Sami Abuhamdeh
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Istanbul Sehir University
Ph.D. 2008
Dissertation: What Makes an Intrinsically Motivated Activity Intrinsically Motivated: The Role of Challenge
Karen Hunt Ahmed
Assistant Professor of Finance and Management at DePaul University
Ph.D. 2007
Dissertation: The "Business" of Culture: Morality and Practice in Islamic Finance
David Ansari
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Washington University
Ph.D. 2018
David Ansari is a medical anthropologist with research and teaching interests at the intersections of health and human rights, transnational migration, health services research, and ethnographies of organizations.
Dissertation: "Dare to be a future therapist”: Uncertainty and apprenticeship in mental health services for immigrants and refugees in Paris, France.
Kiyoshi Asakawa
Professor at the Graduate School of Intercultural Communication Major in Intercultural Communication, Hosei University
Ph.D. 1997
Dissertation: The Experience of Interdependence and Independence in the Self-Construal Asian American and Caucasian American Adolescents: Feelings, of Connectedness and Academic Motivation
Michael Axelman
CARE Parenting & Child Counseling
Ph.D. 1999
Dissertation: The Rational Experiences of African-American Adolescents and the Role of Significant Adults: An Examination of Teenage Lives During the Transition to High School
Sue H. Bae
Sue H. Bae, Ph.D. & Associates
Ph.D. 2001
Dissertation: The Experience of Professional Autonomy among Psychotherapists in Korea and the West
Deanna Barenboim
Department of Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College
Dissertation: Belonging Out of Place: Navigating ‘Illegality’ and Indigeneity in Migrant Maya California
Naomi Bartz-McCormick
Research Project Manager in the Rehab Research Lab of William C. Miller at The University of British Columbia
M.A. 2009
Master's Thesis: "Nothing for Us Without Us:" Local Political Responses to City-Led Strategies of Neighbourhood Revitalization
Les Beldo
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Oberlin College and Conservatory
Dissertation: Atheism & Orthodoxy: An Analysis of Moral Reasoning in the American Culture Wars
Douglas Bell
Adjunct Professor, Department of Cinema Arts & Science, Columbia College Chicago
Ph.D. 1994
Dissertation: Meetings on the Horizon of Meanings: A Cultural Analysis of Adolescents "Reading" AIDS
Will Bennis
University of New York in Prague
Dissertation: Experience, Values, Beliefs, and the Sociocultural Context In Gambling Decision Making: A Field Study of Casino Blackjack
Sam Bergmann
Professor of Psychology, Montgomery College
Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: Who Wears the Pants?: Family Roles, Gender Role Identity, and Relationship Quality Among Female Co-Parenting Couples
Elise Berman
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Children Have Nothing to Hide: Deception, Age, and Avoiding Giving in the Marshall Islands
Ronan Bernas
Professor, Department of Psychology, Eastern Illinois University
Ph.D. 1995
Dissertation: Choosing and Maintaining a Position on a Socio-moral Issue: An Argumentative Reasoning Approach
Rita Biagioli
Associate Director, Behavioral Insights Initiative, University of Chicago Provost's Office & Harry L. Davis Center for Leadership, Booth School of Business
Ph.D. 2018
Dissertation: When Perceiving and Thinking about Reality as Relational Motivates Ritual Behavior: A Study of How Bengali Hindus in the U.S. and in India (Come to) Cognize Gods as Material
Matthew Bird
Professor, Universidad del Pacífico Research Center
Ph.D. 2010
Dissertation: The Other Paths: Cultural Economics, Comparative Economic Performance, and the Formation of Capitalist Mentalities in Lima Peru
Mark Blumberg
F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa
Ph.D. 1988
Dissertation: The Interactions Between Sexual Behavior and Thermoregulation in the Male Rat
Lihanna Borhan
Department of Psychology, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia
Ph.D. 1998
Dissertation: Self-Image of Malaysian Adolescents
Laura Braff
Cultural Anthropology Professor, Grossmont College
Ph.D. 2010
Dissertation: Re/conceiving Personhood: The Localization of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mexico City
Rachel S. Brezis
Foundation for Psychocultural Research Postdoctoral Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: Social and Non-Social Memory in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Nicole Brodsky
Independent film producer for educational television
Ph.D. 1998
Dissertation: Art imitates life imitates art: Evolving themes in the lives and works of creative artists
Jason Bruck
Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University
Ph.D. 2013
Dissertation: New Perspectives on Dolphin Whistles: Evaluating Signal Context, Categorization and Memory
Nancy Burke
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University
Ph.D. 1990
Dissertation: Freud, time, and the content of philosophy
Nadxieli Toledo Bustamante
Independent Researcher
Ph.D. 2018
Dissertation: Socializing Attention, Emerging Participation and Language Choice: Three Case Studies in Juchitán, Oaxaca, México.
