Florence Denmark

In 1987, Den received the first APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology. Other awards include the Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training, Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology, Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, as well as the APA Centennial Award for Sustained Contributions to the Public Interest Directorate in 1992. In 1991, she received the highest award offered by the Society for the Psychology of Women, the Carolyn Sherif Memorial Lecture Award. In 2002, Denmark was given the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from Dyson College of Pace University. She also received awards from the New York State Psychological Association, the Organization for Professional Women, the Association for Women in Science, and the Association for Women in Psychology.

In addition to serving as the 1980 president of the APA, Denmark served as president of the New York State Psychological Association, the Eastern Psychological Association (1985-1986), APA Division 1 (General Psychology), the International Council of Psychologists, and the Psi Chi International Honors Society in Psychology. She served as Vice President of the New York Academy of Sciences and on the board of directors for the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology at the University of Akron.

Denmark has made many contributions as well as earned many awards and honors in the field of psychology. Denmark acted as chairperson for the first research conference geared towards women and psychological research. and was one of the founding members and later president (1975-1976) of the Society for the Psychology of Women, APA Division 35.

While living in New York, Denmark accepted an adjunct faculty position at Queens College of the City University of New York. With encouragement from the head of the Queens college psychology program, Denmark accepted a full-time faculty position at Hunter College in 1964. Here, Denmark continue to teach and conduct research until 1988, when she moved to Pace University and became the Robert Scott Pace Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Department of Psychology.

Following high school, Denmark studied history and psychology as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. She was involved in undergraduate research and wrote an honor's thesis revolving around leadership and gender. Graduating with the first double undergraduate major with honors in 1952, she subsequently went on to continue her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. While she was pursuing her graduate degree, Florence married Stanley Denmark - an orthodontist - in 1953. After Denmark was awarded her PhD in social psychology in 1958, she moved to New York with her husband and they had three children.

Florence Harriet Levin Denmark (born January 28, 1932) is an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association (APA) (1980-1981). She is a pioneering female psychologist who has influenced the psychological sciences through her scholarly and academic accomplishments in both psychology and feminist movements. She has contributed to psychology in several ways, specifically in the field of psychology of women and human rights, both nationally and internationally.

Denmark was born in 1932 in Philadelphia to an attorney and a musician. She grew up with an older sister and a significant extended family. Since childhood, Denmark was academically successful. She was actively involved during her adolescent years at Roxborough High School in Philadelphia and graduated as valedictorian of her high school class In 1948.