[2] He delivered the APS David Myers Distinguished Lecture at the organization's annual conference in 2010.
[9] Benjamin won the 2001 APA Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training Award.
[7] He received the APA Ernest Hilgard Award for Career Contributions for General Psychology in 2010.
Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology hosts the annual Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. Lecture each May at the University of Akron.
His research, based on archival records at the University of Leipzig, produced the first comprehensive treatment of Wundt's American students and their subsequent careers.
Benjamin published the first archivally based histories of the Midwestern [14] and Eastern Psychological Associations,[15] which were founded in 1902 and 1903 respectively.
[18] Central to this work on organizational history is an understanding of the roles these societies played in the research careers and social and intellectual lives of those involved (and, in some cases, those who were excluded), and ultimately the role they played in shaping the course of American psychology.
Benjamin has also published extensively on the beginnings of applied psychological research in business (e.g., his research on the early forays into advertising and product testing),[19][20] education (e.g., work on child study and teaching machines),[21][22] and clinical psychology.