Joseph Calabrese
Reader of Medical Anthropology, Tutor of MSc Medical Anthropology, University College London
Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Mirror of the Soul: Cultural Psychiatry, Moral Socialization and the Development of the Self in the Native American Church
Jean K Carney
Retired Developmental Psychologist, Author
Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: Intrinsic Motivation and Artistic Success
Julia Cassaniti
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Washington State University
Dissertation: Control in a World of Change: Emotion and Morality in a Northern Thai Town
Michael Chladek
Senior Research Associate, Clinical Outcomes Solution
Ph.D. 2017
Dissertation: Making Monks, Making Men: The Role of Buddhist Monasticism in Shaping Northern Thai Identities
In-Soo Choe
Associate Professor, Department of Child Psychology and Education, Sungkyunkwan University
Ph.D. 1995
Dissertation: Motivation, Subjective Experience, Family and Academic Achievement in Korean High School Students
Choi Christina (Sung Aie)
Therapist, The Gottman Institute
Dissertation: The survival strategies of middle-aged women in Korea
Cindy Dell Clark
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
Ph.D. 1991
Dissertation: The Cultural Psychology of Christmas and Easter-with Special Reference to Children
Chris Collins
Associate Dean for Leadership Development for the Full-Time MBA Program, University of Chicago
Dissertation: Regulatory Focus in the Context of Work: The Social Impact of Promotion Tactics
Lindsey Conklin
Research Associate, Gehl Institute, New York City
Ph.D. 2018
Dissertation: Cartography of Courtship: Space, Community, and Self in Amman, Jordan
Amy Cooper
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Saint Louis University
Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Vital Politics: Medicine and Citizenship in Venezuela
Katherine Corcoran
Psychologist
Ph.D. 1995
Dissertation: Perceptions of self-change in adolescent development from an interpersonal therapeutic perspective
Suzanne M. Cox
Professor, Department of Psychology, Beloit College
Ph.D. 1994
Dissertation: Attachment in Preterm Infants and Their Mothers: Neonatal Risk Status and Maternal Representations
Sean Coyne
Assistant Professor, Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Notre Dame of Maryland University
Ph.D. 2017
Dissertation: The Ontogeny of Sexual Maturation: Factors Affecting the Development of Sexual Signal Production, Perception, and Behavior in Adolescent Female Rhesus Macaques
Bianca Dahl
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: Left Behind? Orphaned Children and the Politics of Kinship, Culture, and Caregiving during Botswana's AIDS Crisis
Elizabeth Davies
Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of St. Francis
Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Retrospective Reevaluation of Personally Salient Events: A Longitudinal Study
Norma Dávila
Director, The Human Factor Consulting Group
Ph.D. 1991
Dissertation: Patients' experiences of therapeutic support early in treatment: The effects of current social network, general expectations, and anticipated difficulties on patients' evaluations and response to individual psychotherapy
Eric S De Vos
Professor of Psychology, Saginaw Valley State University
Ph.D. 1992
Dissertation: Complications of Labor: Newborn Behavioral Correlates, and Prenatal Psychological Mediation
David deBoer
Associate Director, Wellness Center, Loyola University Chicago
Ph.D. 1999
Dissertation: Vicissitudes of Hope in the Lazarus Effect: Psychological Responses of HIV-Positive Gay Men in the Post Era of HIV and AIDS
Edward Jay Donner
Clinical Psychologist at Aandrus Medical Center
Ph.D. 1989
Dissertation: The contributions of arousal and mood to health and illness
Ashley Elizabeth Drake
Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2020
Bucknell University, B.A. Psychology and Anthropology
University of Chicago, M.A. Comparative Human Development
Dissertation Thesis: Militarizing Affection: The Making of the Military Working Dog Team
Research interests: Medical anthropology; science and technology studies; multispecies ethnography; affect; embodiment; anthropology of the military; United States
