You are here

Alexandra Rutherford York University, Canada

Alexandra Rutherford is a Professor in the Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology program and a member of the Centre for Feminist Research at York University in Toronto. She uses critical historical and qualitative methods to study the relationships among feminism, psychology, and their sociopolitical contexts. She is the founder and director of the Psychology's Feminist Voices oral history and digital archive project, an ongoing initiative engaging an international team of collaborators who create, preserve, curate, and mobilize the history of feminist psychology through an active oral history program and digital exhibit platform. She is a fellow of four divisions of the American Psychological Association, the recipient of the 2023 Career Achievement Award from the Society for the History of Psychology, the 2023 Carolyn Wood Sherif Award, the highest honour of the Society for the Psychology of Women for her contributions to feminist psychology, and the 2011 Distinguished Member Award from the Section on Women and Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association, among many other honors.