William Shadish

William Raymond Shadish Jr. (November 3, 1949 – March 27, 2016) was an American psychologist and statistician who was a distinguished professor and founding faculty member at the

Shadish was born on November 3, 1949, in Brooklyn, New York, to William Shadish Sr. and Maryjane Cartmell. Shadish Jr.'s father was a Korean War veteran who spent 30 months as a prisoner of war in North Korea.^[2] Shadish Jr. was raised in Redding, California,^[3] and received his bachelor's degree in sociology from Santa Clara University in 1972. He went on to attend Purdue University, where he received his master's degree and Ph.D in Clinical Psychology^[4] in 1975 and 1978, respectively.^[2]

Career

After teaching at the University of Memphis for many years, Shadish joined the faculty of the University of California, Merced (UC-Merced) in 2003. There, he designed the psychology major at the then-brand-new university, which did not have any students or buildings when he first joined its faculty. He also led the process that created the Ph.D. in psychology program at UC-Merced.^[2] He became the second ever distinguished professor at UC-Merced, and received the Distinguished Research Award from their Academic Senate in 2011.^[1]

Affiliations with learned societies

Shadish was the founding secretary-treasurer of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology, later serving as its president from 2013 to 2014. He was also elected president of the American Evaluation Association in 1996, and of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology in 2014. He was a fellow of the American Psychological Association.^[2][5]

Awards

Shadish received the 1994

Shadish died at his home in Mariposa, California, on March 27, 2016, of complications from prostate cancer.^[2]

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