SPA Lifetime Achievement Award

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.

2023 Recipient

Dr. Tanya Luhrmann

Dr. Luhrmann is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University

2022 Recipient

Dr. Thomas Csordas

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. Carol Worthman

 

Dr. Worthman is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emerita at Emory University 

 

2020 Recipient

Dr. Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good 

Dr. DelVecchio Good is Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Emerita at Harvard University

2019 Recipient

Dr. Bradd Shore

Dr. Shore is the Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus at Emory University

2017 Recipient

Dr. Byron Good

Dr. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University

2016 Recipient

Dr. Richard Schweder

Dr. Schweder is the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development

2015 Recipient

Dr. Vincent Crapanzano 

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

Dr. Jean Lave is Professor of Education and Geography at the University of California Berkeley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Anthony F.C. Wallace

Dr. Wallace was the Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania

2011 Recipient 

Dr. Gananath Obeyesekere

Dr. Obeyesekere is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Princeton University

2009 Recipient

Dr. Naomi Quinn

Dr. Quinn was Professor Emerita of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University

2007 Recipient

Dr. Robert Edgerton

Dr. Edgerton was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of California Los Angeles

2005 Recipients

Dr. Jean Briggs 

Dr. Briggs was Professor Emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Roy D’Andrade

Dr. D’Andrade was Professor Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego

2003 Recipients

Dr. Theodore Schwartz 

Dr Schwartz was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California at San Diego

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Walter Goldschmidt

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. Robert A. LeVine

Dr. LeVine was Professor Emeritus of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

1991 Recipient

Dr. Melford Spiro

Dr. Spiro was Founding Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at San Diego

1989 Recipients 

Dr. Beatrice Whiting

Dr. Whiting was Professor Emerita of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. John Whiting 

Dr. Whiting was Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at Harvard University