About Our Faculty
Psychology Department

Areas of expertise:

• Mindfulness
• Emerging Adults
• Peace psychology
• Addictions psychology
• Positive psychology
• Augmenting BIPOC happiness
• International perspectives
• Pandemic’s effects on mental health
• Multicultural counseling/psychology
• Indigenous/Native American psychology
• Underrepresented groups’ leadership development

Education:

• Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, Arizona State University
• B.A., Psychology (Minors: East Asian Civilization & Creative Writing), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Expertise

• Social Psychology
• Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination
• Disparagement humor
• Stereotype threat
• Diversity in higher education

Education

• Ph.D., Social Psychology, Tufts University, 2017
• M.A., Psychological Sciences, James Madison University, 2012
• B.A., Psychology, University of West Florida, 2010

Expertise 

• Scholarship of teaching
• Motivational interviewing
• Terror management theory

Education

• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Arizona, 2003
• M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of Arizona, 1999
• B.S., Psychology, McGill University, 1997

Expertise

• Reproductive Endocrinology
• Behavior of Mammalian Systems 
• Evolutionary Psychology 
• Mating Systems
• Mate Choice Mechanisms
• Human Sexuality

Education

• Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1993
• M.A., University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1988
• B.A., Arkansas Tech University, 1984

Areas of expertise:

• Zoology
• Animal Behavior
• Evolutionary Psychology

Education:

• Ph.D., The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2016

Expertise

• Mindfulness meditation
• Compassion
• The impact of culture on self-perception, body image and health
• Methodological issues in medical research
• The effects of Aikido training on adolescents’ well-being
• Stereotyping and prejudice
• Scholarship of teaching in higher education

Education

• Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1993
• M.A., Social Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1991
• B.S., Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, 1998

Areas of expertise:

• Cognitive Psychology
• Neuroscience of Language

Education:

• Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, 2022
• M.A. Psychology, University of Colorado Boulder, 2017
• B.A. Neuroscience and Philosophy, College of Wooster, 2014

Expertise

• Teaching and learning
• Human development 
• Acculturation
• Heritage language issues
• Bilingualism
• Achievement gap
• Tutoring and mentoring

Education

• Ph.D., Educational Psychology, Applied Cognition and Development Program, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, May, 2017
  Advisor: Pedro R. Portes, Ph.D.
  Committee: Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, Ph.D; Louis Castenell, Ph.D; Stephen Cramer, Ph.D.
  Dissertation: The Impact of Spanish First Language Proficiency on English Second Language Achievement: The Development and Pilot Validation of the CLASE Language Assessment Inventory-Spanish.
   
• M.A., Educational Psychology, Applied Cognition and Development Program, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, December 2011
  Advisor: Paula Schwanenflugel, Ph.D.
  Thesis: The Impact of Expressiveness on the Comprehension of Storybooks by Prekindergarten Children.
   
• B.A., Anthropology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, May, 2006

Expertise

• Academic engagement
• Adolescent and young adult development
• College persistence and success
• Cultural values
• Lifespan development psychology
• Racial/ethnic identity
• Positive youth development

Education

• Ph.D., Psychology and Education, University of Michigan, 2007
• M.A., Psychology, Wake Forest University, 1992
• B.A., Psychology, Wake Forest University, 1990

Expertise:

• Attraction
• Psychology of gender
• Relationships
• Sexism
• Sexuality
• Social psychology

Education:

• Ph.D., Social Psychology, Texas A&M University, 2014
• B.A., Psychology, Lamar University, 2008

Expertise 

• Clinical psychology
• Adolescent therapy 
• Cultural adaptation 
• Community-based services 

Education

• Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, University of Utah, 2013 
• M.S., Educational Psychology, University of Utah, 2010 
• B.A., Political Science and Russian and East European Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2000