Chris Hulleman '93
Football
Hulleman was a member of three conference champion football squads with three NCAA playoff berths. He served as a 1992 team co-captain and received second-team all-conference honors in 1991 and first-team recognition in 1992 while being named to the Football Gazette and Champion Division III SIDs all-America squads. He was also tabbed for the CoSIDA Academic All-America team.
Hulleman then earned a graduate diploma at the University of Western Australia before gaining master’s and doctoral degrees in social and personality psychology at the University of Wisconsin. He was a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at Peabody College’s Learning Services Institute at Vanderbilt University and was a research affiliate at Peabody’s National Center for Performance Incentives. He joined the James Madison University faculty in 2009 as assistant professor of graduate psychology where he became co-director of the Motivation Research Institute.
In 2012, Hulleman took his present post as research associate professor in the Department of Leadership, Foundations and Policy Studies in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, where he is also a fellow of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He’s received numerous awards for his work.
Hulleman spent this past year on a fellowship with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He and his family live in Harrisonburg, Va.
2015 Athletics Hall of Honor inductees: Jason Christenson '91, Randy Busscher '75, Chris Hulleman '93, Abbie Brown Sogard '00.
