Late Career
Deutsch is also a founding member of the World Dignity University initiative and Global Advisory Board Member of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies organization. Variously Deutsch has also been President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the International Society of Political Psychology, several divisions of the American Psychological Association (APA), as well as the Eastern Psychological Association and New York State Psychological Association.
In 2005 the ICCCR inaugurated the annual Morton Deutsch Award, provided to both a scholar-practitioner in the field of social justice and also to the winner of a student paper competition. The ceremony for the awards is held each year in the month of April. The International Society for Justice Research also inaugurated a Morton Deutsch Award in 2004, for the best article published in Social Justice Research. The Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology Division of APA also offers an annual Morton Deutsch Conflict Resolution Award funded by the royalties of Deutsch's book Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice, given to a practitioner that contributes to the theory of the field of conflict resolution or vice versa.
Deutsch officially retired from teaching in 1990 but has authored more than 50 papers or book chapters between his retirement and 2007, as well as many more in recent years. Over his career he mentored nearly 70 PhD students, most of them at Teachers College. In 2005 author Erica Frydenberg wrote a biography on Deutsch entitled Morton Deutsch: a Life and Legacy of Mediation and Conflict Resolution and in 2011 Peter Coleman edited the book Conflict, Interdependence, and Justice: The Intellectual Legacy of Morton Deutsch. Articles profiling his life were also written in 2006 by John Jost and in an issue dedicated to his life in the journal Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.
The Columbia University Libraries house the Morton Deutsch Collection, which consists of a print and online archive of his work. Since his retirement he has served at Columbia as E.L. Thorndike Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education.
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