Daryl Dugas
Assistant Professor, Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology, and Foundations, Northern Illinois University
Ph.D. 2013
Dissertation: Becoming Adult/Becoming Teacher: Classroom Management as a Site of Tension in Negotiating Emerging Identities
Sarah Sellergren Dunn
Executive Director, Suicide Prevention Action Network of Teton Valley, ID
Owner, Sarah Dunn Medical Counseling and Consulting, LLC, Driggs, ID
Ph.D. 2013
Dissertation: Living With Increased Risk for Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Do Religion and Spirituality Influence Health Behavior?
Antonie Dvorakova
Researcher at Palacky University in Olomouc (Czech Republic)
Ph.D. 2014
Dissertation: Beyond the “Two Worlds”: Native American Scholars’ Experience
Carol Edwards
Project Manager at Southern California Edison Company
Ph.D. 1995
Dissertation: The social construction of extraordinary selves: A life span study of creative individuals
Jean Ehrenberg
Psychologist with the Mediators of Texas
Ph.D. 1989
Dissertation: The effect of analytic instructions on young children's ability to solve scientific problems systematically
Johanne Eliacin
Associated Health Postdoctoral Fellow at Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center
Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: An Ethnographic Study of the "Epidemic" of Schizophrenia Among African-Caribbeans in England
Richard Epstein
Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University
Dissertation: Beyond the Yellow Door: Outcome and Follow-Up Studies in a Residential Treatment Center
Allison Fasoli
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Middlebury College
Ph.D. 2013
Dissertation: Moral psychology and the socialization of helping in evangelical Christian families
Elizabeth Fein
Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, Duquesne University
Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: The Machine Within: An Ethnography of Asperger's syndrome, Biomedicine, and the Paradoxes of Identity and Technology in the Late Modern United States
Brent Finger
Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Montana State University, Billings
Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Exploring the Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment Disorganization
Alan Fiske
Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. 1985
Dissertation: How culture, psychology, and natural selection operate together to shape human sociality
Linda May Fitzgerald
Professor in the College of Education at the University of Northern Iowa
Ph.D. 1990
Dissertation: Contributions of home and child care to competence in early childhood
Christine Fleener
Lead Outdoor Educator at Trackers Earth Forest School in Portland, Oregon
Ph.D. 2018
Dissertation: Growing up Rhesus: A dynamic systems approach to spatial cognitive development and early experience in free-ranging rhesus
Rebecca Frausel
Research Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D. 2018
Dissertation: Narratives of Personal Experience in Early Parent-Child Interactions: Developmental Trajectories and Relations to Higher-Order Thinking
Heidi Fung
Professor in the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica, Taipei
Ph.D. 1994
Dissertation: The Socialization of Shame in Young Chinese Children
Susan Gans
Professor in the Department of Psychology at West Chester University
Ph.D. 1993
Dissertation: Individual Differences in Reproductive Behaviors and Physiology in Rats
Lawrence Gianinno
Research Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development
Ph.D. 1999
Dissertation: Children's understandings of everyday economic practices
Barbara Elizabeth Glaessner
Oral Historian at Narrative Portraits
Ph.D. 1994
Dissertation: Bilingual Children in School: The Negotiation of Language Use in a First Grade Classroom
Christine Glover
Instructor of Psychology at McHenry County College
Ph.D. 2003
Dissertation: What Women Want: The Role of the Social Environment on Romantic Partner Preferences
Lainie (Ilaina) Goldwert
Licensed clinical psychologist & Applied psychological anthropologist, in-sync
Ph.D. 2013
David Scott Gortner
Director of the Doctor of Ministry programs, and Professor of Evangelism and Congregational Leadership at the Virginia Theological Seminary
Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Varieties of Young Adult Personal Theologies: Content, formative Influences, and Current Relationships to Everyday Life
Andrew Guest
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portland
Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Cultural processes of psychosocial competence and middle childhood: Play, self-esteem, and teamwork in two distinct impoverished communities
Phil Hammack
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California Santa Cruz
Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: The Narrative Stalemate: Conflict, Identity and the Cultural Psychology of Israeli and Palestinian Adolescence
Amir Hampel
Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
Ph.D. 2017
Dissertation: From Mask to Mirror: Self as Object in Chinese Psychology
Andrew Harlem
Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at California Institute of Integral Studies
Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: The Making of the 'Culturally Competent' Psychologist: A Study of Educational Discourse and Practice
Keisha Harris
Researcher, Research and Evaluation Division, Youth Development Practice area, American Institutes for Research
Ph.D. 2018
Dissertation: "Somos Uma Salada de Fruta": Adolescent Achievement in Utopian Brazilian and Colombian Structures of Opportunity
Eleanor Haspel-Portner
Private Practice, Clinical Psychologist & Researcher
Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: Sociocultural Factors in the Development of Guilt: Jewish Parents and Children in Chicago
Joel Hektner
Professor in the Department of Child Development and Family Science at North Dakota State University
Ph.D 1996
Dissertation: Exploring Optimal Personality Development: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents
Gretchen Hermes
Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine
Ph.D. 2003
Dissertation: The Embodiment of Social Isolation: Bio-Behavioral Systems, Pre-Disease Pathways, and Patterns of Aging
Jacob R. Hickman
Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Brigham Young University
Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: Morality and Personhood in the Hmong Diaspora: A Person-Centered Ethnography of Migration and Resettlement
Christy Hoffman
Assistant Professor in Animal Behavior, Conservation and Ecology at Canisius College
Ph.D. 2010
Dissertation: Costs of reproduction among rhesus macaque females on Cayo Santiago
Lisa Hoogstra
Senior Researcher at the American Institutes for Research
Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: Divergent Paths after High School: Transitions to College and Work
Laura Horton
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas-Austin
Ph.D. 2018
Laura Horton's work combines ethnographic, computational and linguistic elicitation methods and engages with the fields of linguistic anthropology, developmental psychology, language acquisition and education.
Dissertation: Conventionalization of Shared Homesign Systems in Guatemala: Social, Lexical and Morphophonological Dimensions
Randall Horton
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Seattle University
Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Refining Theory and Practice in the Cultural Psychology of Emotion: Tibetan Anger and the Roots of the Modern Tibetan Commitment to Non-Violence
Pinky Hota
Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Smith College
Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Affecting Violence: Development, Religion and Indigeneity in Kandhamal
Alexis Howard
Associate at McKinsey & Company
Ph.D. 2019
Dissertation: The role of sociocultural context in shaping disability outcomes among aging Latinos in the United States: A mixed methods approach
Steven A. Jacobs
Ph.D. 2019
Dissertation: Balancing Abortion Rights and Fetal Rights: A Mixed Methods Mediation of the U.S. Abortion Debate
Lene Arnett Jensen
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University
Ph.D. 1996
Dissertation: Different Habits, Different Hearts: Orthodoxy and Progressivism in the United States and India
Kamaya M. Jones
Senior Researcher at Huge Inc.
