The Women in Behavior Analysis Hall of Fame, inaugurated in 2021 and announced by WIBA's Hall of Fame Selection Committee at the live Nashville event, recognizes a dimension of the field's history that has been systematically underrepresented in standard behavior analysis training: the contributions of women to the development of behavioral science, its research literature, its applied practice, and its professional infrastructure. The first class of inductees represents individuals whose work shaped what behavior analysts do today, often in ways that are taught without attribution to the women who developed them.
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Join Free →The WIBA Hall of Fame was established to honor the accomplishments of women pioneers in the field of behavior analysis and create a historical record to educate behavior analysts on the contributions of these pioneers. Join the WIBA Hall of Fame Selection Committee Members as they announce and share the most notable accomplishments of our first class of inductees.
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Dr. Carol Pilgrim received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1987 with a specialization in the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. She is currently Professor Emerit in the Psychology Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she has been honored with a Distinguished Teaching Professorship (1994-1997), the North Carolina Board of Governors Teaching Excellence Award (2003), the Faculty Scholarship Award (2000), and the Graduate Mentor Award (2008). She received the Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award and the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award in 1992, the ABAI Student Committee Outstanding Mentor Award in 2006, and the ABAI Distinguished Service to Behavior Analysis award in 2017, among other honors. Her research contributions include both basic and applied behavior analysis, with an emphasis in human operant behavior, relational stimulus control, and the early detection of breast cancer. Dr. Pilgrim has served as editor of The Behavior Analyst, associate editor of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and The Behavior Analyst, co-editor of the Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin, and as a member of the editorial boards of those and several other journals. She is a Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International and of Division 25 of the American Psychological Association. She has served as President of the Association for Behavior Analysis twice, as well as President of the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis, Division 25 of the American Psychological Association, and the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis. Additionally, she has been Member-at-large of the Executive Council of ABA and Division 25, and member of the Boards of Directors of the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis, and the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.
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