshikawa

                                              2021

                                              • Michael E. Lamb

                                                2019

                                                • Deborah Lowe Vandell

                                                  2017

                                                  • Richard M. Lerner
                                                  • Mary Bruce Webb

                                                    2015

                                                    • Greg J. Duncan

                                                      2013

                                                      • John Love

                                                        2011

                                                        • P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

                                                          2009

                                                          • Mark T. Greenberg
                                                          • James J. Heckman

                                                            2007

                                                            • Sharon & Craig Ramey
                                                            • Jack Shonkoff
                                                            • Ruby Takanishi

                                                              2005

                                                              • Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
                                                              • Felton Earls
                                                              • Frank Furstenberg

                                                                2003

                                                                • Leon Eisenberg
                                                                • Stephen Ceci
                                                                • Robert McCall
                                                                • Daniel Olweus

                                                                  2001

                                                                  • Aletha C. Huston
                                                                  • Henry N. Ricciuti

                                                                    1999

                                                                    • Beatrix A. Hamburg
                                                                    • Sheldon H. White

                                                                      1997

                                                                      • Kenneth B. Clark
                                                                      • David A. Hamburg

                                                                        1995

                                                                        • John J. Conger
                                                                        • Robert Johns Haggerty

                                                                          1993

                                                                          • T. Berry Brazelton
                                                                          • Betty Caldwell

                                                                            1991

                                                                            • Edward Zigler
                                                                             
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                                                                            Distinguished Contributions to the Lives of Children

                                                                            2013

                                                                            • Melinda Gates

                                                                            2009

                                                                            • T. Berry Brazelton
                                                                            • Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State
                                                                            • Robert J. Haggerty

                                                                            2007

                                                                            • Peggy Charren

                                                                            2005

                                                                            • Duane Alexander
                                                                            • Rosalynn Carter

                                                                            2003

                                                                            • Irving Harris

                                                                            1999

                                                                            • Evelyn K. Moore

                                                                            1995

                                                                            • Children’s Defense Fund— Marian Wright Edelman Children’s Television workshop

                                                                             

                                                                             

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                                                                            Distinguished Contributions to the Society for Research in Child Development

                                                                            2019

                                                                            • Martha Zaslow

                                                                            2013

                                                                            • Michael Cunningham

                                                                            2011

                                                                            • J. Steven Reznick

                                                                            2009

                                                                            • Algeo O. Harrison-Hale
                                                                            • Aletha C. Huston

                                                                            2007

                                                                            • John W. Hagen

                                                                            2005

                                                                            • Patricia Settimi

                                                                            2003

                                                                            • Mark Appelbaum

                                                                            2001

                                                                            • Barbara Kahn

                                                                            1999

                                                                            • Alberta Engvall Siegel

                                                                            1997

                                                                            • Dorothy H. Eichorn
                                                                               
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                                                                            Distinguished Contributions to Education in Child Development

                                                                            2011

                                                                            • Deborah Phillips

                                                                            2009

                                                                            • Kathleen A. McCartney

                                                                            2005

                                                                            • W. Andrew Collins

                                                                            1999

                                                                            • William Kessen

                                                                            1997

                                                                            • Paul H. Mussen

                                                                             

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                                                                            Distinguished International Contributions to Child Development

                                                                            2011

                                                                            • Patrice L. Engle
                                                                            • Stella Vosniadou

                                                                            2009

                                                                            • Marc H. Bornstein

                                                                            2007

                                                                            • Marinus van IJzendoorn
                                                                            • Abraham Sagi-Schwartz
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                                                                            Distinguished Contributions to Understanding International, Cultural and Contextual Diversity in Child Development

                                                                            2023

                                                                            • Ellen E. Pinderhughes

                                                                            2021

                                                                            • Diane L. Hughes

                                                                              2019

                                                                              • Heidi Keller

                                                                                2017

                                                                                • Robert N. Serpell

                                                                                  2015

                                                                                  • Oscar A. Barbarin
                                                                                  • Kenneth H. Rubin

                                                                                    2013

                                                                                    • Patricia Greenfield
                                                                                    • Velma McBride
                                                                                    • Barbara Rogoff

                                                                                      2011

                                                                                      • Michael Cole
                                                                                      • Margaret Beale Spencer

                                                                                        2009

                                                                                        • Cynthia Garcia Coll
                                                                                        • Charles M. Super & Sara Harkness
                                                                                         
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                                                                                        Distinguished Contributions to Mentoring of Developmental Scientists

                                                                                        2023

                                                                                        • Pamela Marie Cole

                                                                                        2017

                                                                                        • Cynthia Garcia Coll

                                                                                          2015

                                                                                          • Todd D. Little
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                                                                                          Distinguished Contributions to Interdisciplinary Understanding of Child Development

                                                                                          2023

                                                                                          • Laurie E. Cutting

                                                                                          2021

                                                                                          • Patricia M. Greenfield

                                                                                            2019

                                                                                            • Robert Crosnoe
                                                                                            • Bruce J. Ellis

                                                                                              2017

                                                                                              • Gary W. Evans
                                                                                              • Thomas S. Weisner

                                                                                                2015

                                                                                                • W. Thomas Boyce
                                                                                                • Carol M. Worthman
                                                                                                 
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                                                                                                SRCD Early Career Research Contributions Awardees

                                                                                                Established in 2002, this award is given to SRCD members who have distinguished themselves as researchers and scholars, as evidenced through research, publications, and scholarly activity. The nominee should be no more than six years beyond the Ph.D. or equivalent degree.

