Awards

Books or articles published in the current calendar year may be eligible for a Distinguished Publication Award to be conferred in August of the year following publication. Awards are given to published work that makes significant and substantial contributions to research and theory that advances our understanding of the psychology of women and/or gender, and promotes the goals of the Association for Women in Psychology. Announcement of the award is made at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association.

Any AWP member can nominate publications for the DPA; self-nominations are welcome. On occasion, the DPA committee also honors feminist psychologists with the Distinguished Career Award.

Deadline: May 15th

Submissions or Questions: Ella Ben Hagai, ebenhagai@fullerton.edu

Eligibility and Nominations:

Award given every few years by the Distinguished Publication Award (DPA) committee to honor a former DPA winner. The Distinguished Career award is based on a career of books and articles that make a significant, substantial, and sustaining contribution to research and theory advancing our understanding of the psychology of women and promote the goals of the Association for Women in Psychology.

Deadline: February 1

Submissions or Questions: Ella Ben Hagai, ebenhagai@fullerton.edu

Eligibility and Nominations:

The Association for Women in Psychology honors those who have mentored others in the name of our generous and kind foremother Florence Denmark. AWP presents this award to a feminist leader who continues in Florence's footsteps by providing mentorship and inspiration to others.

The recipient will be a mentor who continuously provides feminist support, supervision and guidance to undergraduate or graduate students in psychology. The award will be announced during the AWP yearly conference.

Deadline: February 1st

Submissions or Questions:
Kat Quina (kquina@me.com) and Mala Matacin (matacin@hartford.edu)

The award was established through a generous founding contribution from Oliva Espín, a long time AWP member and feminist scholar. The award recognizes the work of feminists who are making important contributions to practice, education and training, and/or scholarship in the areas of (a) Gender and Immigration and (b) Ethnicity, Religion, and Sexual Orientation.

Oliva’s life long contributions to each of these areas of feminist practice and scholarship have been significant. AWP is pleased to partner with Oliva to recognize and support ongoing work in these important areas.

Nominations and submissions may be made on the basis of noteworthy contributions to (a) practice, (b) education and training, and/or (c) scholarship (presented, published, or unpublished in APA-style publication-ready format) in one of the following two areas: Gender and Immigration or the intersection of Ethnicity, Religion, and Sexual Orientation.

Deadline: December 31

Submissions: Direct materials and questions to Kayla Weiner, at kmweinerphd@gmail.com.

Eligibility: Manuscripts (conference papers, dissertations, journal articles, or other manuscripts) can be unpublished, under review, accepted for publication or published. (Note: If you are submitting a published manuscript for consideration, please provide full citation) Both sole and jointly authored papers are eligible. Manuscripts of less than 50 pages are preferred, but longer manuscripts are acceptable; however, no books will be considered. Members and nonmembers of the Association for Women in Psychology will be considered equally.  

Deadline: August 15

Review: Submissions must be made by manuscript author(s) to Lhyers@wcupa.edu by 11:59pm (Eastern Standard Time) on August 15.

Please include two word documents in your submission, one document containing the manuscript with no identifying information (including only the title, abstract, and manuscript body) and a second document containing contact information (i.e., author name(s) and contact information along with the title, abstract, and manuscript body). A panel of Association for Women in Psychology committee members will review the anonymous manuscripts. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of sound methodology, clarity of writing, and relevance to the advancement of the psychology of lesbians.

Eligibility and Nominations: This award intends to recognize, further the development of, and honor distinguished scholarship in the field of the psychology of Jewish Women. Theoretical papers, creative projects and research papers will be considered. Papers which have been submitted for publication or presented at a professional meeting are eligible, as well as papers which have been previously published or accepted for publication.

Deadline: December 31st

Send Nominations to:  kmweinerphd@gmail.com

Eligibility and Nominations:
We invite empirical, theoretical, and applied papers and book chapters that contribute significantly to the understanding of the psychology of women of color.

Manuscripts must be by and about women of color; we consider jointly authored manuscripts if the first author is a woman of color. Papers and book chapters should be approximately journal length, written in APA manuscript style, and publication-ready (i.e., no working drafts). We welcome papers and book chapters that are unpublished, previously published, presented at professional conferences, or manuscripts submitted for publication.

Review: A diverse panel of AWP members will conduct a masked review (except when reviewing published work). Reviewers will consider the following criteria in their reviews: creativity, sound methodology, clarity of presentation, contribution of new knowledge, and importance to advancement of the psychology of women of color.

We ask that the award recipient must be available to present the manuscript at the upcoming Association for Women in Psychology annual conference. AWP will waive your registration fees to facilitate this.

Deadline: November 30th 

Submission Procedures:
Please send your submissions electronically to the Women of Color Coordinator, Dr. Jameta Nicole Barlow (jnbarlow@gwu.edu)

Eligibility and Nomination Process: Christine Blasey-Ford Woman of Courage Award was established to recognize and celebrate feminist leaders who have demonstrated the quality of political courage in standing up and speaking truth to power, in order to take action against injustice, discrimination, or harm. The inaugural award was presented to Christine Blasey-Ford at the 50th Annual Association for Women in Psychology Conference in Newport, RI.  Any individual who has acted on a local or national level is eligible for this award.

Deadline: December 31st.

Submissions or Questions:
Kat Quina - kquina@me.com
Kayla Weiner - kmweinerphd@gmail.com

Established in 2019, this award honors Dr. Susan L. Morrow who changed the landscape of feminist multicultural qualitative research in psychology. The LOVA award committee invites nominations (self-nominations, or nominations for others are welcome) for feminist helping professionals who are also engaged in community organizing, activism, and/or action research. 

The winner of this award will give an invited presentation as part of a concurrent session at the AWP annual conference.  

Eligibility and Nomination Process:

Eligibility and Nominations:

Purpose:The Association for Women in Psychology encourages submissions of theoretical and empirical manuscripts that address the psychology gender and sexual minorities, including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. Manuscripts focusing on any topic relevant to the psychology of gender and sexual minorities are invited.

Eligibility: Individual and jointly authored manuscripts are eligible. Manuscripts (conference papers, dissertations, journal articles, or other manuscripts) can be unpublished, under review, accepted for publication or published. (Note: If you are submitting a published manuscript for consideration, please provide full citation). Manuscripts not more than 50 pages are recommended; however, longer manuscripts are also eligible for review. Entire books are not eligible. Members and nonmembers of the Association for Women in Psychology are eligible to apply.  

Deadline: August 15

Evaluation: Submissions must be made by manuscript author(s) to Erin Hipple, eehipple@gmail.com by 11:59pm (Central Standard Time) on August 15, 2025. Please include two word documents in your submission, one document containing the manuscript with no identifying information (including only the title, abstract, and manuscript body) and a second document containing contact information (i.e., author name(s) and contact information along with the title, abstract, and manuscript body). A panel of Association for Women in Psychology committee members will review the anonymous manuscripts.

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of sound methodology, clarity of writing, and relevance to the advancement of the psychology of gender and sexual minorities.

All posters accepted for presentation at the annual AWP conference are eligible for the award if a student is the first author. Students, for the sake of this award, are defined as currently enrolled graduate or undergraduate students or individuals within one year of earning their undergraduate degree even if they are not currently enrolled in a graduate program (e.g., a student presenting their honors project).

The co-coordinators of the Researchers’ Caucus work with the conference organizers to identify posters that meet this requirement. Criteria include the overall quality of the research and its relevance to feminist psychology as well as the clarity with which the background, method, results, and conclusions are presented on the poster. Visual presentation will also be evaluated.