Diversity Graduate Travel Award

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology offers a limited number of awards to support students traveling to its annual convention. Awards from the SPSP Diversity Fund are devoted to increase diversity within personality and social pychology.

Award Info

Description

About the Award

SPSP has established a fund devoted to increasing diversity within personality and social psychology. As part of this initiative, eligible graduate students are invited to apply for travel awards to attend the SPSP annual conference. Travel award winners will receive $500 to be used to cover conference-related expenses, including transportation, lodging, food, and conference registration. Additional Honorable Mention recipients may be honored with a lesser award amount.

SPSP is an international organization and will consider applications from students both inside and outside the United States. All applicants should explain how their participation at the conference advances SPSP's goal of enhancing diversity.

The SPSP Diversity and Climate Committee will also host a reception for award recipients during the conference (time and location to be announced). Award winners are required to attend this reception, where they will have the opportunity to meet with an admired scholar in social and personality psychology of their own choosing.

Students who have not previously received a travel award may apply for both a Diversity Travel Award and a Graduate Student Travel Award in the same year. A student will only be selected to receive one of the awards.

Selection Process

Award decisions will be based on the excellence of the applicant’s scholarly record.

Eligibility

Applicants for the award are required to be SPSP members at the time of submission.
Applicants must be enrolled in a graduate program with an emphasis in social/personality psychology at the time of the convention.
Applicants must be a member of an underrepresented group in social/personality psychology (these groups include, but are not necessarily limited to, ethnic and racial minorities; first-generation college students; lesbian, gay and bisexual students; transgender students; and students with a physical disability).
Applicants cannot have previously won an SPSP Graduate Student Travel Award or an SPSP Diversity Fund Graduate Travel Award.

How to Apply

Submision Requirements

A current vitae (CV)
Presentation abstract for a submitted conference presentation (poster, symposia or data blitz). This is not a requirement, but priority may be given to students presenting at the conference.
A 250-word essay in which you describe your research interests, career goals, and how you would benefit from a Diversity Fund Graduate Student Travel Award

How to Submit

Submissions for the 2020 convention are now closed.

Past Recipients

2020 Convention

Desiree Eileen Aleibar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Angel David Armenta, University of Texas at El Paso
Veronica N.Z. Bergstrom, University of Toronto
Scott Douglas Blain, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Shauna Marie Bowes, Emory University
Jessica Renee Bray, University of Texas at El Paso
Caitlin Cassidy, Villanova University
Richelle-Joy Chia, Nanyang Technological University
Yeeun Choi, University of Alabama
Rebecca Cipollina, Rutgers University
Andrew Cortopassi, University of Connecticut
Jordan Daley, Northwestern University
Diag Davenport, Chicago Booth
Trisha Ann Dehrone, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Salena Marie Diaz, Radford University
Mengchen Dong, VU Amsterdam
Fred Duong, Northeastern University
Olivia Anne Foster-Gimbel, NYU Stern School of Business
Azaadeh Goharzad, University of Delaware
Vanessa Hatton, Rutgers University
Amani Holder-Dixon, Indiana University - Bloomington
Sharon H. J. Hou, University of Guelph
M. Fazuan Abdul Karim, IU-PUI
Kalen Charles Kennedy, Marquette University
Rabia Ibrahim Kodapanakkal, Tilburg University
Mayu Koike, The University of Edinburgh
Jacqueline Lechuga, UT El Paso
Hun Whee Lee, Michigan State University
Joshua Leota, University of Alberta
Yuching Lin, University of Virginia
Idalia Veronica Maciel, The University of Texas at Dallas
Marco Marinucci, University of Milano-Bicocca
Joel Eduardo Martinez, Princeton University
Mary Mbaba, George Washington University
Maria Monroy, UC Berkeley
Gregg A. Muragishi, Stanford University
Yee To Ng, The University of Texas at Austin
Tina Nguyen, The Ohio State University
Sukhmani Pal, University of Mississippi
Lindsay Palmer, The Pennsylvania State University
Jun Won Park, Yale University
Tiani Perkins, University of Michigan
Ahuitz Rojas-Sánchez, Université Grenoble-Alpes
Roberto Josiah Rosario, Northwestern University
Rammy Moses Salem, UC Santa Barbara
Jordana Erika Schiralli, University of Toronto
Danyel Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University
Mikaela Spruill, Cornell University
Mehrgol Tiv, McGill University
Meisam Vahedi, University of Houston
Juan Jose Valladares, Lehigh University
Yan Bernardes Vieites, FGV/EBAPE
Kaidi Wu, University of Michigan
Nancy Mengran Xu, Ohio State University
Chunchen Xu, Stanford University
Ayana Younge, UNC Chapel Hill
Cheng Yu, San Francisco State University
Jeanette Zambrano, University of Southern California
Brittany Zaring-Hinkle, University of Texas at San Antonio
Tong Zhou, Shanghai Normal University

