Irene Hanson Frieze

Irene Hanson Frieze is a personality psychologist and pioneering figure in the field of women's studies. She is known for her research on intimate partner violence in marriage and dating relationships, and for cross-cultural studies of attitudes about work and gender roles. Frieze is Professor Emerita of Psychology and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2009, the Unger-Frieze Prize was established by the Association for Women in Psychology to honor the legacy of Rhoda Unger and Irene Hanson Frieze "for their early leadership in feminist research." This prize is awarded at the annual meeting of the Association for Women in Psychology to the best student-authored poster reporting research relevant to the field of feminist psychology. Awards Frieze received many prestigious awards throughout her career. In 1989 she received the Carolyn Wood Sherif Lectureship Award from American Psychological Association (APA) Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women) on Considering the Social Context in Gender Research, which was subsequently published in Psychology of Women Quarterly. She received the 1998 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology for her work as co-editor of the 1997 Special Issue Measuring Beliefs about Appropriate Roles for Women and Men published in the Psychology of Women Quarterly. In 2000, Frieze received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the APA Committee on Women in Psychology "in recognition of over thirty years of research, teaching, scholarly writing, and social activism utilizing psychology to advance women’s lives." Other notable awards included the 2003 Distinguished Service Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the 2005 Florence L. Denmark and Mary E. Reuder Award for Outstanding International Contributions to the Psychology of Women and Gender from APA Division 52 (International Committee for Women), the 2014 Florence Denmark Distinguished Mentoring Award from the Association for Women in Psychology, and the 2014 Iris Marion Young Award for Political Engagement.