Recipients of the Barbara A. Kirk Award For Outstanding Graduate Student Research

2018
Brian TaeHyuk Keum, M.A.

2017
Chloe A. Greenbaum

2016
Theodore T. Bartholomew

2015
Blake Allan

2014
Brandon Velez

2013
Joseph H. Hammer
Terrance L. Walker

2012
Manijeh Badiee
Title: Portraits of Empowerment Exhibited by One Million Signatures Campaign Activists

Angela Garrison
Title: Disentangling the Effects of Depression Symptoms and Adult Attachment on Emotional Disclosure

2011
Melanie Brewster
Advisor: Bonnie Boradi
Title: Perceived Experiences of Anti-Bisexual Prejudice: Instrument Development and Evaluation

2010
Alisa R. Caban, University of Oregon
Advisor: Ellen Hawley McWhirter
Title: Development and initial validation of a multicultural competence change scale for psychology trainees

2009
David S. Shen Miller, University of Oregon
Advisor: Linda Forrest
Title: Intersections of Diversity and Trainee Competence Problems: Faculty Perspectives from Context to "Colorblindness”

Mindi Thompson, University of Akron
Advisor: Linda Subich
Title: Social Status Identity and Classism in Relation to Vocational Outcomes

2008
V. Paul Poteat, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Lisa Spanierman
Title: Peer Group Socialization of Homophobic Attitudes and Behaviors during Adolescence

2007
Jennifer Bradford, University of North Texas

2006
Rob Bedi, University of British Columbia
Advisor: Beth Haverkamp
Title: Concept-mapping the Client’s Perspective on Counseling Alliance Formation

2005
Patrick Armstrong, University of Illinois
Advisor: Jim Rounds
Title: The Strong ring:  A basic interests model of occupational structure

2004
Mark Taylor
Advisor: Michael Mobley 
Title: The Effects of Success and Failure Situations in Relation to Hope and Explanatory Style for Perfectionists

2003
Michelle A. Swagler, University of Albany—State University of New York.
Advisor: Michael V. Ellis
Title: Crossing the Distance: Adjustment of Taiwanese Graduate Students in the U.S.

2002
Michele L. Speranza, University at Albany-State University of New York
Advisor: Michael Ellis
Title: Counselor Hypothesis-Testing Strategies in Implicity and Explicit Diagnostic Contexts

Ezemenari M. Obasi, The Ohio State University
Advisor: Lisa Y. Flores
Title: Construction and Validation of the Worldview Analysis Scale

2001
Aaron B. Rochlen, University of Maryland
Advisor: Karen O’Brien
Title: The Relation of Male Gender Role Conflict and Attitudes Toward Career Counseling to Interest in and Preference for Different career Counseling Styles

Naomi M. Dogan, The Pennsylvania State University
Title: Navigating Disruption: Women Students Experiences of Sexual Harassment

2000
Lisa Flores, University of Missouri-Columbia
Advisor: Michael J. Patton
Title: Factors contributing to the career choices of Mexican American adolescent women.

David Donnay, Iowa State University
Advisor: Fred Borgen
Title: The incremental validity of vocational self-efficacy: An examination of interest, self-efficacy and occupation.

1999
Tania Israel, Arizona State University
Advisor: Gail Hackett
Title: Comparing counselor education models for Training counselors to work with lesbian, and bisexual clients

Marjorie Dennin, State University of New York at Albany Advisor: Michael Ellis
Title: Effects of a method of self-supervision for Counselor trainees

1998
Sharon Gizara, Michigan State University
Advisor: Linda Forrest
Title: Supervisor’s constructions of intern impairment and incompetence at APA accredited internship sites

1997
Jeffrey H. Kahn, Iowa State University
Advisor: Norman Scott
Title: Predictors of research productivity and science-related career goals among counseling psychology doctoral students

1996
Beth S. Richie, University of Maryland
Advisor: Ruth Fassinger
Title: Persistence, connection, and passion: A qualitative study of the career development of highly achieving African-American and Caucasian women

1995
Willis Elton Metcalfe, University of North Carolina
Advisor: John Galassi
Title: Men who batter women: The identification of a typology using cluster analysis

1994
James Rogers, University of Akron
Advisor: Linda Subich
Title: Development and psychometric analysis of the suicide assessment check list

1993
Kathleen Chwalisz, University of Iowa
Advisor: Ursula Delworth
Title: Development of the perceived stress model of caregiver burden among spouses of head-injured persons

1992
Paul M. Spengler, SUNY – Albany
Advisor: Douglas C. Strohmer
Title: Diagnostic and treatment overshadowing of vocational problems by personal problems (not his dissertation)

1991
Karen Multon, Loyola University – Chicago
Advisor: Steve Brown
Title: The relationship of self-efficacy and academic achievement: A meta-analytic investigation (not her dissertation)

1990
Robert Powell, North Carolina State University
Advisor: Don C. Locke
Title: Moral and ego development among female offenders

1990
Beth Haverkamp, University of Minnesota
Advisor: Jo-Ida C. Hansen
Title: An investigation of the hypothesis testing behavior of counseling trainees

1989
Donna Moilanen, SUNY – Albany
Advisor: Myrna Friedlander
Title: An investigation of the relationship of depression, vulnerability, and cognitive development to the cognitive processing of adolescents and young adults

1988
Carolyn Enns, U. of California – Santa Barbara
Advisor: Gail Hackett
Title: A comparison of nonfeminist and profeminist women’s reactions to nonsexist, liberal feminist, and radical feminist counseling and therapy