Lifetime Achievement Award
The Society for Psychological Anthropology Lifetime Achievement Award honors career-long contributions to psychological anthropology that have substantially influenced the field and its development. The award seeks to recognize the work of individuals whose sustained involvement in psychological anthropology has had a major impact on research directions, on the wider visibility and relevance of the field, and on the growth of a community of scholarship addressing issues of culture and psychology.
2025 Recipient
Dr. Strauss is the Jean M. Pitzer Professor of Anthropology at Pitzer College.
2024 Recipient
Dr. Douglas Hollan is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA and co-director of the FPR (Foundation for Psychocultural Research)-UCLA Culture, Brain, Development, and Mental Health Program.
2023 Recipient
Dr. Luhrmann is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University.
2022 Recipient
Dr. Csordas is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology, the Dr. James Y. Chan Presidential Chair in Global Health, and Director of the Global Health Institute at the University of California, San Diego
2021 Recipient
Dr. Worthman is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emerita at Emory University.
2020 Recipient
Dr. DelVecchio Good is Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Emerita at Harvard University.
2019 Recipient
Dr. Shore is the Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus at Emory University.
2017 Recipient
Dr. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University.
2016 Recipient
Dr. Schweder is the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development.
2015 Recipient
Dr. Vincent Crapanzano is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
2013 Recipients
Dr. Jean Lave is Professor of Education and Geography at the University of California Berkeley.
Dr. Wallace was the Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.
2011 Recipient
Dr. Obeyesekere was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Princeton University.
2009 Recipient
Dr. Quinn was Professor Emerita of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.
2007 Recipient
Dr. Edgerton was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of California Los Angeles.
2005 Recipients
Dr. Briggs was Professor Emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Dr. D’Andrade was Professor Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego.
2003 Recipients
Dr. Schwartz was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California at San Diego.
Dr. Goldschmidt was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California Los Angeles.
2001 Recipient
Dr. Robert I. Levy was Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at San Diego.
1997 Recipient
Dr. LeVine was Professor Emeritus of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
1991 Recipient
Dr. Spiro was Founding Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at San Diego.
1989 Recipients
Dr. Whiting was Professor Emerita of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Dr. Whiting was Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at Harvard University.