ISSI President: Dr. Michael Hogg

Professor Michael Hogg from Claremont Graduate University is president of the organization, beginning her 3-year term on January 1, 2025. Dr. Hogg, a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA), is professor of social psychology and director of the Social Identity Lab at Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles, an honorary professor at the University of Kent in the U.K., a former Australian Research Council professorial fellow, and a past president of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. He is the recipient of a number of senior career awards: the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues’ 2022 Kurt Lewin Award, for “outstanding contributions to the development and integration of psychological research and social action”, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s 2021 Campbell Award, for “distinguished scholarly achievement and sustained excellence in research in social psychology”; and the International Society for Self and Identity’s 2020 Distinguished Lifetime Career Award, for “researchers who have made major, enduring contributions to understanding self and identity over the course of their academic careers”. He is also the recipient of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s 2010 Carol and Ed Diener Mid-Career Award in Social Psychology, for “outstanding contributions to the fields of personality and social psychology for scientists in their mid-career”, and the Australian Psychological Society’s 1989 Early Career Award, for “excellence in scientific achievement in psychology among psychologists who are at early stages of their research careers”. Current research focuses on social identity-related influence and leadership processes in public and small group contexts; the role played by social identity in radicalization, populism, and social disintegration; and in translating self-uncertainty into orthodoxy, societal extremism, and intergroup conflict.