David Kenny

Distinguished Alumni Professor 2008

David A. Kenny received his B.A. from the University of California at Davis in 1968 and his PhD from Northwestern University in 1972. He was assistant and associate professor at Harvard University from 1972 to 1978 and from 1978 he has been at the University of Connecticut where he is currently professor of psychology. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and was a visiting professor at Arizona State and Oxford University.

He is the author of six books and has written extensively in the areas of mediational analysis, interpersonal perception, and the analysis of social interaction data. His work is highly cited and one of his papers has over 7000 citations. He has lectured and conducted workshops throughout the world.

He served as first quantitative Associate Editor of Psychological Bulletin and he was an Associate Editor of Review of Personality and Social Psychology. He is also the Editor of the Guilford Press series on Methodology for the Social Sciences. He won the inaugural award for distinguished new contribution from the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships and Donald Campbell award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. He also received a Cattell Sabattical Fellowship the Chancellor's Research Award from the University of Connecticut. He has served on committees for the National Academy of Science, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and the United States Department of Agriculture.

Updated: July 2008