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Chris Beasley, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor |
Transitions from prison to college; community-based participatory action research methods; community organizing. |
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Kima Cargill, Ph.D. | Professor | |
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Leighann Chaffee, M.A. | Associate Teaching Professor | Biopsychology of eating, neuroscience, food studies, pedagogy and development of introductory psychology, development of instructional resources. |
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Andrew Franks | Part-Time Lecturer | |
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Rachel Hershberg, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Impacts of U.S detention and deportation policies on families; transnational family processes; community-based and participatory research methods; adolescent and young adult development; developmental and community psychology. |
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Natalie Jolly, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Sociology of Reproduction, cultural experiences of childbirth, Amish women and midwifery, ethnographic methodology, qualitative research, gender norms. |
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Hyoung Suk Lee, Ph.D. | Associate Professor and SBHS Division Chair | |
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Maeve O'Donnell, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | |
| Nita McKinley, Ph.D. | Emeritus Associate Professor | Gender and gender role development across the lifespan. | |
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Lauren Montgomery, Ph.D. |
Emeritus Teaching Professor |
Developmental psychology, psychology and the arts, human relationships and clinical psychology, the evolution of consciousness, intersection of human development, technology and the natural world, experiential and community engaged learning. |
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Luke Perone, Ph.D. | Assistant Teaching Professor | Imaginative play and improvisational theater for life-span learning/development and community building; adult education; life-span human development; sociocultural theory. |
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Stephen Ross, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Eyewitness testimony; psychology and law; actual innocence/wrongful convictions; investigative interviewing; evidence-based policing |
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Amanda Sesko, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Social psychology; stereotyping, prejudice, and social judgment; intersectionality; invisibility; perceptions of Alaska Natives and American Indians |
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Carolyn West, Ph.D. | Professor | Domestic violence; sexual assault; sexualized media; African American studies |
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Jenny (Yi) Xiao, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Experimental social psychology; social identity and perception; intergroup relations; racial biases in policing; implicit attitudes and prejudice |
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Jonah Li, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Counseling psychology; positive psychology such as character strengths, meaning and purpose in life; humanistic-existential psychology; mental health in Asian American and multicultural groups |
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Julia Dancis, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Community psychology; developmental science; youth-led participatory action research; antiracist & LGBTQ+ affirming education; qualitative methods |
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Sara Eccleston, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Community Psychology; Intersection of Race, Religion, and Community Organizing; Feminist, Decolonial, and Community Based Research Methods |
