Awards

Bicentennial Medal - 2020

About James H. Capshew

In addition to his position as University Historian, James H. Capshew serves on the faculty of Indiana University in Bloomington in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. He is the author of Herman B Wells: The Promise of the American University, he is author of Psychologists on the March: Science, Practice, and Professional Identity in America, 1929–1969 as well as numerous scholarly articles.

The Society for Advanced Study at IU selected him for the 2010 Herman B Wells Distinguished Lecture. He has served as editor of the international journal History of Psychology and as editor for psychology of the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. His degrees include a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Indiana University.

In 2020, Capshew was awarded Indiana University's Bicentennial Medal, in recognition of his distinguished contributions and longstanding service to the university.