Ludy T Benjamin, Jr Editor & Author

Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Texas Christian University.  He served eight years on the faculty of Nebraska Wesleyan University, two years as Director of Education for the American Psychological Association's (APA) Central Office in Washington, DC, and 32 years as a professor at Texas A&M University (TAMU) where he held an endowed chair and an endowed professorship. His multiple teaching awards from TAMU included the inaugural Presidential Professorship in Teaching Excellence. His national awards include the Distinguished Teaching in Psychology Award from the American Psychological Foundation, the Distinguished Career Contributions to Education Award from the APA, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from APA's Society for the History of Psychology for his research contributions to history.

Benjamin is a historian of American psychology whose work has focused on the transformation of psychology from philosophy to laboratory science. He has written about the earliest psychology laboratories; about the early psychological organizations and how those fostered the agenda of the new experimental psychology; about the initial applications of experimental psychology to education, business, and clinical practice; and about the ways in which psychologists sought to inform the American public about their science. Most of his published works are on the history of psychology and include more than 20 books and 160 book chapters and journal articles.  He is a past president of the Society for the History of Psychology, the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and the Eastern Psychological Association. The annual Distinguished Lectureship in the History of Psychology at the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology is named for him.