Christina Maslach

Christina Maslach is an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, known for her research on occupational burnout. When she was in graduate school, Maslach was involved in stopping the Stanford prison experiment.

Maslach graduated from Radcliffe College (1967) and earned a Ph.D. in Psychology at Stanford University (1971). Her evaluation of the Stanford Prison Experiment persuaded the investigator, her then future husbandPhilip Zimbardo, to stop the experiment after only six days. In 1988–89, she was President of the Western Psychological Association; and, since 2001, she has been Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1991, Maslach was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; in 1997, she won the Professor of the Year Award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Western Psychological Association, and in 2008 won the WPA Outstanding Teaching Award.

At Berkeley, Maslach has received the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Social Sciences Service Award. She was named the U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in 1997.

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