Christopher Rolfe Agnew

Christopher Rolfe Agnew is an American social psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He has affiliated-faculty appointments in Purdue's departments of Communication and Political Science.

Education

Agnew earned a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 1987, a Master of Arts in social psychology from San Francisco State University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994.

Career Before joining Purdue University, Agnew was a statistical consultant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined Purdue University in 1995 as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences. He was promoted to associate professor in 2001 and to professor in 2009. He served as director of graduate studies and as director of the department's social psychology area. From 2009 to 2017, he was head of the Department of Psychological Sciences.

From 2017 to 2022, Agnew served as Purdue's associate vice president for research for regulatory affairs and as institutional official.

Awards and honors Agnew received the Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement from San Francisco State University in 1990 and the Early Career Award from the Relationships Researchers Interest Group of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in 2003. He was elected a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in 2006, the American Psychological Association in 2011, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

In 2011, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill established the Christopher R. Agnew Research Innovation Award in his honor. He received Purdue University's Walk the Talk Award in 2022