James Gordon Kelly
James Gordon Kelly (December 21, 1929 - May 16, 2020) was most recently an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where he retired from in 1999. Following work at the Mental Health Study Center of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Kelly held tenured positions at Ohio State University, the University of Michigan, the University of Oregon (where he was Dean of the Wallace School of Community Service and Public Affairs), and UIC.

Jim Kelly was a participant in the 1965 Swampscott Conference, an NIMH-sponsored event that was the origin of Community Psychology in the U.S. Throughout his long and exemplary career, Kelly became internationally known for his ecological perspective in Community Psychology. He understood that this new field would need new ways of thinking and acting, so read and integrated ideas from biological ecology to develop his seminal contribution of the ecological metaphor. His ecological thinking placed heavy emphasis on the importance of settings as resources for the health of communities. This approach has been employed across disciplines to design health and mental health research and the development of prevention programs in local communities. His focus was on understanding the interdependent connections between the individual and the community. A symposium on Jim Kelly's contributions to Community Psychology and to scholars in the field was presented during the eighth biennial meeting of the Society for Community Research and Action in Atlanta in 2001. Jason et al. (2016) noted Kelly's Ecological Theory to be a central theory in the field of Community Psychology. He received the 1978 Distinguished Contribution Award and the 2001 Seymour Sarason Award from the Society for Community Research and Action (Division 27 of the American Psychological Association). He also received the Distinguished Contribution to the Public Interest from the American Psychological Association in 1997.
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University of Illinois at Chicago
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National Institute of Mental Health
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Ohio State University
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University of Michigan
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University of Oregon
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1965 Swampscott Conference
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Community Psychology
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