Kristen Monroe, political science professor and director of the UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, is the recipient of the 2013 Nevitt Sanford Award. The honor, awarded annually by the International Society of Political Psychology since 1979, recognizes a faculty member for distinguished professional contributions to the field of political psychology.

Monroe is the author of more than 50 articles and 15 single-authored books or edited volumes. Her work focuses on political psychology, political economy, and normative political theory. She is noted particularly for her research on altruism and moral choice, or the treatment of others, work which has earned her a Pulitzer Prize nomination, a National Book Award nomination, two American Political Science Association Best Book Awards for both The Heart of Altruism (1996) and The Hand of Compassion (2004), and the 2010 Paul Silverman Award for Outstanding Scientific Work on Ethics. She is a past president of the International Society of Political Psychology and past vice president of the American Political Science Association, the latter of which awarded her both Frank J. Goodnow and Ithiel de Sola Pool honors in 2010 for professional and service contributions.

Monroe will receive her most recent award at the International Society of Political Psychology annual meeting in Israel July 8-11. She will also give a featured talk at the 2014 meeting in Rome.

She is currently spending the 2012-13 academic year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.