Kurt Danziger - Honors, Awards and Tributes

Honors, Awards and Tributes

Danziger has received many honours and awards during his career. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1989. In 1994, he received the Canadian Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training for his role in creating the graduate program in history and theory of psychology at York University, Toronto. He also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the History of Psychology in 2000, an Honorary Doctorate in Social Science from the University of Cape Town in 2004 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section of the Canadian Psychological Association in 2011.

Five symposia on Kurt Danziger's work have been organised since the publication of Constructing the Subject in 1990. Details of these symposia and the publications that resulted from them can be found here. One of these publications is an edited book, Rediscovering the History of Psychology: Essays Inspired by the Work of Kurt Danziger (Brock, Louw & van Hoorn, 2004). It contains chapters by prominent historians of psychology from North America, Europe and South Africa, as well as a commentary on the chapters by Kurt Danziger. For those who require an introduction to Kurt Danziger’s work, the introduction to this book is recommended (Brock, 2004). This introduction is available here. The book also contains a comprehensive bibliography of Kurt Danziger’s publications from 1951 to 2003.

In 1994, one of Danziger's students, Adrian Brock conducted an interview which was published in several places (e.g. Brock, 1995). Danziger had always thought that this interview concentrated too much on him as a person and not enough on his work and so another, more work-focussed, interview was conducted many years later. The second interview was published in the journal, History of Psychology (Brock, 2006). Both interviews can be found here.

A website devoted to Kurt Danziger's work was started in 2010. It currently contains 23 of his journal articles and 5 of his book chapters. The address of the website is www.kurtdanziger.com.

Danziger is the subject of an entry in the recently published Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories and he will be the subject of an entry in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology (Brock, 2012; in press).