Dr. Susan A. Gelman is Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan. Dr. Gelman was educated at Oberlin College and at Stanford University. Her research in cognition and cognitive development has centered on language acquisition, categorization, inductive reasoning, and relationships between language and thought. She served as President of the Cognitive Development Society from 2005-2007 and President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 2018. She was also a founding co-editor of the journal of the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology and author of The Essential Child (2003). She is a recipient of the Developmental Psychology Mentor Award from the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association 2016 G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology (Division 7), a J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship, and an elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.