FABBS is delighted to announce four Board members for 2024: Norman B. Anderson will serve as President-Elect, Lee Ryan will serve as Vice President-Elect, Bud Fennema will serve again as Treasurer, and Jon Freeman will serve as a Member-at-Large. They begin their terms on January 1, 2024.
Norman B. Anderson, PhD
President-Elect
Dr. Anderson is currently Assistant Vice President for Research and Academic Affairs, and Professor of Social Work at Florida State University (FSU). At FSU he is also the founding Director of the Faculty Leadership Development Program. Before joining FSU, Anderson served for 13 years as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the American Psychological Association (APA) and was the second longest serving (and first African American) CEO in the 130+ year history of APA. Prior to joining APA, Anderson was the founding Director of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). In addition to his formal leadership roles, Anderson served as a tenured associate professor at Duke University School of Medicine and as a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is well-known for his research and writing on racial, ethnic, and economic health inequities. Anderson is currently a Senior Editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health covering health equity topics.
Anderson is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He is a Past-President of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida, and the Board of Directors of Prosocial World. Anderson is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and has been inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame.
Lee Ryan, PhD
Vice President-Elect
Lee Ryan is Professor and Head of the Psychology Department at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on the neural mechanisms mediating autobiographical and semantic memory, how the aging brain and memory changes across the adult lifespan, and early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. Her work examines how cardiovascular, lifestyle, and genetic factors influence individual differences in the trajectory of age-related cognitive changes. As a clinical neuropsychologist, she has worked with individuals and families coping with brain disorders including Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer’s disease. In addition to her current role as Head of Psychology, Lee serves as the Director of the School of Mind, Brain, and Behavior and the Associate Director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Arizona. She has been a strong advocate for equity and inclusion in academia and has been active in mentoring programs designed to encourage women and individuals from underrepresented groups to pursue a career in science.
Jon Freeman, PhD
Member-at-Large
Jon Freeman is an associate professor of psychology at Columbia University and director of the Social Cognitive & Neural Sciences Lab. His research is interdisciplinary, integrating insights and techniques across social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, affective science, and vision science. He studies how people understand the social world through a coordination of visual, social, and affective processes. In particular, his work focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying person perception, bias and stereotyping, and the real-time formation and dynamics of social and emotional judgments, including the interplay between social cognition and visual perception. He takes an integrative and multi-level approach that makes use of techniques such as functional neuroimaging, computational modeling, and behavioral paradigms. He is also the developer of the data collection and analysis software, MouseTracker, which uses response-directed hand motion to uncover split-second decision-making. Freeman is the recipient of a number of awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the FABBS Early Career Impact Award, the APS Janet T. Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, other early career awards from the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, the Society for Personality & Social Psychology, the International Social Cognition Network, and the Society for Social
Neuroscience.
Bud Fennema, PhD
Treasurer
Bud Fennema is the Arthur Andersen Professor at Florida State University where he has taught since 1993. He currently teaches managerial accounting, MBA accounting, and doctoral seminars in behavioral accounting research. His research is in the area of judgment and decision making. He is a Certified Public Accountant (licensed in Florida), a Certified Management Accountant, and he served on the Florida Board of Accountancy from 2011 to 2020. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he worked in private companies and public accounting with Arthur Andersen & Co. He received a B.S. from Indiana University, an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
Elected by the Council of Representatives, Board members oversee FABBS’ activities and interact regularly with the Washington, DC office to create an agenda for advancing our disciplines and improving the quality of life for all. Since we cannot take for granted the federal support for our sciences, FABBS Board members work to ensure that we have a presence in Washington, DC, and that scientists in our disciplines have a seat at the table.
