Holy Cross Professor Named President, Division of Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology, American Psychological Association

WORCESTER, Mass. – Suzanne R. Kirschner, associate professor of psychology at the College of the Holy Cross, has begun her one-year post as president of the Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (24) of the American Psychological Association (APA). Division 24 of the APA is the largest body of psychologists in the world concerned with theoretical and philosophical topics in psychology; Kirschner served as the division's president-elect from 2003-2004.

A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1996, Kirschner teaches courses in cultural psychology and in the history and philosophy of psychology. She is the author of The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis (Cambridge University Press, 1996), as well as numerous articles that explore how psychological theories and practices are shaped by social and cultural forces. In addition, she has served on the editorial boards of several journals and book series, including Theory and Psychology and Ethos.

In 2001, Kirschner received the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. She has served on the executive boards of the Society for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association and the Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (24) of the American Psychological Association.

A resident of Cambridge, Mass., Kirschner earned her Ed.D. from Harvard University, where she taught in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard College and was a research fellow in social medicine at Harvard Medical School.