The International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) is electing a new president. Presidents serve a three-year term and are responsible for organizing the awards and small grants committees, organizing searches for new editors for Self & Identity, and being a resource for current Self & Identity editors. The incoming president would also have the freedom to discuss and develop new initiatives for the society. Presidents work with an executive team composed of the ISSI treasurer and secretary and an executive board of self and identity researchers from around the world. The presidential term will begin January 1, 2025 and continue through December 31, 2027.

Candidates for President are not restricted by discipline and membership in ISSI is not a requirement. 

Please send nominations for president to the current president, Shira Gabriel, at sgabriel@buffalo.edu. Self-nominations are welcome! 

Nominations are due by June 1, 2024.
 

The search committee (Serena Chen, Shira Gabriel, Sarah Gaither, & Tonglin Jiang) will then reach out to nominated candidates to assess their interest. Those interested will be asked to submit a vita and brief statement of goals. The 18-member ISSI Executive Committee will vote on the candidates by August 31, 2024. 

The International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) is seeking nominations for its 2023 Distinguished Lifetime Career Award. This award is made annually to recognize a scientist who has made sustained and important contributions to our understanding of self and identity throughout their academic career. The award will be made on the basis of originality, quality, and impact of scientific research in the area of self and identity. Click here for a list of prior award winners.

The award winner will be invited to deliver a distinguished address and receive a plaque at the 2025 SPSP Self and Identity Pre-Conference (February 20th in Denver, CO). ISSI will cover up to $1000 of the award winner’s travel expenses to SPSP. The award winner will also be invited to submit an Award Address paper to the society’s flagship journal Self & Identity. Please help us spread this information to a wide audience of talented scientists for this year's competition. 

Candidates for the award are not restricted by discipline and membership in ISSI is not a requirement. 

Nominations should include a brief letter of nomination addressing the nature and impact of the nominee's contribution to the scientific study of self and identity, a copy of the nominee's CV, and no more than 3 PDFs of their work selected for quality and relevance to the award. Please send nominating materials electronically. Nominations are due by FRIDAY, MAY 24th, 2024.

The selection committee (Lora Park, Brandon Schmeichel, and Angel Gomez) will make its recommendation to the ISSI Executive Committee, and the winner will be selected by August of 2024.

Nominating materials should be sent to Lora Park, Chair, ISSI Distinguished Lifetime Career Award Committee: lorapark@buffalo.edu

The International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) seeks nominations for its 2024 Outstanding Early Career Award. This award is made annually to recognize and encourage a distinguished junior scientist who has made outstanding theoretical and empirical contributions to the scientific study of self and identity. The award will be made on the basis of originality, quality, and impact of scientific research in the area of self and identity. Click here for a list of prior award winners.

The award winner will be invited to deliver a distinguished address and receive a plaque at the 2024 SPSP Self and Identity Pre-Conference (February 8th in San Diego, CA). ISSI will cover up to $1000 of the award winner's travel expenses to SPSP. The award winner will also be invited to submit an Award Address paper to the society's flagship journal Self & Identity. 

Nominees should have completed their PhD no earlier than January of 2014.

Nominations should include a brief letter of nomination addressing the nature and impact of the nominee's contribution to the scientific study of self and identity, a copy of the nominee's CV, and no more than 3 PDFs of their work selected for quality and relevance to the award. Please send nominating materials electronically. Nominations are due by FRIDAY, MAY 24th, 2024.

The selection committee (Kimberly Rios, Ludwin Molina, and Joshua Hicks) will make its recommendation to the ISSI Executive Committee, and the winner will be selected by August of 2024.

Nominating materials should be sent to Kimberly Rios, Chair, ISSI Outstanding Early Career Award Committee: kmrios@illinois.edu

The International Society for Self & Identity (ISSI) is delighted to announce the awardees for our 2023 Mini Research Grant Program.

In this third year of the program, we received 58 proposals. These proposals spanned a wide range of topics on the self and identity and came from researchers from across the world.

We were able to fund 5 proposals submitted by faculty, post-docs, and graduate students.

• Completely present: Mindfulness as a predictor of self-compatibility checking, an experimental study; Ariane Sophie Mario-Jetton, Postdoctoral Scholar, Universitat Hamburg

• Thriving through relationships: Self and identity-affirming social support; ​Cora Baron, PhD Student, University of California, Santa Barbara

• "This will hurt me and everyone else like me:" The impact of structural prejudice on individual and collective-level threat appraisals and well-being; Izilda Pereira-Jorge, PhD Student, University of Connecticut

• Multicultural identity management: Investigating proactive cultural value expression; Jenna Van Fossen, Faculty, Clemson University 

• Disability discrimination, mental health, and disability; Jordan Rubin-McGregor, PhD Student, Miami University

We offer our congratulations to each of these awardees. We look forward to seeing their work, as well as the work of all the submitters, in upcoming ISSI preconferences and in the pages of Self and Identity.

Look out for next year’s call for mini grant proposals, which will likely come out around August 2024.

If you have an announcement that you would like to include, please email your request to Cathy Cox (c.cox@tcu.edu).