Christina Maslach

Christina Maslach is an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, known for her research on occupational burnout.[1] When she was in graduate school, Maslach was involved in stopping the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Biography

Maslach graduated from Radcliffe College (1967) and earned a Ph.D. in Psychology at Stanford University (1971).[2] Her evaluation of the Stanford Prison Experiment[3] persuaded the investigator, her then future husband[3] Prof. Philip Zimbardo, to stop the experiment after only six days. In 1988–89, she was President of the Western Psychological Association; and, since 2001, she has been Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Berkeley.[2]

Awards and honors

In 1991, Maslach was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; in 1997, she won the Professor of the Year Award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association[2] and of the Western Psychological Association,[4] and in 2008 won the WPA Outstanding Teaching Award.[4]

At Berkeley, Maslach has received the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Social Sciences Service Award.[5] She was named the U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in 1997.[6]

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