                                                                                                2023

                                                                                                • Maria M. Arredondo
                                                                                                • Laura Elenbaas
                                                                                                • Ursula Moffitt
                                                                                                • Santiago Morales
                                                                                                • Rachel R. Romeo

                                                                                                2021

                                                                                                • Riana Elyse Anderson
                                                                                                • Eddie Brummelman
                                                                                                • Daphna Buchsbaum
                                                                                                • Caitlin Cavanagh
                                                                                                • Steven O. Roberts

                                                                                                  2019

                                                                                                  • Sarah A. O. Gray
                                                                                                  • Larisa Heiphetz
                                                                                                  • Camelia E. Hostinar
                                                                                                  • Matthew D. Lerner
                                                                                                  • Jennifer Silvers

                                                                                                    2017

                                                                                                    • Cecilia S. Cheung
                                                                                                    • Elisabeth Conradt
                                                                                                    • Colleen M. Ganley
                                                                                                    • Katherine McAuliffe
                                                                                                    • Haley A. Vlach
                                                                                                    • David S. Yeager

                                                                                                      2015

                                                                                                      • Andrea Danese
                                                                                                      • Anna D. Johnson
                                                                                                      • Darby Saxbe
                                                                                                      • Jed T. Elison
                                                                                                      • Ming-Te Wang

                                                                                                        2013

                                                                                                        • Aprile Benner
                                                                                                        • Andres De Los Reyes
                                                                                                        • Jelena Obradovic
                                                                                                        • Jennifer Pfeifer
                                                                                                        • Felix Warneken

                                                                                                          2011

                                                                                                          • Catherine P. Bradshaw
                                                                                                          • Brian M. D'Onofrio
                                                                                                          • Tobias Grossmann
                                                                                                          • Candice L. Odgers
                                                                                                          • Laura E. Schulz

                                                                                                            2009

                                                                                                            • Carol M. O'Connor
                                                                                                            • Victoria Talwar
                                                                                                            • Noel A. Card
                                                                                                            • Daniel Ansari

                                                                                                              2007

                                                                                                              • Simona Ghetti
                                                                                                              • Sara Jaffee
                                                                                                              • Ariel Knafo
                                                                                                              • Glenn I. Roisman

                                                                                                                2005

                                                                                                                • Amanda Rose
                                                                                                                • Ulrich Muller
                                                                                                                • Qi Wang
                                                                                                                • Robert Crosnoe

                                                                                                                  2003

                                                                                                                  • Ariel Kalil
                                                                                                                  • John Spencer
                                                                                                                   
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                                                                                                                  SRCD Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awardees

                                                                                                                  Created in 2008, the SRCD Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards are given for dissertations completed in the previous year that are unusually noteworthy.  This award comes with a $500 honorarium and nominations are submitted by the mentor of the dissertation thesis.

                                                                                                                  2023

                                                                                                                  • Lior Abramson
                                                                                                                  • Meg D. Bishop
                                                                                                                  • Pearl Han Li
                                                                                                                  • Trinh Nguyen
                                                                                                                  • Alyssa R. Palmer

                                                                                                                  2021

                                                                                                                  • Lorena Aceves
                                                                                                                  • Josefina Bañales
                                                                                                                  • Fernanda L. Cross
                                                                                                                  • Brie M. Reid

                                                                                                                    2019

                                                                                                                    • Fiorella L. Carlos Chavez
                                                                                                                    • Adam D. Fine
                                                                                                                    • Lisa B. Hurwitz
                                                                                                                    • Judith C. Scott

                                                                                                                      2017

                                                                                                                      • Arya Ansari
                                                                                                                      • Chelsea L. Derlan
                                                                                                                      • Emily Fyfe
                                                                                                                      • Julian Jara-Ettinger
                                                                                                                      • Jessica P. Lougheed
                                                                                                                      • Kristen Tummeltshammer

                                                                                                                        2015

                                                                                                                        • Natalie H. Brito
                                                                                                                        • Camelia E. Hostinar
                                                                                                                        • Sergey Kornilov
                                                                                                                        • Laura Kurdziel
                                                                                                                        • Yalda T. Uhls

                                                                                                                          2013

                                                                                                                          • Rachel Farr
                                                                                                                          • Eva Telzer
                                                                                                                          • Christina Weiland
                                                                                                                          • David Yeager

                                                                                                                            2011

                                                                                                                            • Krista Byers-Heinlein
                                                                                                                            • Rachel G. Lucas-Thompson
                                                                                                                            • Carrie L. Masten
                                                                                                                            • Kasey C. Soska
                                                                                                                            • Amrisha Vaish

                                                                                                                              2009

                                                                                                                              • Jessica S. Horst
                                                                                                                              • Felix A. Warneken

                                                                                                                              Honorable Mentions:

                                                                                                                              • Andrea Gonzalez
                                                                                                                              • Aaron P. Metzger
                                                                                                                              • Brian T. Wymbs