Ph.D. 2016
Dissertation: Teaching 'Neka: An Exploratory Study of Teacher-Student Relationships at One High-Achieving Urban Public School
Eunsun Joo
Professor in the Department of Psychology at Duksung Women's University in Seoul, Korea
Ph.D. 1996
Dissertation: Different Habits, The psychotherapeutic relationship in Korea: Cross-national and internal cultural comparison
Ernst Karel
Lecturer on Anthropology, Assistant Director of the Film Study Center, and Lab Manager for the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University
Ph.D. 2003
Dissertation: Kerala Sound Electricals: Amplified sound and cultural meaning in South India
Layla Kassem
Psychologist at Human Genetics
Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Psychotherapy Between Two Cultures: A Portrait of Psychotherapists in Egypt
David W. Kern
Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern Illinois University
Ph.D. 2015
Dissertation: Olfactory Function And The Physical, Cognitive, And Social Health Of The Aging Population Of The United States
Michéle Koven
Associate Professor of Communication, Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, LAS Global Studies and the French European Union Center
Ph.D. 1999
Dissertation: French-Portuguese Bilinguals' Enactments of Self In Two Languages
Julia Kowalski
Assistant Professor of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
Ph.D. 2014
Dissertation: Claiming Care: Regulating Gendered Violence in Jaipur's Women's Rights Network
Sean P. Larvie
UX Researcher with Google
Ph.D. 1998
Dissertation: Managing Desire: Sexual, Citizenship and AIDS in Contemporary Brazil
Helen Levesque
Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University at Bloomington
Ph.D. 1994
Dissertation: Women's Definitions of Feminity: An Investigation of Social Class Differences
Roger J.R. Levesque
Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University at Bloomington
Ph.D. 1990
Dissertation: Adolescents in love: An exploration of adolescent love experiences across and within five sociocultural groups
Lisa Sharon Lombard
Clinical Psychologist at Own Practice
Ph.D. 1991
Dissertation: Narcissistic consequences of female infertility: Disruption and restoration
Emily Anne Lyons
Ph.D. 2019
Dissertation: Learning Under Pressure: Stereotype Threat and Evaluative Performance Pressure in the Mathematics Classroom
Zhiying Ma
Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Ph.D. 2017
Dissertation: Insanity, Intimacy, and Institution: Governance and Care Under the Mental Health Legal Reform in Contemporary China
Tara Mandalaywala
Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ph.D. 2014
Dissertation: Effects of early life experience on infant rhesus macaque cognition and stress physiology
Tasneem Mandviwala
Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2019
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Dissertation: That Thing on Their Heads: How Muslim American Women Became Navigators of a New Culture
Jocelyn Marrow
Senior Study Director, Westat, Inc
Ph.D. 2008
Dissertation: Psychiatry, Modernity and Family Values: Clenched Teeth Illness in North India
Erin McFee
Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC)
Dissertation: An Ambivalent Peace: Mistrust, Reconciliation, and the Intervention Encounter in Colombia
Usha Menon
Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Culture and Communications at Drexel University
Ph.D. 1995
Dissertation:Receiving and giving: Distributivity as the source of women's well being
Joan Miller
Professor of Psychology and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Psychology at New School for Social Research
Ph.D. 1982
Dissertation: Culture and the Development of Social Explanation
Erin Moore
Columbia University, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Post-Doc
Ph.D. 2016
Dissertation: Translating Girl's Empowerment: Gender, Adolescence, and Transnational NGOs in Urban Uganda
Neely Anne Laurenzo Myers
Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University
Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: Culture of Recovery: Schizophrenia, the United states Mental Health Care System, and the American Ethos of the Self-Made Man
Olin E (Gene) Jr. Myers
Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University
Ph.D. 1994
Jeanne Nakamura
Associate Professor in the Division of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University
Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: Sustaining Engagement: Continuity and Change into Later Life
Nora Nickels
Assistant Professor of Psychological Science at Carthage College
Ph.D. 2019
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Acute Psychosocial Stress, Hormones, Cognition, and Social Science Behavior in Men and Women
Patrick Nicoletti
Chair, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Ph.D. 2000
