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2014 Innovative Teaching Award
Honorable Mention

 

 

 

 


Mary Kite received her B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. from Purdue University. A social psychologist, she is currently Professor of Psychological Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Ball State University. 
Her research focuses on the relationship between gender-associated beliefs and beliefs about gays and lesbians and older adults. Strongly committed to psychology education at all levels, she is Past-President of The Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP, APA Division 2); she has held a number of other leadership roles for STP, including her current role as APA Council Representative.  She also chaired the APA Presidential Task Force on Diversity Education Resources and is Past-President of the Midwestern Psychological Association. She is a Fellow of APA Divisions 2, 9, 35, & 44s. She recently coauthored the second edition of a textbook on that prejudice and discrimination and the third edition of a textbook on research methods (both with Bernard E. Whitley, Jr.). In 2007, she was named a Minority Access National Role Model. She received a Presidential Citation from STP in 2011 and the Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation in 2014.