75 Years Of Social Science For Social Action - Historical And Contemporary Perspectives On Spssi'S Scholar-Activist Legacy

Frances Cherry is Professor of Psychology and Director of The Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University. She is the author of The "Stubborn Particulars" of Social Psychology: Essays on the Research Process (1995). Her work focuses on the history of social psychology at mid-20^th century, with a particular focus on the ways in which social psychologists bring research and activism together.

Rhoda Unger is a Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and a Professor Emerita of Psychology at Montclair State University. She was a co-editor of the JSI issue "50 years of psychology and social issues" published in 1986. She has written several articles on the history of women in psychology and her presidential address to SPSSI (published in JSI in 2000) was on positive marginality and social change.