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John G. Benjafield, now retired from Brock University, has a new article: “Exploring relationships among eminent psychologists using co-occurrence analysis,” Scientometrics, 2024, https://rdcu.be/dwQM7.

Michael Pettit, York University, has a new book, published by Oxford University Press, called Governed by Affect: Hot Cognition and the End of Cold War Psychology (2024). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/governed-by-affect-9780197621851?cc=gb&lang=en&.

Michael C. Carhart, Old Dominion University, has several projects underway on the search for prehistoric national origins in early modern Europe. He presented a paper on “Comparative Linguistics and National Origins: Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro” at a regional conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at William & Mary in October. This winter he has been working with a nineteenth-century manuscript book from the archeological site at Hallstatt in the Austrian Alps, which he is calling “Finding the Kingdom of the Elves in the Library of Congress.” He serves as chair of the Faculty Senate of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and also works closely with the Journal of the History of Ideas.

There is a recent festchrift for William McKinley “Mac” Runyan, Prof. Emeritus School of Social Welfare & Affiliate Prof. Psychology Department, UC-Berkeley, published in Clio's Psyche, Fall 2023, Vol. 30, No. 1. The collection includes a biographical introduction by James William Anderson called “Psychologist and Psychobiographer William McKinley Runyan: Rebel with A Cause,” followed by 17 articles by people who have known or worked with Mac from graduate school in 1969–1975 to the present. Among them are articles by Ray Fancher, Mike Sokal, Nicole Barenbaum, Dan McAdams, or Dean Simonton. Mac adds: “Not to get too excited, but the fields of psychobiography and the study of individual lives are being rethought. How are different areas of personality, social, clinical, and biological psychology, as well as one's personal experience, related to the understanding of individual lives?”

Registration for the 56th Annual Meeting of Cheiron is now open. The meeting will be held at the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology (CCHP) at the University of Akron (Akron, OH) from Thursday, June 13, 2024 through Sunday, June 16, 2024.

For detailed information concerning the venue, registration fees, travel, reservations for housing both on and off campus, travel stipends, campus amenities, dining options, the “Young Scholar Award,” and reservations to conduct research at the Archives of the History of American Psychology please visit Cheiron's web page—https://cheironsoc.org—and “2024 Cheiron Conference: Detailed Information.”

Cheiron is pleased to announce that this year's Elizabeth Scarborough Lecture will be presented at Cheiron's summer conference by Dr. Andrew S. Winston, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Following his earlier work on the history of variables, textbooks, and experimentation, Andrew has focused on the history of racism and antisemitism in psychology. Among his recent articles are “Neoliberalism and IQ: Naturalizing Economic and Racial Inequality,” “‘Jews will not replace us!’: Antisemitism, Interbreeding and Immigration in Historical Context,” “The mythical taboo on race and intelligence” (with John P. Jackson Jr.), and, most recently, “Confronting Scientific Racism in Psychology: Lessons from Evolutionary Biology and Genetics” with Kevin A. Bird and John P. Jackson Jr., American Psychologist (in press).

Andrew served as Cheiron's Executive Officer from 2002 to 2008 and was president of the Society for the History of Psychology (Division 26 of the American Psychological Association) in 2012. He received a Career Achievement Award from the Society for the History of Psychology in 2019. He currently serves as a Consulting Editor of History of Psychology, American Psychologist, and Review of General Psychology.

The title of Andrew's lecture is “The Entanglement of Scientific Racism and Organized Antisemitism in the Career of Roger Pearson.”

The European Society of the Human Sciences is happy to congratulate the winner of the latest Early Career Award. The award goes to Janka Kormos, PhD student from the University of Pécs in Hungary, who submitted her paper titled “Dances of Human Interaction—The history of the ‘movement movement’ within the humanities.”