Christina Maslach
Christina Maslach is an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, known for her research on occupational burnout.[1] When she was in graduate school, Maslach was involved in stopping the Stanford prison experiment.
Education and career
Maslach graduated from Radcliffe College (1967) and earned a Ph.D. in Psychology at Stanford University (1971).[2] Her evaluation of the Stanford Prison Experiment[3] persuaded the investigator, her then future husband[3] Philip Zimbardo, to stop the experiment after only six days. In 1988–89, she was President of the Western Psychological Association; and, since 2001, she has been Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Berkeley.[2]
Awards and honors
In 1991, Maslach was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; in 1997, she won the Professor of the Year Award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association[2] and of the Western Psychological Association,[4] and in 2008 won the WPA Outstanding Teaching Award.[4]
At Berkeley, Maslach has received the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Social Sciences Service Award.[5] She was named the U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in 1997.[6]
References
- ↑ Scott Plous. "Christina Maslach". Maslach.socialpsychology.org. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
- 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2012-06-22.
- 1 2 "The Stanford Prison Experiment: Still powerful after all these years (1/97)". News.stanford.edu. 1996-08-12. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
- 1 2 Program for 88th Convention of the WPA, 2008, retrieved 2012-06-25.
- ↑ "Christina Maslach". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
- ↑ McBroom, Pat. "UC Berkeley professor of psychology, Christina Maslach, is chosen to be U.S. Professor of the Year by CASE". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
External links
- Official website
- Page at Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of California, Berkeley