Below are the faculty of Social, Behavioral, and Human Sciences.
To search UW Tacoma faculty publications, including those by SBHS faculty, visit the UWT Library's Digital Commons.
Assistant Professor
Areas of expertise: transitions from prison to college; community-based participatory action research methods; community organizing
Contact: beasley2@uw.edu
Personal Website: www.PrisonToCollege.org
Associate Professor
Areas of expertise: intimate partner violence, family mediation and family court processes, child welfare, community- and court-based research, law student and lawyer distress and resilience, ethics
Contact: beckcj@uw.edu
Senior Lecturer
Areas of expertise: biopsychology of eating, neuroscience, food studies, pedagogy and development of introductory psychology, development of instructional resources
Contact: lchaffee@uw.edu
Senior Lecturer
Areas of expertise: the biopsychosocial effects of trauma, infant and adult attachment, Gestalt psychotherapy with individuals, couples, and groups, existential and humanistic phenomenology of self and identity, contemplative and anti-oppressive pedagogies
Contact: forrestk@uw.edu
Assistant Professor
Areas of expertise: 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
Contact: rmhersh@uw.edu
Lecturer
Areas of expertise: psychology of women and gender; sexual identities; sexual violence, abuse and deviance; feminist psychology; feminist pedagogy; scholarship of teaching and learning; self-study teacher education practices; online education
Contact: tylirm@uw.edu
Emeritus Associate Professor
Areas of expertise: gender and gender role development across the lifespan
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/nitamckinleyphd/
Senior Lecturer
Areas of expertise: 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
Contact: lmmont@uw.edu
Lecturer
Areas of expertise: imaginative play and improvisational theater for life-span learning/development and community building; adult education; life-span human development; sociocultural theory
Contact: perone@uw.edu
Assistant Professor
Contact: ramstege@uw.edu
Associate Professor and SBHS Division Chair
Areas of expertise: eyewitness testimony; psychology and law; actual innocence/wrongful convictions; investigative interviewing; evidence-based policing
Contact: sjross2@uw.edu
Personal Website: http://www.tacoma.uw.edu/cascr/
Assistant Professor
Areas of expertise: social psychology; stereotyping, prejudice, and social judgment; intersectionality; invisibility; perceptions of Alaska Natives and American Indians
Contact: aksesko@uw.edu
Professor
Areas of expertise: domestic violence; sexual assault; sexualized media; African American studies
Contact: carwest@uw.edu
Personal Website: http://www.drcarolynwest.com/
Assistant Professor
Areas of expertise: experimental social psychology; social identity and perception; intergroup relations; racial biases in policing; implicit attitudes and prejudice
Contact: yxiao2@uw.edu
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