Sami Abuhamdeh
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Psychology, Marmara 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
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois-Chicago
Ph.D. 2018
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
Instructional Support Professional, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2014
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
Scholar, University of Economics and Business, Prague
Ph.D. 2004
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
Associate 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
Data Scientist and Instructor at Metis
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
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia
Ph.D. 1998
Dissertation: Self-Image of Malaysian Adolescents
Lara 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
Research Associate, Reichman University (formerly the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya)
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
Amanda Brown
Associate Researcher, School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas
Ph.D. 2021
Dissertation: Reevaluating Pretend Play at Home: Children's Individual Variation, Parent Participation, and Developmental Outcomes
Jason Bruck
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Stephen F. Austin 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
Assistant Professor, College of Education, California State University
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
Sarah Cashdollar
Research Specialist, Illinois Education and Workforce Research Consortium, housed at the Discovery Partners Institute at the University of Illinois
Ph.D. 2021
Dissertation: Career and Technical Education in the Era of College and Career Readiness: Influences on Youth Postsecondary Aspirations in 'Oaksburg, USA'
Julia Cassaniti
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Washington State University
Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: Control in a World of Change: Emotion and Morality in a Northern Thai Town
Michael Chladek
Qualitative Researcher, IQVIA
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
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
Ph.D. 2016
Dissertation: Regulatory Focus in the Context of Work: The Social Impact of Promotion Tactics
Lindsey Conklin
UX Researcher at Bold Insight
Ph.D. 2018
Dissertation: Cartography of Courtship: Space, Community, and Self in Amman, Jordan
Amy Cooper
Associate Professor, Anthropology & Sociology, 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 Emeritus of Psychology, Saginaw Valley State University
Ph.D. 1992
Dissertation: Complications of Labor: Newborn Behavioral Correlates, and Prenatal Psychological Mediation
David deBoer
Director of Counseling, 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
Natalie Dowling
Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation: Obviously I Don't Know but Whatever: Emblematic and Pragmatic Uses of Shrug Gestures in Early Childhoood and Adolescence
Ashley Elizabeth Drake
Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2020
Dissertation: Militarizing Affection: The Making of the Military Working Dog Team
Daryl Dugas
Associate 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
Senior 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
Assistant Research Professor in Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine
Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: An Ethnographic Study of the "Epidemic" of Schizophrenia Among African-Caribbeans in England
Richard Epstein
Research Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University
Dissertation: Beyond the Yellow Door: Outcome and Follow-Up Studies in a Residential Treatment Center
Allison Fasoli
Research Scholar at Middlebury College
Ph.D. 2013
Dissertation: Moral psychology and the socialization of helping in evangelical Christian families
Elizabeth Fein
Associate 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
Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Montana State University, Billings
Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation: Exploring the Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment Disorganization
Alan Fiske
Distinguished 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 Emerita in the Iowa Regents' Center for Early Developmental 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
Associate Director of Research and Evaluation, Susan Hirt Hagen CORE; Assistant Research Professor, Psychology, Penn State Behrend
Ph.D. 2018
Dissertation: Narratives of Personal Experience in Early Parent-Child Interactions: Developmental Trajectories and Relations to Higher-Order Thinking
Heidi Fung
Emeritus Research Fellow 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
Assistant Professor of Psychology at The New School; Licensed clinical psychologist & Applied psychological anthropologist, in-sync
Ph.D. 2013
David Scott Gortner
Principal Investigator and Instructor at Thriving in Ministry, a Lilly-funded VTS initiative
Ph.D. 2004
Dissertation: Varieties of Young Adult Personal Theologies: Content, formative Influences, and Current Relationships to Everyday Life
Andrew Guest
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
Resney Gugwor
MA Teaching Fellow, Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2021
Dissertation: “Making Ends Meet”: The Structuring Role of Financial Distress as Black and Latinx Emerging Adults Enter College
Jennifer Hall
NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Social Work Social Intervention Group, Columbia University
Ph.D. 2020
Dissertation: Parenting within the Hyperghetto Carceral Complex: Making Meaning of Youth Behavior and Parental Identity
Phil Hammack
Professor and Chair of 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
Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Global China Studies, New York University Shanghai
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
Keshia Harris
Research Associate, Renee Crown Wellness Institute of the University of Colorado Boulder
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 and Head 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
Assistant Professor 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
Associate 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
Associate Professor in Animal Behavior, Conservation and Ecology at Canisius College
Ph.D. 2010
Dissertation: Costs of reproduction among rhesus macaque females on Cayo Santiago
