Dr. John D. Hogan

B.S., MS, Ph.D.
Professor

Room 113B Marillac Hall
(718) 990-5381
hoganj@stjohns.edu

Biography
Dr. Hogan received his PhD in Developmental Psychology from Ohio State University, 1970. He received a MS in Counseling Psychology, minor in Statistics, Iowa State University, 1962. he earned a BS in Biology, with minors in Chemistry and Philosophy, St. John’s University, NY.  1960. He is a Licensed Psychologist: in State of New York #7774.

DR. Hogan’s major areas of interest are the history of psychology, international psychology and developmental psychology. He author/editor of two books, 15 chapters, and more than 200 articles, encyclopedia entries and book reviews.  He presented more than 100 papers at professional meetings.

American Psychological Association:  Served on the Executive Committee of Div. 1 (General Psychology) and Div. 52 (International Psychology), as well as serving as Program Chair for each division.  Member-at- large and historian of Div. 52.  Continue to serve as a site visitor, Committee on Accreditation, 1986-present. 

Eastern Psychological Association:  Served as historian and member of the Board, presenting five lectures on the history of psychology at the annual meeting of EPA (2001-2005).  In 2007, selected to present the first lecture in an endowed lecture series honoring Virginia Staudt Sexton, a former faculty member at SJU.  

New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA): Elected president of the Academic Division (twice) and president of the Division of Adult Development and Aging. Served on various committees including serving as Chair of the Ethics Committee and Chair of the Awards Committee.  Received numerous awards from NYSPA including the Distinguished Service Award, the Wilhelm Wundt Award, the Kurt Lewin Award, the David Mitchell Award, and the Allen V. Williams Award, their highest award, for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology. 

New York Academy of Sciences: Completed a two-year term as Chair of the Section on Psychology (2006).  Member of the Program Committee since 2000.  Recipient of the first Helmut E. Adler Award of the New York Academy of Sciences for "outstanding contributions to the history of psychology."  October, 2002. 

Psi Chi: Moderated and co-moderated the local chapter of Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology; served on the National Council of Psi Chi (twice); served as national Psi Chi historian; and was the keynote speaker at the 75th anniversary of the founding of Psi Chi, held at Yale University in 2004.  Received four service awards from Psi Chi and a Thelma Hunt Research Award.   

St. John’s University: Presented with the Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, May 1999; recipient of the Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship Award—Graduate, June, 2000; appointed a Fellow of the Teaching and Learning Center, 2000-2001; Grand Marshall, St. John's University Commencement, January, 2001.

Department of Psychology: Served on several committees, including Undergraduate Educational Policy Committee and Graduate Educational Policy Committee.  He was recently elected to an 11th 3-year term as a member of the Psychology Department P&B (the Personnel and Budget Committee).  John has mentored 26 doctoral dissertations and served on 140 doctoral committees.

In January, 2006, he began a three-year term as Section Editor for the American Psychologist, the most widely circulated professional psychology journal in the world.  In 2006, he was the co-founder of an organization of Psychology Historians of New York who are documenting the history of psychology in New York City.

Representative Publications
Books

Sexton, V. S., & Hogan, J. D. (Eds.) (1992).  International   psychology: Views from around the world.  Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Thompson, D. N., & Hogan, J. D. (Eds.) (1996). A history of developmental psychology in autobiography. Madison, WI: Brown and Benchmark.

Chapters

Hogan, J. D., & Sussner, B. D. (2000). European influences on U.S. developmental psychology: A historical perspective.  In A. L. Comunian and U. P. Gielen (Eds.). International perspectives on human development (pp. 9-37). Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers.

Hogan, J. D., & Sussner, B. D. (2001). Cross-cultural psychology in historical perspective.  In L. L. Adler and U. Gielen  (Eds.). Cross-cultural topics in psychology (2nd ed.).  New York, NY: Praeger.

Hogan, J. D. (2001). Reminiscences of Psi Chi.  In S. Davis and M. Wertheimer (Eds.). An oral history of Psi Chi (pp. 136-140). Chattanooga, TN: Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology. 

Hogan, J. D. (2003). June Etta Downey: Pioneer of psychological measurement. In G. Kimble and M. Wertheimer, Portraits of pioneers in psychology, Volume V. (pp. 111-124).  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Hogan, J. D. (2003). G. Stanley Hall: Educator, innovator, pioneer of developmental psychology. In G. Kimble and M. Wertheimer, Portraits of pioneers in psychology, Volume V. (pp. 19-36).  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Hogan, J. D. (2003). Anne Anastasi.: Master differential psychologist and psychometrician.  In G. Kimble and M. Wertheimer, Portraits of pioneers in psychology, Volume V. (pp. 263-277).  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Hogan, J. D., & Vaccaro, T. P. (2006).  The history of international psychology.  In M.  J. Stevens and U. P. Gielen (Eds.),  Toward a global psychology.  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 

Hogan, J. D., & Vaccaro, T. P. (2006).  Internationalizing the history of developmental psychology.  In A. Brock (Ed.), Internationalizing the history of psychology.  New York: New York University Press.