Brief Biography
William Buskist is the Distinguished Professor in the Teaching of Psychology and at Auburn University and a Faculty Fellow at Auburn’s Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. At Auburn, he is Director of the Teaching Fellows Program for Graduate Students and Coordinator of the Introductory Psychology course. Nationally, he serves as a member of the program committee for the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology.
Together with Steve Davis, he has edited two volumes on the teaching of psychology: The Teaching of Psychology: Essays in Honor of Wilbert J. McKeachie and Charles L. Brewer (Erlbaum, 2003) and The Handbook of the Teaching of Psychology (Blackwell, 2005) and together with Barry Perlman and Lee McCann, he has edited Voices of Experience: Memorable Talks from the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (American Psychological Society, 2005). He has published over 40 books and articles on the teaching of psychology and given dozens of addresses and workshops at college, universities, and conferences. In 2008, he served as co-editor with Randy Smith for a special issue of the journal, Teaching of Psychology, devoted to the scholarship of teaching and learning in psychology.
In 2005, he was a co-recipient (with Leanne Lamke) of Auburn University’s highest teaching honor, The Gerald and Emily Leischuck Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also is a recipient of the 2000 Robert S. Daniel Teaching Excellence Award from the Society of the Teaching of Psychology (STP) APA Division 25’s Fred S. Keller Behavioral Education Award (2009), and the American Psychological Foundation’s Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award (2009).
He is a Fellow of Divisions 1 (General Psychology) and 2 (Society for the Teaching of Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. He served as president of the Society in 2007).