Clifton Adamson, University of Central Arkansas
Shahana Ansari, University of Hawaii
Esra Ascigil, University of Michigan
Maura Austin, University of Virginia
Jasmine Beecham, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Carla Branco, ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon
Dominique Burrows, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Anjana Chandran, University of Chicago
Yen-Ping Chang, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Maneeza Dawood, Columbia Univ.
Ajua Duker, Yale University
James Dunlea, Columbia University
Justin Durham, Univ. of Central Oklahoma
Holly Fitzgerald, West Virginia University
Anthony Foster, Texas Tech University
Maya Godbole, CUNY Graduate Center
Joyce He, University of Toronto
Ivan Hernandez, Northwestern University
Lauren Hofschneider, University of California, Los Angeles
Ju Hyung Huh, Sogang University
Hohjin Im, University of California, Irvine
Zunaira Jilani, Wayne State Univ.
Minjoo Joo, Iowa State University
Dashalini Katna, Nanyang Technological University
Sona Kaur, University of California, Santa Cruz
James Kim, University of Toronto
Tran Le, Texas Tech University
Michelle Lee, New York University
Randy Lee, Cornell University
Timothy Lee, University of Kansas

Angelica Leigh, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Usman Liaquat, New York University
Kimberly Martin, University of California, Los Angeles
Thao Nguyen, University of Texas at Austin
Abigail Nissenbaum, Clark University
Isabela Perez, University of California Riverside
Ramona Perry, University of Michigan
Zachary Reese, Univ. of Michigan
Abigail Riemer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Celina Romano, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Daniel Rosenfeld, University of California, Los Angeles
Amanda Rotella, University of Guelph
Estée Rubien-Thomas, Yale University
Carmen Sanchez, Cornell Univ.
Radhika Santhanagopalan, Cornell University
Surizaday Serrano, University of Houston
Anoushka Shahane, Rice University
Adam Stanaland, Duke University
Kamiya Stewart, Tulane University
Brenda Straka, Duke University
Koji Takahashi, University of Michigan
Sophie Tanaka, UCLA
Christopher To, NYU - Stern School of Business
Aeroelay Vinluan, Tufts University
Hannah Volpert-Esmond, University of Missouri
Sze Wang, University of Toronto
Samuel West, Virginia Commonwealth University
Dulce Wilkinson, University of California, Riverside
Jinghui Zhang, Claremont Graduate University

Jesse Acosta, Univ. of Nevada, Reno
Audrey Aday, Univ. of British Columbia
Aerielle Allen, Univ. of Connecticut
Darlingtina Atakere, Univ. of Kansas
Vivienne Badaan, NYU
Lianne Barnes, UCLA
Diane-Jo Bart-Plange, Univ. of Virginia
Jericka Battle, Texas A&M Univ.
R. Bjornsdottir, Univ. of Toronto
Yvana Bocage-Barthélémy, Univ. of Poitiers
Yen-Ping Chang, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nathan Cheek, Princeton Univ.
Susie Chen, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Adriana Colom Cruz, Florida Atlantic Univ.
Tzipporah Dang, Univ. of Chicago
Abdo Elnakouri, Univ. of Waterloo
Hyun Euh, Univ. of Minnesota
Katherine Finnigan, UC Davis
Ana Fonseca, Univ. of Arizona
Janelle Goodwill, Univ. of Michigan
Jonathan Gordils, Univ. of Rochester
Jen Guo, Northwestern Univ.
Tabea Haessler, Univ. of Zurich

Breanne Helmers, Wayne State Univ.
Maria Jones, Emory Univ.
Victor Keller, Michigan State Univ.
Danielle Krusemark, Florida State Univ.
Ebony Lambert, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
Lynda Lin, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Miller, Northwestern Univ.
Gandalf Nicolas, Princeton Univ.
Paolo Palma, Univ. of Western Ontario
Michael Parrish, UCLA
Kenneth Perez, Texas A&M Univ.
Pooya Razavi, Univ. of Oregon
Richard Smith, Graduate Center, CUNY
Michael Snell, Univ. of Georgia
Lining Sun, East China Normal Univ., Ohio State Univ., Stanford Univ.
Sanaz Talaifar, Univ. of Texas at Austin
Brandon Tran, Univ. of California, Riverside
Nadia Vossoughi, Univ. of Michigan
Iris Wang, Univ. of Michigan
Kaitlyn Werner, Carleton Univ.
Jordan Wylie, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Queens College
Jiah Yoo, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

