2018 Cheiron Young Scholar Award: Eric F. Luckey

The 2018 Cheiron Young Scholar Award goes to Eric F. Luckey, a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for his paper, “The Psychologist’s Biographer: Writing Lives in the History of Psychology.”

Luckey debates an important issue, the relationship between biography and cultural history, pointing out possibilities of their intersection as a methodological tool for the history of psychology. Luckey's argument is certainly significant and timely, and in his paper he challenges us to navigate between “the individual and the social” using biographies. His paper seeks to find a middle ground, keeping an eye on the lives of unique individuals, with the other eye on the cultural and historical contexts.

--2018 Cheiron Young Scholar Award Committee

Rodrigo Miranda (chair), Rémy Amouroux, Robert Kugelmann