Draft:Shigehiro Oishi

Shigehiro "Shige" Oishi is a Japanese psychologist and author. He is the Marshall Field IV professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Oishi is considered a foremost authority on happiness, meaning, and culture. Named one of the most cited personality and social psychologists in 2011, Oishi’s research program is distinctive in its methodological range and ingenuity as well as its broad theoretical reach. He has published over 200 journal articles and book chapters across his career.

Oishi has been awarded two major mid-career awards in social psychology: The Career Trajectory Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology in 2017 and the Diener Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in 2018. In 2021, he also received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Advancing Cultural Psychology. The Psychological Review paper on a psychologically rich life he co-authored with Erin Westgate received the 2022 Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize. His research has been featured in major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times.

Biography
Oishi received his B.A. in Psychology at the International Christian University in Tokyo. He immigrated to the United States to receive his Ed. M in Counseling Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. He then received his Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000, where he worked with Ed Diener, pioneer of subjective well-being research.

Oishi taught at the University of Minnesota (2000-2004), Columbia University (2018-2020), and the University of Virginia (2004-2018; 2020-2022) before joining the University of Chicago in 2022.