Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology 

The Richard M. Griffith Memorial Award

Click here for a history of the Griffith Award by James Pate (opens in new window)
 

Each year during the SSPP meeting, two papers are given special recognition with the Richard M. Griffith Memorial Awards. The rules for this competition state that applicants must either have received their Ph.D. no more than five years prior to the date of the annual meeting at which the paper is presented or must be current candidates for the Ph.D. All Griffith Award applicants must be either SSPP members or applicants for membership in SSPP. Although papers by one author are preferred, in certain circumstance papers by more than one author can be considered. In that case, the eligible nominee for the Griffith Award must be the first author, and it must be clear that the nominee contributed the vast majority of the effort to the project. If you or one of your students qualifies under the stated rules, the Council encourages submission of a paper. Applicants for the Griffith Award must submit full papers prior to the annual meeting at which they present those papers. Details are provided in the annual call for papers. The Griffith Award committee evaluates both the written paper and the presentation at the annual meeting to help determine the winners. In addition to the award, winners also receive a cash prize of $300. The winners are announced and the cash awards are presented at the business meeting that concludes the conference.
 

Griffith Award Winners:

YEAR     PHILOSOPHY                                                    PSYCHOLOGY

1958         Joseph Margolis, University of South Carolina                       Warren Willingham, US Naval School of Aviation
1959         William Thomas Blackstone, University of Florida                 Alfred E. Kuenzli, Southern Illinois University
1960         William Thomas Blackstone, University of Florida                 Daniel Smersh Lordahl, Washington University
1961         William Thomas Blackstone, University of Florida                 Dempsey F. Pennington, University of Alabama
1962         Donald W. Sherburne, Vanderbilt University                            W. W. Dawson, US Army Medical Res. Lab
1963         Richard A. Smyth, University of North Carolina                        Leonard E. Jarrad, Washington and Lee Univ.
1964         John T. Wilcox, Emory University                                                Vesta C. Skees, University of Louisville
1965         Edward M. Galligan, University of North Carolina                   William P. Paré, Boston College
1966         Don Ihde, Southern Illinois University                                       Norman R. Remley, University of Florida
1967         George B. Thomas, University of Virginia                                 Henry B. van Twyver, University of Florida
1968         Robert L. Arrington, Georgia State University                          Phillip R. Costanzo, University of Florida
                  Thomas K. Hearn, Jr., Coll. of William and Mary
1969         James F. Harris, University of Georgia                                     Virgil V. McKenna, College of William and Mary
                   John Beversluis, Emory University                                            Ben B. Morgan, Jr., University of Louisville
1970         Richard D. Parry, Agnes Scott College                                      Malcolm W. Huckabee, Southern Miss.
1971         Edward S. Shirley, Louisiana State University                         George W. Menzer, University of Louisville
1972         Allen Gibbons, East Carolina University                                    L. James Shapiro, University of Manitoba
1973         Alan E. Fuchs, College of William and Mary                             G. Rufus Sessions, Walter Reed Army Institute
1974         Roger J. Sullivan, University of South Carolina                        Mary Ellen O’C. Chernovetz, University of Tulsa
1975         Paul Tibbets, University of Dayton                                              Frank Holly, U.S. Army Aeromedical Research
1976         George Graham, Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham                     Louis M. Proenza, University of Georgia
1977         Gerald W. Casenave, Vanderbilt University                               Mary G. Boyd, College of Charleston
1978         Jeffrey Tlumak, Vanderbilt University                                          Gerald P. Kreuger, Johns Hopkins Univ.
1979         H. Scott Hestevold, University of Alabama                                 Richard A. Burns, Georgia Southwestern
1980         Mark C. Overvold, Virginia Commonwealth                                Sarah McLeod Miller, University of Virginia
1981         Peter J. Markie, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia                              Sara Stokes Benzel, Georgia State University
1982         Alfred L. Mele, Davidson College                                                 Michale N. O’Malley, U niversity of Colorado
1983         Judith Andre, Old Dominion University                                        Lynn Percival, Naval Aerospace Med. Res. Lab.
1984         David N. James, Longwood College                                          Douglas E. Landon, Army Aeromedical Lab.
1985         Dorothy Coleman, Bowdoin College                                          Michael D. Chafetz, Tulane University
1986         Michael P. Smith, Davidson College
1987         Richard McCarty, East Carolina University                                Carol S. Holding, University of Louisville
1988         James Robert Peters, University of the South                          Mark W. Scerbo, AT&T Systems
1989         Lila Luce, University of Alabama -Birmingham
1990         Piers Rawling, University of Georgia                                          Mary Lynne Dittmar, Univ. Alabama -Huntsville
1991         Kirk Ludwig, University of Florida                                                 Kelly Gurley Lambert, Randolph-Macon College
1992         Robert Wilson, Cornell University                                               Wendy A. Rogers, Memphis State University
1993         Victoria McGeer, Vanderbilt University                                        David A. Washburn, Georgia State University
1994         Paul Davies, University of North Carolina                                  Nick Haslam, New School for Social Research
1995         Steven Hales, University of Bloomsburg                                   Alfred Witkofsky, College of Charleston
1996         Claire Elise Katz, University of Memphis                                   Cecilia M. Acocella, Washington College
1997         Seth Holtzman, Murray State University                                      Leslee K. Pollina, Southeast Miss. State Univ.
1998         Michael P. Lynch, Uni versity of Mississippi                               Harold H. Greene, Morris Brown College
1999         Jonathan A. Waskan, Wash Univ., St. Louis                              Michael J. Beran, Georgia State University
2000         Jennifer McKitrick, Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham                   Thomas J. Capo, Auburn University
2001         David Shoemaker, Cal State Northridge                                    John Paul Mindam, University of Illinois
2002         Thomas W. Polger, University of Cincinnati                              Samuel Fernandez-Carriba, Georgia State Univ.
2003         Chase B. Wrenn, University of Alabama                                    Claudio Cantalupo, Georgia State University
2004         Alan Coates, Vanderbilt University                                             William S. Helton, Wilmington College
2005         John Collins, East Carolina University                                      Dawn Morales, University of Pennsylvania
2006         Andrea Scarantino, Georgia State University                           Lauren A. Taglialatela, Emory University
2007         Max Deutsch, East Carolina University
2008         Steven Todd, University of Cennecticut
2009         Justin Tiehen, University of Puget Sound                                Joshua Redford, University at Buffalo, SUNY
2010         Theodore Bach, University of Connecticut                               Justin J. Couchman, University at Buffalo, SUNY
2011         Corey Maley, Princeton University                                              Lisa Heimbauer, Georgia State University
2012         Myrto Mylopoulos, CUNY Graduate Center                              Matthew Wisniewski, University at Buffalo, SUNY
2013         Paul Carron, Baylor University                                                    Bonnie Perdue, Georgia State University