Richard Morrison, Jacqueline Kemp, and Gale Morrison at the Fellowship Breakfast in January 2020
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education doctoral student Jacqueline Kemp is the 2019-2020 recipient of the Gale and Richard Morrison Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded from an endowed fund to recruit top applicants to the Gevirtz School to pursue a Ph.D. or support deserving students who have advanced to Ph.D. candidacy and are working on their dissertations. Recipients must be admitted into a Ph.D. program in GGSE and have demonstrated academic excellence in current or previous academic endeavors.
Gale Morrison is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, where she worked from 1980 to 2014. She is also Acting Dean Emeritus January-August 2005 and January-August 2013.
Dr. Morrison also served as Dean, Graduate Division. She taught and mentored graduate students in a National Association of School Psychologists-approved school psychology credential program and an American Psychological Association-approved Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology Program. During her career at UC Santa Barbara, she served as Chair at the Graduate Council, Director of the Research Office in the Graduate School of Education, President of School Psychology Educators of California, and Newsletter editor for the American Educational Research Association Division of Counseling and Development, among other appointments. UC Riverside Alumni Association honored her with a Public Service Award in 1998.
Jacqueline Kemp is a doctoral student in the Department of Education with a focus in culture and development. She also participates in the interdisciplinary emphasis in Language, Interaction, and Social Organization. Her advisor is Dr. Amy Kyratzis. She received a B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies and a M.S. in Human Development and Social Policy from the University of Utah. She has taught university courses at the University of Utah in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies and at Santa Clara University in the Liberal Studies department, including: Development in Infancy and Childhood and Early Childhood Education Curriculum. In addition to teaching and research, Jacqueline has been the Director of three university-affiliated early childhood centers and an active member of NAEYC. Her research interests include: storytelling and story-acting in early childhood classrooms, preschool children’s narrative development, preschool peer group culture, and language socialization in preschool peer groups.