Dr Rodkey: president-elect of SHP

[Jeremy Burman]

It occurred to me that this news would be of wider interest than just APA members. So I thought I would share more widely. (Apologies for the cross-posting where there's overlap.)

It is my absolute pleasure to share that Dr Elissa Rodkey was elected president of the Society for the History of Psychology (Division 26 of the American Psychological Association). She has accepted the role, and will serve in the Presidential Trio for a three year term—as president-elect, president, and past president—for the calendar years 2026-2028.

Dr. Rodkey’s election occurs at an important moment for our Division. Since the Covid lockdowns, academic service has been down across the board. As is conference attendance. And so too have our programming hours at Convention been cut. It has become clear, in other words, that we need committed leaders who can reach out to audiences authentically with high-quality historical scholarship that is of broad interest and wide appeal.

Dr. Rodkey’s scholarship does exactly this. It centres on one of our strategic priorities: recovering the oft-forgotten women in psychology's history and examining the intellectual communities that sustained marginalized scientists when they were excluded by formal academic structures. Her work therefore directly embodies Division 26’s mission to extend awareness and appreciation of psychology’s invisible past. Not merely by documenting it, but also by actively challenging the exclusionary narratives that have shaped our understanding of the field.

Her recognition through our own Mary Whiton Calkins Lecture at Convention in 2022, and our Early Career Award in 2019 (as well as Cheiron’s Young Scholar Award in 2016), reflects the consistent quality and impact of her historical research. Yet perhaps equally significant is her commitment to public engagement through initiatives like Psychology’s Feminist Voices, which makes this valuable historical scholarship accessible beyond academic circles.

At a time when psychology continues to reckon with its own history of exclusion and bias, Dr. Rodkey's election signals our Division’s renewed commitment to a more complete and honest accounting of how psychological knowledge has developed. And who has been written out of that story. I am therefore proud to have presided over this significant moment for the Division. And I am delighted to welcome Dr. Rodkey as

President-Elect.

Onward!

Jeremy

SHP Past-President

Cheiron life member

[Johnson, Ann]

Fantastic news! Congratulations, Elissa!

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