I am pleased to announce that the recipient of the first annual International Society for Self and Identity Career Contribution Award is Marilynn Brewer. This new honor complements the Young Investigator Award, which is given annually now at the SPSP Pre-conference.

This Career Award is to recognize contributions to theory and research on self and identity that span a career, contributions which promote and inspire creative and integrative work. The selection committee this year was comprised James Shepperd, Carolin Showers, and Bob Arkin, who chaired the committee.

Marilynn brewer received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Northwestern University in 1968. She is now Eminent Scholar in Social Psychology at Ohio State University. Her scholarly work began with an analysis of Ethnocentrism and intergroup relations, with Donald Campbell, her mentor. Her co-authored books Groups in Contact: The Psychology of Desegregation in the 1980s and Intergroup Relations in the 1990s illustrate her longstanding commitment to the analysis of social identity.

Marilynn is the recipient of the 1995 Kurt Lewin Memorial Award from SPSSI, and the Donald Campbell Award for Distinguished Research in Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. She served as President of the APS, of SPSSI, and the Western Psychological Association. She has also been editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review and is currently associate editor of Psychological Review.

Marilynn's research continues to be focused on the social self. She has contributed concepts such as optimal distinctiveness, collective identity, in-group love and outgroup hate, and the other many faces of social identity that all have shaped ideas about identity and the self for more than two decades.

As part of this award, Marilynn will present an invited address at the Self Pre-conference at SESP in Spokane in October entitled "Social Identity Complexity: A theory of multiple group identities and the self."

Chair of the Selection Committee, 2002