UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON

MORTON ANN GERNSBACHER, PHD VILAS RESEARCH AND SIR FREDERIC BARTLETT PROFESSOR UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

Gernsbacher received her Ph.D. from the Uni- in Science, Chair of the APA Board of Scientific versity of Texas at Austin in 1983. She was an Affairs, member of the Psychonomic Society assistant, associate, and full professor at the Governing Board, the Medical Affairs Commit- from 1983 to 1992. She tee of the National Alliance for Re- then joined the faculty of the University of search, the Advisory Committee of the Social, Wisconsin-Madison, where she is a Vilas Re- Behavioral, & Economic Sciences Directorate of search Professor and the Sir Frederic C. Bartlett the National Science Foundation, and the Scien- Professor of . She is a Fellow of the tific Program Committee for the American As- American Association for the Advancement of sociation for the Advancement of Science. Science, Society for Experimental Psychologists, Gernsbacher is an award-winning teacher, who American Psychological Association (Divisions in 1998 received the Hilldale Award for Distin- 1, 3, and 6), Association for Psychological Sci- guished Professional Accomplishment, the ence, American Educational Research Associa- highest award bestowed by the University of tion, and Psychonomic Society. Wisconsin-Madison faculty. She has served as Gernsbacher has received a Research Career editor-in-chief of the journal, Memory & Cogni- Development Award and a Senior Research Fel- tion, co-editor of Psychological Science in the Pub- lowship from the National Institutes of Health, lic Interest, associate editor of Cognitive Psychol- a Fulbright Research Scholar Award, a Distin- ogy, and nine other editorial boards. She has guished Alumni Award from the University of delivered the William James Lecture, the Nor- Texas at Dallas, a James McKeen Cattell Foun- man Anderson Distinguished Lecture, the Cas- dation Fellowship, the George A. Miller Award, key Lecture, the John Kendall Lecture, an APA a Professional Opportunities for Women Award Distinguished Scientist Lecture, and she was from the National Science Foundation, a Dis- the Inaugural Lufkin Honorary Lecturer. tinguished Scientific Contribution Award from Gernsbacher’s research has for over 30 years the Society for Text and Discourse, a Distin- investigated the cognitive and neural mecha- guished Service to Psychological Science Award nisms that underlie human communication. from APA, the Ernest R. Hilgard Lifetime She has published over 150 journal articles and Achievement Award, the Lifetime Achievement invited chapters. She has authored or edited 10 Award from the Society for Experimental Psy- books, including Language Comprehension as chology and Cognitive Science, a Sloan Foun- Structure Building (Erlbaum, 1990); the Handbook dation - TIER (Teaching Integrity in Empirical of (Academic Press, 1994; El- Research) Fellowship; and the Phi Kappa Phi sevier, 2006); Coherence in Spontaneous Text (Ben- (Honor Society) Biennial Scholar Award. jamins, 1995), the Handbook of Discourse Proc- Gernsbacher has served as President of the esses (Erlbaum, 2002), and two editions of Psy- 25,000-member Association for Psychological chology and the Real World: Essays Illustrating Science, President of the Society for Text and Fundamental Contributions to Society (Worth, Discourse, President of the Division of Experi- 2010; 2014). Her research has been funded by mental Psychology of the APA, President of the the National Institutes of Health, the National Foundation for the Advancement for Behav- Science Foundation, the Department of De- ioral and Brain Sciences, Member-at-Large of fense, the Centers for Disease Control, and sev- the American Association for the Advancement eral private foundations.