Dissertation: The impact of social status on preschoolers' display of direct and ritualized responses to peer conflict
Nancy Nordmann
Faculty at National Louis University
Ph.D. 1991
Dissertation: An autogenetic approach to interpersonal development
Charles Nuckolls
Professor of Anthropology, Department Chair, and Director of the India Field School at Brigham Young University
Ph.D. 1987
Christine Nutter El Ouardani
Assistant Professor of Human Development at California State University Long Beach
Ph.D. 2013
Dissertation: Discipline and Development: Negotiating Childhood and Authority in Rural Morocco
Carly Offidani-Bertrand
Assistant Professor (Tenure-track), Human Development, California State University San Marcos
Ph.D. 2019
Dissertation: Understanding Collective Adaptation to External Threat: A Case Study of a Mixed Status Immigrant Community in Chicago
Kristina Lynn Pagel
Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2020
University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, B.S. Psychology with minors in Biology, Chemistry, and Neuroscience
University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, M.S. Experimental Psychology
Master's thesis: The Measurement of Cytokines in Examining Health and Well-Being during Aging
Research: Comparative behavioral biology; immune function; human development and health across the lifespan
Suzanne Pelka
Therapist, Sexuality Specialist
Ph.D. 2005
Dissertation: Lesbian Couples Using In-Vitro Fertilization to Co-Mother: A Cultural Study of Biological Ties
Laura C. Perez-Felkner
Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Sociology in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Florida State University;
Affiliated Faculty member in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Higher Education Research, Teaching, and Innovation (CHERTI) at FSU; Research Affiliate of the Joint Centers for Education Research and Population Research Center at NORC at the University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: Cultivating College Dreams: Social Pathways to Educational Attainment
Nadia Persun
Licensed Clinical Psychologist at GreenPath Clinic
Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Choosing Marriage or Cohabitation: Understanding Psychosocial Precedents and Effects on Personal and Relationship Satisfaction
Sarah Ann Picket
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois-Chicago
Ph.D. 1990
Dissertation: Parental burden and a chronically mentally ill offspring's vocational outcome: Exploring the connections
Deborah Leman Pool
Vice President of Product Development at Kindermusik International
Ph.D. 1989
Dissertation: Thinking about right and wrong: A study of children's and adults' understanding of "moral," "traditional," and "prudential" breaches
Séamus Power
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, University of Copenhagen
Ph.D. 2017
Dr. Séamus Power is a trans-disciplinary scholar with expertise in social, cultural, and political psychology.
Dissertation: From the elites to the streets: the psychology of democracy and economic inequality
Aarti Pyati
Clinical Psychologist
Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Going the Cultural Distance: Worldview-relevant counseling at India's Premiere Psychiatric Institute
Xu Qin
Assistant Professor in the Research Methodology Program of the Department of Psychology in Education, University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. 2017
Dissertation: Causal Mediation Analysis in Multi-Site Trials
Marcela Raffaelli
Professor in the Department of Human Development & Family Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. 1990
Dissertation: Sibling conflict in early adolescence
Barnaby B. Reidel
Chief Research Strategist at Riedel Strategy
Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: The Character Conjuncture: Islamic Education and its Social Reproduction in the United States
James Roney
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California Santa Barbara
Ph.D 2002
Dissertation: Psychological and Hormonal Responses of Men to Sensory Cues from Women (William Henry Prize)
Shana Fruehan Sandberg
Senior Research Scientist, NORC at the University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2010
Dissertation: Embodying Intimacy: Premarital Romantic Relationships, Sexuality, and Contraceptive Use Among Young Women in Contemporary Tokyo
Shaifali Sandhya
Director of CARE Family Consultation
Part-Time Lecturer, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, Spring 2016
Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: A Study of Hindu Married Couples: The Role of Family Living Arrangements and Gender in Maintaining Happiness and Well-Being
Keith R. Sawyer
Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations at the University of North Carolina
Ph.D. 1994
Dissertation: The Performance of Pretend Play: Enacting Peer Culture in Conversation
