Convention Legacy Program

The Annual Convention Legacy honoree will be selected each year by the SPSP Convention Committee. This program honors luminary figures in social and personality psychology. The theme of Legacy program is to trace the impact of the senior scholar’s seminal contribution (or body of work) to contemporary work through a series of events as follows.

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This year's recipient

Hazel Rose Markus headshot
Hazel Rose Markus
Stanford SPARQ/Stanford University

Hazel Rose Markus is a social and cultural psychologist whose research examines how our many intersecting cultures shape selves and the role of these selves in regulating behavior. Her work investigates how cultures of nation, region, gender, social class, race, ethnicity, religion, and occupation influence thought, feeling, and action. Markus is the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Recent research focuses on sociocultural variation in agency and on interventions that can remove barriers and foster agency.

As co-faculty director of Stanford SPARQ, she partners with practitioners in health, media, education, economic development, and the criminal justice system to catalyze culture change. She received her B.A. from California State University at San Diego and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She is the recipient of the American Psychological Association's award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution, the Donald T. Campbell award from SPSP for contributions to social psychology, and the APS William James Award for lifetime achievement for basic research.

Markus is the former President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy and the National Academy of Sciences.

About the Program

Legacy Symposium

This is a symposium that pairs the honored figure with several active researchers whose work builds upon the legacy’s work. The luminary will have the opportunity to address the audience in whatever format they would like for part of the symposium’s allotted time. The rest of the symposium time would be devoted to presentations by the contemporary researchers who would present more traditional research talks that highlight how their work can be traced back to the honored guest’s seminal contribution(s).

Legacy Lunch

Directly following the symposium, the Legacy will host a lunch for his or her academic legacies (e.g., students and students’ students, etc.), major contributors to the research area as appropriate, and other guests as selected by the honoree. This year (2022) we will celebrate honoring both Hazel Rose Markus as this year’s honoree as well as Claude Steele (2021 Legacy honoree).

Past Recipients

2021

Claude Steele

2020

Phoebe Ellsworth

2019

Phillip Shaver

2018

Alice Eagly

2017

Ravenna M. Helson

2016

Walter Mischel

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