Dean Sapiro Wins Harold Lasswell Award
Dean and Prof of Political Science Gina Sapiro will receive the International Society for Political Psychology’s Harold Lasswell Award, which is a lifetime achievement award for “distinguished scientific contributions in the field of political psychology.”
As the ISPP website says, “It is named for Harold Lasswell, one of the first to apply psychology to the analysis of politics. He was, thereby, also one of the first to encounter the problems of interdisciplinary work: because of resistance to his ideas, from 1937 to 1950 not a single article of his was published in a political science journal. However, he continued to publish (in psychological and psychiatric journals, and books), and so ultimately he won recognition, being elected President of the American Political Science Association in 1955. He taught at Chicago, Yale, CUNY, Temple, and finally Columbia.”
The ISPP, founded in 1978, is an interdisciplinary organization representing all fields of inquiry concerned with exploring the relationships between political and psychological processes. Members include psychologists, political scientists, psychiatrists, historians, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, as well as journalists, government officials and others. The Society is also international, with members from all regions of the world: the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
The list of past winners below is a most distinguished group. Note that in 1986 Sapiro received the ISPP’s Erik Erikson Early Career Award (for scholars within 10 years of Ph.D.).
The award will be given at the annual meeting this summer in San Diego, and Sapiro will be expected to deliver the Lasswell lecture at the summer 2016 meeting in Warsaw.
Past Winners
2014 M. Kent Jennings
2013 Bert Klandermans
2012 Ervin Staub
2011 Daniel Bar-Tal
2010 Tom Pettigrew
2009 Steven R. Brown
2008 Philip Tetlock
2007 David Winter
2006 Jim Sidanius
2005 Milton Lodge
2004 Robert Jervis
2003 Marilynn Brewer
2002 John L. Sullivan
2001 Peter Suedfeld
2000 Fred I. Greenstein
1999 William McGuire
1998 Paul Sniderman
1997 Betty Glad
1996 Robert P. Abelson
1995 David O. Sears
1994 Lucian Pye
1993 M. Brewster Smith
1992 Dean G. Pruitt
1991 Robert E. Lane
1990 Philip E. Converse
1989 Robert C. Tucker
1988 Milton Rokeach
1987 Jerome D. Frank
1986 Anatol Rapaport
1985 Alexander George
1984 James MacGregor Burns
1983 Myres McDougal
1982 Leonard Doob
1981 Erik Erikson
1980 Angus Campbell
1979 Nathan Leites