WHITBOURNE

Susan Krauss Whitbourne is professor emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and adjunct professor of Gerontology at University of Massachusetts Boston. She has taught large undergraduate classes in addition to teaching and supervising doctoral students in developmental and clinical psychology. Her clinical experience has covered both inpatient and outpatient settings. Professor Whitbourne is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Professor Whitbourne received her PhD from Columbia University and has a Diplomate in Geropsychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. She taught at the State University of New York at Geneseo and the University of Rochester prior to moving to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she received the university?s Distinguished Teaching Award, the Outstanding Advising Award, and the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award. In 2001, she received the Psi Chi Eastern Region Faculty Advisor Award, and in 2002, the Florence Denmark Psi Chi National Advisor Award. In 2003, she received both the APA Division 20 and Gerontological Society of America Mentoring Awards. In 2018, she was recognized as a Psi Chi Distinguished Member. As the departmental honors coordinator from 1990?2010, Professor Whitbourne was also the Psi Chi faculty advisor from 1990 through 2017, and the director of the Office of National Scholarship Advisement in the Commonwealth Honors College from 1999 through 2017. The author of 18 books and over 170 journal articles and book chapters, Professor Whitbourne is regarded as an expert on personality development in middle and late life. She is immediate past president of the Eastern Psychological Association and past chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America and was a member of the APA Board of Educational Affairs. She serves as APA Council Representative to Division 20 (Adult Development and Aging), having also served as Division 20 president. She is a fellow of APA?s Divisions 20, 1 (General Psychology), 2 (Teaching of Psychology), 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues), 12 (Clinical Psychology), and 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women). In 2018, Professor Whitbourne was nominated for president-elect of APA. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Psychological Association, where she also chairs the Nominations and Governance Committee. Professor Whitbourne served as an item writer for the Educational Testing Service, was a member of APA?s High School Curriculum National Standards Advisory Panel, wrote the APA High School Curriculum Guidelines for Life-Span Developmental Psychology, and serves as an item writer for the Examination for Professional Practice of Psychology. Her 2010 book, The Search for Fulfillment, was nominated for an APA William James Award. In 2011, she was recognized with a Presidential Citation from APA. In addition to her academic writing, she writes a highly popular blog on Psychology Today entitled ?Fulfillment at Any Age? and has appeared on numerous media outlets, including NBC Dateline and Today Show, AM Canada, and CNN.