Diversity Graduate Travel/Registration 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/registration awards to attend the SPSP annual conference. Travel/registration award winners will have the conference registration fee waived. 

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.

Selection Process

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

SPSP does not have a strict definition of diversity. All members are welcome to apply if they feel their background will add to the diversification of SPSP. Please note, any demographic information shared in the application will be viewable by the reviewers assigned to your application. We, however, do not judge applications based upon these criteria.

Applicants cannot have previously won any of the SPSP travel awards (i.e., the International Travel Award, the Graduate Student Travel Award, the Diversity Graduate Travel Award, or the Teacher/Scholar award). 

Applicants may apply for this award together with any other travel award for which they are qualified (see here for a full listing of available travel/registration awards). However, an applicant can receive only one of the awards.

• 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).

Submission Requirements

• Describe your research interest, career goals, and how you would benefit from this award. 

Applications closed

2021 Convention

• Brittany Torrez, Yale University
• Julian Andrew Scheffer, Penn State University
• Minghui Ni, Cornell University
• Aisha L Udochi, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• Sherman (Shiu Man) Kwok, University of Waterloo
• Mr. Connor Emont Leshner, Arizona State University
• Azaadeh Goharzad, University of Delaware
• Ariana Munoz-Salgado, University of Michigan
• Ms. Gina Aurelia Paganini, University of Denver
• David M. Munguia Gomez, University of Chicago, School of Business
• Yunzhu Ouyang, University of Alberta
• Fahima Mohideen, Rutgers University
• Margaux Wienk, Columbia University
• Zhiying Yue, University at Buffalo
• Flora Everest Oswald, Penn State
• Eyad Jamal Naseralla, Saint Louis University
• Eileen Suh, Boston University
• Gold Okafor, UC Berkeley
• Jeewon Oh, Michigan State University
• Mr. Kevin Chi, Stanford University
• Mr. Maxwell L Mikelic, Adelphi University
• Randy Lee, Cornell University
• Jonathan Trever Ojeda, University of North Carolina Greensboro

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

2019 Convention

• 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

2018 Convention

• 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

2017 Convention

• 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

2016 Convention

• 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

For more information on the Diversity Graduate Registration Award, please contact awards@spsp.org.