Psychology Department Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Dr. Elissa Aminoff
Assistant Professor (Harvard University, 2008)
Applied Developmental
Research interests: Combination of neuroimaging techniques, individual differences, computational models, and cognitive theory; Intersection of high-level vision, memory, and associative (contextual) processing
Dr. Peggy Andover
Professor; Department Chairperson (Binghamton University, 2006)
Clinical (Child & Family)
Research interests: Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI); Attempted Suicide; NSSI and Suicide Treatment Development
Dr. Rachel Annunziato
Professor (Drexel University, 2004)
Clinical (Child & Family, Health)
Research interests: Health and Pediatric Psychology
Dr. Joshua L. Brown
Professor; Program Director, Applied Developmental (Teachers College, Columbia University, 2003)
Applied Developmental
Research interests: Social, Emotional and Academic Development; School-based Interventions
Dr. David Budescu
Anne Anastasi Professor (UNC at Chapel Hill, 1980)
Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology
Research interests: Judgment and Decision Making; Behavioral Statistics; Applied Psychometrics
Dr. Natasha L. Burke
Assistant Professor (University of South Florida, 2015)
Clinical (Health; Child & Family)
Research Interests: Eating- and weight-related disorders; health disparities; intersectionality; food insecurity; marginalized populations; sociocultural influences
Dr. Heining Cham
Associate Professor; Program Director, Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology (Arizona State University, 2013)
Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology
Research interests: Propensity Score Analysis, Latent Variable Interaction, Missing Data Analysis, Longitudinal Analysis
Dr. Christopher Conway
Associate Professor (University of California, Los Angeles, 2013)
Clinical
Research interests: Dimensional Models of Psychological Disorders, Emotional Disorders, Personality Disorders, Stress Reactivitiy
Dr. Keith Cruise
Professor (University of North Texas, 2000)
Clinical (Forensic)
Research interests: Forensic Psychology; Juvenile Justice; Assessment; Adolescent Mental Health
Dr. Leah Feuerstahler
Assistant Professor (University of Minnesota, 2016)
Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology
Research interests: Item Response Theory; Psychometric Model Specification, Fit and Interpretation; Nonparametric Methods; Bayesian Statistics
Dr. Celia Fisher
Professor, Marie Ward Doty University Chair in Ethics, and Director Fordham University Center for Ethics Education (New School for Social Research, 1978)
Applied Developmental
Research interests: Ethics; Substance Use and Abuse; Health disparities; Multiculturalism
Dr. Selin Gülgöz
Assistant Professor (University of Michigan, 2015)
Applied Developmental
Dr. Lindsay Till Hoyt
Associate Professor; Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies at Rose Hill (Northwestern University, 2013)
Applied Developmental
Dr. Alexander Kriss
Assistant Professor of Psychology Clinical Theory and Practice (The New School, 2014)
Clinical
Dr. David Marcotte
Associate Professor and Associate Director of Clinical Training
Clinical
Dr. Mark E. Mattson
Associate Professor; Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies at Lincoln Center (SUNY at Stony Brook, 1987)
Research interests: Psychology of Music; Human Error; History of Psychology
Dr. Dean McKay
Professor (Hofstra University, 1993)
Clinical
Research interests: Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Disgust in Psychopathology; Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
Dr. Haruka Minami
Associate Professor (Rutgers University, 2012)
Clinical (Health)
Research interests: Smoking cessation; Health psychology
Dr. Elizabeth Raposa
Associate Professor (University of California, Los Angeles, 2015)
Clinical
Research Interests: Early life stress; Developmental Psychopathology; Mental health disparities; Community-based interventions
Dr. Andrew Rasmussen
Professor; Associate Chair of Master's Programs (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004)
Clinical
Research interests: Cultural-Clinical Psychology; Trauma & other stressors; Immigrants & refugees; Global mental health
Dr. Monica Rivera-Mindt
Professor (University of Nebraska, 2000)
Clinical (Neuropsychology)
Research interests: Neuropsychology; HIV; Substance Use; Health Disparities
Dr. Barry Rosenfeld
Professor (University of Virginia, 1992)
Clinical (Forensic)
Research interests: Forensic Psychology; Health Psychology; Torture and Political Violence
Dr. Amy Roy
Professor; Director of Clinical Training (Temple University, 2003)
Clinical (Child & Family)
Research interests: Child Psychopathology, Neuroimaging
Dr. Karen Siedlecki
Associate Professor (University of Virginia, 2006)
Applied Developmental
Research interests: Cognitive Psychology
Dr. Harold Takooshian
Professor (City University of New York, 1979)
Undergraduate Studies
Research interests: International; Urban; I-O; Student excellence
Dr. Jing Tian
Assistant Professor (Carnegie Mellon University, 2018)
Applied Developmental
Research interests: Mathematical development, Rational number cognition, Spatial skills, STEM outcomes
Dr. H. Shellae Versey
Assistant Professor (University of Michigan, 2011)
Applied Developmental
Research interests: Social and Community Psychology; Aging and Adult Development; Mixed-Methods; Place, Space, and Embodiment; Psychology of Gender and Race; Intersectionality
Dr. Tiffany Yip
Professor (New York University, 2003)
Applied Developmental
Research interests: Ethnic/Racial Identity; Discrimination; Psychological Well-being; Adolescent/Young adult Development
Dr. Molly E. Zimmerman
Associate Professor (University of Cincinnati, 2004)
Clinical (Neuropsychology)
Research interests: Neuropsychology; Dementia; Normal aging; Sleep; Traumatic brain injury
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