Rob Adelman, Arizona State University
Rafael Aguilera, University of Minnesota
Miriam Alvarez, Univ. of Texas at El Paso
Maira Areguin, California State University, Northridge
Jessica Benson, Rutgers University
Katlin Bentley, Washington University in St. Louis
Benjamin Blankenship, Univ. of Michigan
Malik Boykin, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Justin Brienza, Univ. of Waterloo
Gabriel Camacho, Univ. of Connecticut
Henri Carlo Santos, Harvard University
Linda Chang, HKUST
Karina Corona, University of California, Irvine
Tangier Davis, CSUN
Lucy De Souza, University of British Columbia
John Dennem, New Mexico State Univ.
Michael Doane, Univ. of Nevada, Reno
Cydney Dupree, Yale University
Priscilla Fernandez, Saint Louis Univ.
Abdiel Flores, Columbia University
Fiona Ge, Facebook
Adriana Germano, Univ. of Washington
Amit Goldenberg, Stanford University
Eric Gomez, University of Washington

Fausto Gonzalez, UC Berkeley
Fallon Goodman, George Mason Univ.
Mark Hoffarth, New York University
Olivia Holmes, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
Elif Ikizer, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
Drexler James, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
Karen Key, San Diego State Univ.
Tianyi Li, Univ. of Chicago
Nigel Mantou Lou, Univ. of Alberta
Asia McCleary-Gaddy, University of Vermont
Adriana Medina, Clark University
Pegah Naemi, University of Kansas
Thuy-vy Nguyen, University of Rochester
Yopina Pertiwi, University of Toledo
Miao Qian, University of Toronto
Yang Qu, Stanford University
Jeff Ramdass, Claremont Graduate University
Steven Roberts, Stanford University
Eric Russell, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
Henri C. Santos, Univ. of Waterloo
Heidi Vuletich, Univ. of NC at Chapel Hill
Sarah Ward, Univ. of Missouri - Columbia
Bradley Weisz, California State Univ., Long Beach

Analia Albuja, Rutgers University
Olivia Atherton, University of California Davis
Angela Carey, University of Arizona
Katelynn Carter-Rogers, Maastricht University
Stephanie Chen, University of Michigan
Ben Chun Pam Lam, Iowa State University
Crystal Clarke, New York University
Stephanie Cross, University of Oklahoma
Gregory Davis, Harvard University
Veronica Derricks-Mosher, University of Michigan
Cameron Doyle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Arianne Eason, University of Washington
Jim Everett, University of Oxford
Johanna Folk, George Mason University
S. Mason Garrison, Vanderbilt University
Alexandra Garr-Schultz, Northwestern University
Sa-kiera Hudson, Harvard University
Pui Hung Hui, University of Cambridge
Kyonne Isaac, Princeton University
Morgan Jerald, University of Michigan
Dushiyanthini Kenthirarajah, Duke University
Jinhyung Kim, Texas A&M University
Franki Kung, University of Waterloo
Jennifer LaCosse, Florida State University
Sarah Lamer, University of Denver
Talya Lazerus, Carnegie Mellon University
David Lee, University of Michigan

Ryan Lei, Northwestern University
Mengyao Li, University of Massachusetts
Sai Li, University of Cambridge
Sarah Liu, Personality Aging and Health Lab
Chieh Lu, Nanyang Technological University
Guannan (Jackson) Lu, Columbia University
Heather Maranges, Florida State University
Satia Marotta, Tufts University
Kibby McMahon, Duke University
Yara Mekawi, University of Illinois
Harrison Oakes, University of Waterloo
Irmak Olcaysoy Okten, Lehigh University
Elise Ozier, Indiana University
Christopher Petsko, Northwestern University
Stacy Priniski, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lindsay Roberts, University of Toledo
Hadiya Roderique, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Achala Rodrigo, University of Toronto Scarborough
Julian Rucker, Northwestern University
Andrea Ruybal, Claremont Graduate University
Manuel Salinas, University of Northern Iowa
Elizabeth Seto, Texas A&M University
Holly Shablack, University of Northern Carolina, Chapel Hill
Natasha Thalla, Lehigh University
Christopher To, New York University, Stern School of Business
Phuong Vo, Wayne State University
Carla Zimmerman, Texas A&M University

Contact

For more information on the Diversity Graduate Travel Award, please contact Travis Clark at tclark@spsp.org.

Award Info

About the Award

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Submision Requirements

How to Submit

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Diversity Graduate Travel Award

Award Info

About the Award

Selection Process

Submision Requirements

How to Submit

2020 Convention

Join or Renew a Membership

2021 Convention

Support Our Students