Jennifer Schmidt
Associate Professor, Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education, Michigan State University
Ph.D. 1998
Dissertation: Overcoming Challenges: Exploring the Role of Action, Experience, and Opportunity in Fostering Resilience among Adolescents
Aaron T. Seaman
Post-Doc at The University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine
Ph.D. 2016
Dissertation: Figuring Families: Caregiving in the Midst of Alzheimer's Disease
Nancy L. Segal
Professor of Psychology, California State University, Fullerton and Director, Twin Studies Center
Ph.D. 1982
Dissertation: Cooperation, Competion and Altruism Within Twin Sets: A Reappraisal
Lilah Shapiro
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Human Development & Social Policy, Northwestern University
Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Driven to Orthodoxy: Jewish Identity and Narratives of Exceptionalism, Essentialism, and the Family in American Jewish Culture as Motivations of "Conversion" to Orthodox Judaism
Benjamin Smith
Assistant Professor of Human Development, Sonoma State University
Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: Language and the Emergence of Masculine Potency in Peruvian Aymara Boyhood
Amy June Sousa
Senior User Experience Researcher at Microsoft working on Surface
Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: Pragmatic Ethics, Sensible Care: Psychiatry and Schizophrenia in North India
Maria Ann Sullivan
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University
Ph.D. 1990
Dissertation: The Cultural Meanings of Mental Illness: Depression and Alcoholism Among the Irish
Jill Dianne Swenson
President of Swenson Book Development
Ph.D. 1989
Dissertation: TV news viewers: Making meaning out of Iran Contra
Margarita Terragona
Director of PositivaMente
Ph.D. 1989
Dissertation: Patients' Experiences of Psychotherapy between Sessions: Their Relationship to Some Input, Process, and Output Variables of Psychotherapy
Gregory Thompson
Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Brigham Young University
Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: Involving Identity: a study of the effects of identity in-interaction on the involvement of tutees in the tutoring encounter
Sarah Van Deusen Phillips
Manager, Medical Volunteer Programs at Chicago Event Management
Ph.D. 2008
Dissertation: When Looking is Listening: Gesture, Multi-Modal Language, and the Socialization of Deaf Children in Castellano-Speaking Families
Gabriel Velez
Assistant Professor, Marquette University
Ph.D. 2019
Dissertation: Conceptualized Peace: A Study of Columbian Adolescents' Meaning Making and Civic Development
Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer
Clinical Associate Professor and M.A. Program Coordinator, Psychology Department, New York University
Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: Making the Connection: Psychosocial Wellbeing, Group Psychotherapy and On-line Support Groups for Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer
Lauren S. Wakschlag
Professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University
Ph.D. 1992
Dissertation: Intergenerational Continuities: The Influence of Mother-Grandmother Relationships on Parenting in the African-American Young Mother Families
Janet Walker
Research Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Portland State University
Dissertation: Manufacturing Reality: Gender, Culture, and the Resolution of Everyday Moral Conflicts
Kim Walters
Assistant Professor of International Studies at California State University, Long Beach
Ph.D. 2015
Dissertation: Our Family Girls: From Sex Work to Sex Trafficking in South India
Ning Wang
Assistant Professor, School of Politics and Global Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: The Making of a Market Economy: The Institutional Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community
Talia Weiner
Transdisciplinary Fellowship in Primary Care Research, Case Western Reserve University
Ph.D. 2017
Dissertation: Home of the Blues: The Political Economy of Mood DIsorder, Self-Management in 21st Century Chicago
Jessica Whitham
Animal Welfare Biologist for the Chicago Zoological Society
Ph.D. 2007
Dissertation: The Grunt and Girney Vocalizations of Free-Ranging Female Rhesus Macaques
Judith B Wilen
Faculty, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice
Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: Adolescent Adjustment and the Parent-Child Relationship
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Maria Wong
Professor of Experimental Psychology at Idaho State University
Ph.D. 1992
Dissertation: Autonomy, Quality of Experience, and Academic Performance
Stanton Wortham
Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. 1992
Dissertation: Participant Examples and Classroom Interaction