2026 Scarborough Lecture
Peter Hegarty
Cheiron is pleased to announce that Peter Hegarty of The Open University has been named the 2026 Elizabeth Scarborough Lecturer.
About the Elizabeth Scarborough Lecture
The Elizabeth Scarborough Lecture is offered annually at the Cheiron meeting in honor of Cheiron founding member Elizabeth Scarborough.
Cheiron renamed its annual plenary lecture in 2010 in recognition of Elizabeth Scarborough’s contributions to the society and to the field. Scarborough (1935-2015) was best known for her research uncovering the contributions of women in the history of psychology. In 1989, she co-authored Untold Lives: The First Generation of American Women Psychologists with Laurel Furumoto. She later served as President of the Society for the History of Psychology (Division 26 of the American Psychological Association) from 1990-1991. She was later recognized by the Society with Fellow status and a Lifetime Achievement Award. Scarborough was also recognized by the Society for the Psychology of Women (Division 35 of the APA) for her significant contributions to the field.
Past Scarborough Lecturers
2025
Jill Morawski (Wesleyan University), “Onto-Angst: Figuring the Subject in the History of Psychology”
2024
Andrew S. Winston (University of Guelph), “The Entanglement of Scientific Racism and Organized Antisemitism in the Career of Roger Pearson.”
2023
Marga Vicedo (University of Toronto), “The Difference Being a Mother Made: Experience as Expertise.”
2022
Alexandra Rutherford (York University), “Feminist Psychology from the Clinic to the Courts: The Case of Rape Trauma Syndrome.”
2021
Anne Vila, (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “(Un)Naturalizing the Convulsionnaires in Eighteenth-Century French Theology, Medicine, and Philosophy: Competing Narratives.”
2020 – No lecture held
2019
Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt University), “Knowing Citizens: Reflections on Privacy, History, and the Human Sciences.”
2018
Daniel Burston (Duquesne University), “Dust, Fog, Fire and Salt: Karl Stern’s Emigré Experience in London and Montreal.”
2017
Katherine Crawford (Vanderbilt University), “Towards an Ethics of Sexual Citizenship.”
2016 – Special Symposium held in honor of Elizabeth Scarborough
2015
Harry Heft (Dennison University), “Psychology’s Darwinian Revolution: A Transformation Sidetracked.”
2014
Daniel N. Robinson (University of Oxford), “The Idea of History—One More Time.”
2013
Mary Jo Deegan (University of Nebraska), “Jane Addams and the Hull-House School of Sociology: Specializations, Leaders, and Social Movements, 1889-1935.”
2012
Andrea Tone (McGill University), [no title]
Keynote Address, 1996-2010
2010
Frederick W. Gleach (Cornell University), “The Americanist Tradition in Anthropology as an Interdisciplinary Locus.”
2009
Joan Landes (Pennsylvania State University), [No Title]
2008
Gerald Grob (Institute for Health, Rutgers University), “Morbidity and mortality in 20th century America: The enigma of explanation.”
2007
Ian Hacking (College de France), “The Earliest Days of Autism”
2006
Anne Harrington (Harvard University), “The Inner Lives of Broken Brains: Historical Reflections.”
2005
Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University), “Human Experimentation in the 18th Century: Natural Boundaries and Valid Testing.”
2004
William E. Cross, Jr. (Graduate Center, CUNY), “Black Identity, Before and After Brown.”
2003
Trudy Dehue (University of Groningen), “When History-Writing Becomes Part of Politics.”
2002
Robert A. Nye (Oregon State University), “The Evolution of the Concept of Medicalization in the Late Twentieth Century.”
2001
Jan Goldstein (University of Chicago), “Religious Vie Intérieure or Scientific Introspection: Ernest Renan at the Seminary.”
2000
Elizabeth Lunbeck (Princeton University), “Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Law: The Case of Nymphomania, 1910-1980.”
1999
Mari Jo Buhle (Brown University), “Sexuality/Gender Controversies: Feminism and Psychoanalysis in Historical Perspective.”
1998
Theodore Porter (University of California, Los Angeles), “The Grammar of Assent and The Grammar of Science: Positivism and Alienation in Karl Pearson’s Philosophy of Science.”
1997
Roger Smith (University of Lancaster), “The Big Picture: Writing Psychology into the History of the Human Sciences.”
1996
Lawrence J. Friedman (Indiana University), “Erik Erikson’s Two Life Cycles — Biographical and theoretical: A Life and a Text.”
Invited Speakers, 1969-1995
1995
Michael Sokal (Worsester Polytechnic Institute), “Cattell, Baldwin and the Psychological Review: A Collaboration and Its Discontents.”
1994
Franz Samuelson (Kansas State University), “On Changing the Focus: Reflections on Critical History.”
1993
Frank Sulloway (University of California at Berkeley), “Born to Rebel: Radical Thinking in Science and Social Thought.”
1992
Dorothy Ross (Princeton University), “An Historian’s View of American Social Science.”
1991
Mel van Elteren (Tilburg University), Kurt Lewin’s Films: Intellectual Backgrounds and their Role in the Dissemination of Field Theory”
1990 – William James Centennial Invited Address
Ignas K. Skrupskelis (University of South Carolina), “James’ Conception of Natural Science in the Principles.”