Faculty and Student Highlights

6th Lifetime Achievement Awards Ceremony
for Extraordinary Accomplishments in Psychohistory
Presented by Psychohistory Forum

March 7^th, 2026, 11am-1:30pm EST
(virtual room opens at 10:45am EST)

RSVP is required: https://psychohistoryforum.com/march-7-2026-lifetime-achievement-award-ceremony-for-james-anderson-paul-elovitz-joseph-ponterotto-charles-strozier/

SHORT BIOS OF THE AWARDEES:

James William Anderson, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, a member of the faculty of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, and a clinical psychologist in private practice.  He serves as Editor of the Annual of Psychoanalysis and member of the Editorial Board of Clio’s Psyche.  He wrote Psychobiography: In Search of the Inner Life (Oxford University Press, 2024).  In addition, he has published psychobiographical papers on William and Henry James, Abraham Lincoln, Edith Wharton, Sigmund Freud, D. W. Winnicott, Henry A. Murray, Woodrow Wilson, and Frank Lloyd Wright. He can be reached at j-anderson3@northwestern.edu.

Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, has been organizing and advancing psychohistorical scholarship since his early years as a faculty member at Ramapo College, then served as convener of the Institute for Psychohistory Saturday Workshops (1975–1982). In 1982, he founded the Psychohistory Forum to nurture psychohistorical research and continues to lead its Executive Council. In 1994, he launched Clio’s Psyche (cliospsyche.org), serving as its Editor-in-Chief since its inception.
A historian, psychoanalytic researcher, and prolific author of approximately 400 publications, Dr. Elovitz’s work spans presidential psychobiography, pedagogy, and the documentation of psychohistory as a field. After completing his doctoral degree in history, he trained and practiced as a psychoanalyst, and in 2019 was designated the first Research Psychoanalyst by the New Jersey Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of The Making of Psychohistory, editor of The Many Roads of the Builders of Psychohistory, and the author or editor of eight additional books.
Dr. Elovitz is a founding member and past president of the International Psychohistorical Association (established 1978), on whose leadership council he continues to serve. A founding faculty member at Ramapo College, he has also taught at Temple, Rutgers, and Fairleigh Dickinson universities. He can be reached at cliospsycheeditor@gmail.com.

Joseph G. Ponterotto, PhD, is Professor of Counseling Psychology in Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education, Lincoln Center Campus. His primary research interests are in psychobiography, multicultural psychology, and qualitative research methods. He has published book-length psychobiographies on chess champion Bobby Fischer — exploring the genius, mystery, and psychological decline of the world chess champion — and on John F. Kennedy, Jr. (both Charles C Thomas, 2012 and 2019). He co-edited Beyond WEIRD: Psychobiography in Times of Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives (Springer, 2023) and served as Scholarly Lead for a special section on psychobiography in the American Psychologist (2017). His latest book, The Psychobiographer’s Handbook: A Practical Guide to Research and Ethics (American Psychological Association, 2025), draws on twenty years of conducting, reviewing, and teaching psychobiography. He has published close to 30 psychobiography-focused journal articles in outlets including American Psychologist, Review of General Psychology, and The Journal of Psychohistory. He can be reached at ponterotto@fordham.edu.

Charles B. (Chuck) Strozier, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus of History, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York; a Training and Supervising Analyst at the TRISP Institute and Foundation; and a practicing psychoanalyst. He is the author of the definitive biography, Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (2001), and more recently the lead author of The New World of Self: Heinz Kohut’s Transformation of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (2022). He is also the co-author of The Fundamentalist Mindset (2010); and the author of Apocalypse: The Psychology of Fundamentalism in America (1994); Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and the World Trade Center Disaster in the Words of Survivors and Witnesses (2011); and two books on Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln’s Quest for Union: A Psychological Portrait (1982, revised 2001) and Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln (2016), among several other books and close to 100 articles. He is the lead author of two books in progress: the first, with Orly Shoshani, Idealization: Psychological, Spiritual, and Political Meanings; and the second, with David Terman et al., How Self Psychology Actually Works. He can be reached at Chuck@charlesbstrozier.com.