EDITORS IN CHIEF

Roger Kirk

Roger E. Kirk grew up in Marietta, Ohio. When he was 15, his parents moved to Columbus, Ohio. He received his B.S. and M.A. in music and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the Ohio State University. He did post doctoral study in mathematical psychology at the University of Michigan.

He has written over 80 scientific papers in the areas of statistics, psychoacoustics, and human engineering, and five textbooks on statistics. His first book, Experimental Design: Procedures for the Behavioral Sciences, was identified by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the most frequently cited books in its field.

Dr. Kirk is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 1, 2, 5, and 13), the American Psychological Society, and the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology. He is a past president of the Society for Applied Multivariate Research, Division 5 of the American Psychological Association, and the Southwestern Psychological Association. A recipient of numerous distinctions for teaching effectiveness, he was named the Outstanding Tenured Teacher in the College of Arts and Sciences for 1992-93 and designated a Master Teacher in 1993, Baylor University's highest teaching honor. More recently, the Ohio State University Department of Psychology gave him its Distinguished Alumnus Award for 2001.

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