Award Winners

The Society for Research in Psychopathology presents four awards each year.

Joseph Zubin Award
The Society for Research in Psychopathology instituted an award given each Fall to one deserving individual for lifetime contributions to the understanding of psychopathology. The first award was given in 1987 to Dr. Joseph Zubin. In 1990, the organization’s annual award was officially named the Joseph Zubin Award. Listed below are the the most recent winners of the award.

- 2022:
  - Deanna Barch, Washington University St. Louis
- 2021:
  - Barbara Cornblatt, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
- 2020:
  - (No award, meeting cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
- 2019:
  - Dan Klein, Stony Brook University

Smadar Levin Award
The Smadar Levin Award was created to honor the memory of Smadar Levin, who left a lasting mark on psychopathology research before her untimely death. The award is given at the Annual Meeting each year to the graduate student(s) or other predoctoral individual(s) who makes the most outstanding poster presentation. Up to five other strong poster presentations receive SRP Travel Awards.

- 2022:
  - Clara Freeman, McGill University
  - Travel Awards:
    - Bronwen Grocott, University of British Columbia
    - Margo Menkes, University of Michigan
    - John Purcell, Minneapolis VA
    - Ian Raugh, University of Georgia
    - Audrey Stromberg, University of Michigan
- 2021:
  - Erik Nook, Harvard University
  - Travel Awards:
    - Shannon Glasgow, Stony Brook University
    - Grant Jones, Harvard University
    - Jaisal Merchant, Washington University
    - Jamilah Silver, Stony Brook University
    - Alainna Wen, University of Notre Dame
    - Bita Zareian, University of British Columbia
- 2020:
  - (No award, meeting cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
- 2019:
  - Qimin Liu, Vanderbilt University
  - Travel Awards:
    - Salahadin Lotfi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    - Rebecca Fortgang, Harvard University

Early Career Award
The Early Career Award was created to recognize exceptional young scholars in the field of psychopathology, who have shown considerable promise and productivity in the formative years of their career.

- 2022:
  - Dylan Gee, Yale University
- 2021:
  - Anna Weinberg, McGill University
  - Aiden Wright, University of Pittsburgh
- 2020:
  - Scott Vrieze, University of Minnesota
- 2019:
  - Laura Germine, Harvard Medical School

John Neale Sustained Mentorship Award
The John Neale Sustained Mentorship Award was created to recognize an exceptional scholar in the field of psychopathology who has throughout her/his career demonstrated continuous dedication to mentoring students, post-docs, and faculty in the field.

- 2022:
  - Gregory A. Miller, UCLA
- 2021:
  - Will Spaulding, University of Nebraska Lincoln
- 2020:
  - Lee Anna Clark, University of Notre Dame
- 2019:
  - David Watson, University of Notre Dame

President’s Award
The SRP President’s Award was created to encourage and facilitate the participation of young scholars from diverse backgrounds and from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the society to join the organization and to participate in and present at SRP’s annual convention.

- 2022
  - Gifty Ayawvi, University of Georgia
  - Anh Dao, Vanderbilt University
  - Haley Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
  - Beier Yao, Michigan State University
  - Yinghao Zhang, Stony Brook University
- 2021:
  - Katrina Aberizk, Emory University
  - Shuquen Chen, Teacher’s College, Columbia University
  - Grant Jones, Harvard University
  - Lillian Li, Northwestern University
  - Jamilah Silver, Stony Brook University
- 2020:
  - (No awards, meeting cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
- 2019:
  - Shirley Wang, Harvard University
  - Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, Stony Brook University
  - Esther Palacio-Barrios, University of Pittsburgh
  - Susan Kuo, University of Pittsburgh
  - Sonia Bansal, University of Maryland

Scholarship Award

- 2022
  - Simone Sanders, Georgia State University
  - Shuquan Chen, Columbia University
  - Riley McDanal, Stony Brook University
- 2021:
  - Dominique Black, Medical University of South Carolina
  - Karen Tang, Dalhousie University
  - Kevin Narine, William James College

Diversity Equity and Inclusion Poster Award

- 2022:
  - Shayan Asadi, University of Michigan
  - (Jenny Shen, Stony Brook University, honorable mention)
- 2021:
  - Natalia Drobotenko, Queen’s University
  - Thien-An Le, Capital OCD & Anxiety Practice

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