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About Peter Blanck
- Peter Blanck (born 1957) is an American academic, psychologist, and lawyer who holds the titles of University Professor and Chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University.Blanck was born in Elmont, New York in 1957.
- He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from University of Rochester in 1979, and a Ph.D.
- degree in social psychology from Harvard University in 1982 under the supervision of Robert Rosenthal.
- In 1981, Blanck was awarded the American Psychological Association’s Psi Chi/APA Edwin B.
- Newman Graduate Research Award, which "is presented annually to the psychology graduate student who submits the best research paper that was published or presented at a national, regional, or state psychological association convention during the past calendar year."After an additional year of postdoctoral research at Harvard University, Blanck earned a J.D.
- from the Stanford Law School in 1986.
- Blanck was elected President of the Stanford Law Review.
- He then served as a law clerk for the Honorable Carl E.
- McGowan, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
- Thereafter, Blanck was a legal associate at the Washington D.C.
- law firm Covington & Burling. Blanck returned to academia in 1990 as an associate professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law, adding a second professorship in psychology there in 1994.
- In 2002, he was named the Charles M.
- and Marion Kierscht Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law.In 2005, Blanck joined Syracuse University as University Professor, which is the highest faculty rank granted to eight prior individuals in the history of the University.
- He also is Chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University, which reaches around the globe in its efforts to advance the civic, economic, and social participation of people with disabilities with offices in Syracuse New York, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, Georgia.In 2010, Blanck was appointed as an honorary professor at National University Ireland, Galway.In 2015, he won the Distinguished Service Award of NARRTC (formerly known as the National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers), which is presented to "individuals who have made impressive contributions to the field of disability through research, teaching, service, or advocacy.
- The Distinguished Service Award is generally given for sustained contributions or an accumulation of life-time achievements.
- It is the highest recognition conferred by NARRTC."
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