2025 SSHD Award Winners
The award categories are:
1. DISTINGUISHED LIFETIME CAREER AWARD. This award is designed to honor a scholar in the physical or social sciences whose work has made a substantial, lifetime and sustained contribution to the understanding of significant and critical aspects of human development.
Winners:
Carolyn Aldwin
Deborah Johnson
2. EARLY CAREER AWARD. This award is designed to honor an early career scholar whose work has made a significant contribution to the understanding of significant and critical aspects of human development.
Winner:
Stephanie Wilson
3. ERIN PHELPS AWARD. SSHD has established the Erin Phelps Award to honor both her and the best article published in the last two years. Erin was a seminal editor for Research in Human Development and ably guided the publication to prominence.
Winning Papers:
Centeno, B., Bayazitli, I., Purnell, S., Bravo, D. Y., & Mello, Z. R. (2023). Colorism Unveiled: Examining How Skin Color Discrimination is Associated with Academic Achievement, Mental Health,and Substance Use Among Latinx Adolescents
Liu, Q. (2023) Associations Between Early Material Hardship and Behavioral Self-Regulation Development Across Childhood: A Person-Centered Approach
Diversity Science Award Categories
4. JAMES JACKSON AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS. This award emphasizes significant efforts in the study of underserved communities and social justice, especially when focused on work that implements positive change in those communities or substantively advances Diversity Science within human development theoretically, conceptually, or methodologically. Innovation in these areas or policy-related service to the field will be strongly considered. Scholars applying for this award are more advanced in their careers, at least 7 years post Ph.D.
Winner:
Michael Cunningham
The Diversity Science Graduate Student Award is meant to recognize, promote, and highlight significant research that explicitly centers on diverse populations where race, culture, language, ethno-religious, or other intersectional identities (i.e., LGBTQIA, disability, first generation) are considered, and that makes exceptional contributions to human development across any stage(s) of the lifespan. Research that is on the cusp of new directions in Diversity Science will be prioritized for this award.
Winners: