SWIM – Southeastern Workers in Memory
Southeastern Workers in Memory (more commonly known as SWIM) has been meeting at SEPA since 1970. SWIM holds a symposium in which two speakers, one from the southern region and a second speaker from outside the region give 50 minute talks. SWIM has featured some of the most distinguished researchers in memory over the years. Please see the list below for our past speakers.
Jill Shelton of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is President for 2017.
She can be reached at: Jill-Shelton@utc.edu
Link to historical document from SWIM’s past.
SWIM 2016
Speakers at the Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association
| Year | President | Invited Speakers |
| 2019 | Tyler Harrison | Peter Delany
Hunter Ball |
| 2018 | Michael Scullin | Tyler Harrison
Cindy May |
| 2017 | Jill Talley Shelton | Michael Scullin
Michael Beran |
| 2016 | Rachel Diana | Jill Talley Shelton
Chad S. Dodson |
| 2015 | Sean Polyn | Rachel Diana
Mark Wheeler |
| 2014 | Audrey Duarte | Sean Polyn
Rene Marois |
| 2013 | Jessica Logan | Audrey Duarte
Randy Engle |
| 2012 | Paul Merritt | Jessica Logan
Jason Hicks |
| 2011 | Keith Lyle | Paul Merritt
Michael Toglia |
| 2010 | Elizabeth Marsh | Keith Lyle
Timothy McNamara |
| 2009 | Lili Sahakyan | Elizabeth Marsh
Steven M. Smith |
| 2008 | Christopher Hertzog | Lili Sahakyan
Aaron Benjamin |
| 2007 | Dayna Touron | Christopher Hertzog
Paul Verhaeghen |
| 2006 | Bennett Schwartz | Kristi Multhaup
Janet Metcalfe |
| 2005 | Ira Fischler | Bennett Schwartz
Michael Anderson |
| 2004 | Ira Fischler | John N. Bohannon III
Lynn Reder |
| 2003 | Claudia J. Stanny | John C. Brigham
A. Daniel Yarmey |
| 2002 | Jennifer P. Peluso | Margaret Bradley |
| 2001 | John Dunlosky | Cathy L. McEvoy
Mark A. McDaniel |
| 2000 | John N. Bohannon III | Roger Ratcliff
Robert Belli |
| 1999 | M. Diane Clark | Jeff Toth
James L. Pate Marc Marschark |
| 1998 | Lynne Baker-Ward | John Dunlosky |
| 1997 | T. Darin Matthews | David C. Rubin
Brian H. Ross |
| 1996 | Dale Dagenbach | Randall W. Engle
W. Trammel Neill |
| 1995 | Katie E. Cherry | Denise Park
Robert Bjork |
| 1994 | Buddy Grah | Robyn Fivush
Peter Graf |
| 1993 | Alvin Y. Wang | Harriet Salatas Waters
Ulric Neisser |
| 1992 | Paula J. Schwanenflugel | Robert Lorch
Mark McDaniel |
| 1991 | Charles Brewer | Gilles O. Einstein
David B. Mitchell |
| 1990 | Denise Park | Larry Barsalou
Daniel Schacter |
| 1989 | Lynn Hasher | David Rubin
William Hirst |
| 1988 | Marc Marschark | Gregory Lockhead
Alan Baddeley |
| 1987 | Charles Richman | Lynn Hasher
Henry Ellis |
| 1986 | Gilles O. Einstein | Barry Stein
Henry Roediger III |
| 1985 | Reed Hunt | Bruce Britton
Marcia Johnson |
| 1984 | Robert Matthews | James Jenkins
Michael Watkins |
| 1983 | Don Hall | Ruth Day |
| 1982 | Ira Fischler | Reed Hunt
Delos Wickens |
| 1981 | Keith Clayton | Anderson Smith
Tom Landauer |
| 1980 | Doug Nelson | Ira Fischler
F. I. M. Craik |
| 1979 | Bert Sippola | John Bransford
Don Kausler |
| 1978 | Mary Fulcher Geis | Peter Ornstein
Larry Jacoby |
| 1977 | Dewey Rundus | Doug Nelson
Bennet Murdock |
| 1976 | Anderson Smith | James Deese
Allan Paivio |
| 1975 | Chizuko Izawa | John Carroll
William Estes |
| 1974 | Dave Gorfein | David Meyer
Dewey Rundus |
| 1973 | Howard Pollio | Dave Gorfein
Ernst Rothkopf |
| 1972 | Dick Kasschau | Harry Bahrick
Darryl Bruce |
| 1971 | Dick Kasschau | Slater Newman
Starling Reid |
| 1970 | Slater Newman | Howard Pollio
Gene Winograd |