Previous Winners of the

Distinguished Publication Award

2026

2025

2024

2023

To be announced!

  • "We all have Power": Using Photovoice to Document Challenges and Strengths of Lakota Women with Histories of Incarceration — Katie M. Edwards, Emily E. Camp, Tiffani N. Luethke, Ramona Herrington, LaVonne Roach, Maggie Bertsche, Preciouse Trujillo, India Rose Carter-Bolick, Natira Mullet, and Diana Than (Feminist Forensic Psychology)

  • Explaining Penalties and Rewards for Gender Norm Violations: A Unified Theory — Hannah B. Eareckson and Madeline E. Heilman (Sex Roles)

  • The Psychology of PCOS — Stacy Williams (Book; APA)

  • Fiber Arts Require Spatial Skills: How a Stereotypically Feminine Practice Can Help Us Understand Spatial Skills and Improve Spatial Learning — Grace Bennett-Pierre and Elizabeth A. Gunderson (Sex Roles)

  • Unshaved: Resistance and Revolution in Women's Body Hair Politics — Breanne Fahs (Book; University of Washington Press)

  • A Handbook on Counseling African American Women: Psychological Symptoms, Treatments, and Case Studies — Kimber Shelton, Mahlet Endale, and Michelle Lyn (Book; Bloomsbury)

  • Queer Theory and Psychology: Gender, Sexuality, and Transgender Identities — Ella Ben Hagai and Eileen L. Zurbriggen (Book; Springer)

  • Special Issue: Feminist Psychology and Open Science: Challenges and Opportunities — Edited by Jaclyn A. Siegel, Rachel M. Calogero, Asia A. Eaton, and Tomi-Ann Roberts (Psychology of Women Quarterly)

  • Evidence for a Comprehensive Sexuality Education Intervention that Enhances Chinese Adolescents' Sexual Knowledge and Gender Awareness and Empowers Young Women — Zhihong Sa, Li Tian, and Xiying Wang (Sex Roles)

  • Rape Appraisals: Class Mobility, Social Geography, and Sexual Morality Tales in Ghana, South Africa, and Rwanda — C. Shawn McGuffey (Journal of Black Psychology)

2021

2022

  • Islamic Anti-Patriarchal Liberation Psychology: A Framework to Decolonize Psychology for Muslims — Sobia Ali-Faisal (Feminism & Psychology, 2020)

  • A State Census of Unsubmitted Sexual Assault Kits: Comparing Forensic DNA Testing Outcomes by Geographic and Population Density Characteristics — Rebecca Campbell, McKenzie Javorka, Dhruv B. Sharma, Katie Gregory, Matt Opsommer, Kristin Schelling, and Lauren Lu (Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2020)