Laura Horton
Assistant Professor, Department of Language Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. 2018
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, Anthropology, Smith College
Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Affecting Violence: Development, Religion and Indigeneity in Kandhamal
Alexis Howard
Engagement Manager 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
Senior Research Scientist 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
Studio Innovation Research Principal of Animation at Netflix
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 the National Institute of Mental Health
Ph.D. 2012
Dissertation: Psychotherapy Between Two Cultures: A Portrait of Psychotherapists in Egypt
Michael Kaufman
Founder, Kaufman Advisory; Senior Research Scientist, Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute
Ph.D. 2014
David W. Kern
Teacher, Isidore Newman School, Math and Science Departments
Ph.D. 2015
Dissertation: Olfactory Function And The Physical, Cognitive, And Social Health Of The Aging Population Of The United States
Michéle Koven
Professor, Department of Communication, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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 Lee
Senior Researcher, Foundry10
Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation: Discussing Race: Pathways and Barriers to Critical Consciousness Development for Chinese American Youth
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
Bronwyn Nichols Lodato
Ph.D. 2021
Dissertation: Riding the (Shock)Wave: Diverse Young Adult Phenomenological Processes and Postsecondary Experiences through the Great Recession and COVID-19
Lisa Sharon Lombard
Clinical Psychologist
Ph.D. 1991
Dissertation: Narcissistic consequences of female infertility: Disruption and restoration
Emily Anne Lyons
Assistant Professor, Elementary Science Education, Springfield College (Massachusetts)
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
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2019
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
Paula Martin
Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation: Pacticing Gender: The Meanings and Uses of Gender Affirming Care for Youth in the United States
Erin McFee
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC)
Ph.D. 2019
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
Almaz Mesghina
Assistant Professor of Instruction and Weinberg College Adviser, Northwestern University
Ph.D. 2021
Dissertation: From Distress to “Eustress”: Contextual and Cognitive Factors in the Arousal-Performance Relationship
Sanja Miklin
MA Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2021
Dissertation: Containing 'Suicide': Scientific, Public and Political Aspects of a Moral Problem
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
Assistant Professor, Anthropology and the History of Medicine, The Ohio State University
Ph.D. 2016
Dissertation: Translating Girl's Empowerment: Gender, Adolescence, and Transnational NGOs in Urban Uganda
Neely Anne Laurenzo Myers
Associate 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
Dissertation: Young Children's Sense of Connection to Animals: The Developmental Basis of an Ecological Self
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, University of Saint Joseph
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
Sevda Numanbayraktaroglu
Associate Instructional Professor, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2010
Dissertation: Language, Self and Context: Socio-Historical Constitution and Interactional Actualization of the Self Through Discourse Genres; the Case of Turkish Heteroglossia
Christine Nutter El Ouardani
Associate 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
Assistant Professor, Colorado Mesa University
Ph.D. 2020
Dissertation: Biological and Psychosocial Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease: Validating and Analyzing Cytokines in Older U.S. Adults
Suzanne Pelka
Founder and Clinical Director of Psychotherapy Works
Ph.D. 2005
Dissertation: Lesbian Couples Using In-Vitro Fertilization to Co-Mother: A Cultural Study of Biological Ties
Lara C. Perez-Felkner
Associate Professor of Higher Education and Sociology in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Florida State University
Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: Cultivating College Dreams: Social Pathways to Educational Attainment
Nadia Persun
Clinical Care Director and 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
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Copenhagen
Ph.D. 2017
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 Department of Health and Human Development Methodology Program of the Department of Psychology in Education, University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. 2018
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. Riedel
Chief Research Strategist at RDCL
Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: The Character Conjuncture: Islamic Education and its Social Reproduction in the United States
Kelsey London Robbins
Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Undergraduate Preceptor
Ph.D. 2021
Rosenwald 331A
humdev-preceptors@lists.uchicago.edu
Dissertation: Remaking Irish Catholicism: Moral Authority, Reproductive Politics, and the State
James Roney
Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences 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 Analyst at the US Government Accountability Office
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
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, College of Education, Michigan State University
Ph.D. 1998
Dissertation: Overcoming Challenges: Exploring the Role of Action, Experience, and Opportunity in Fostering Resilience among Adolescents
Coltan Scrivner
UX Researcher, Meta
Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation: The Psychology of Morbid Curiosity
Aaron T. Seaman
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-General Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa
Ph.D. 2016
Dissertation: Figuring Families: Caregiving in the Midst of Alzheimer's Disease
Nancy L. Segal
Professor of Psychology, California State University, Department of Psychology
Ph.D. 1982
Dissertation: Cooperation, Competition and Altruism Within Twin Sets: A Reappraisal
Raffaella Taylor Seymour
Junior Research Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation: Intimate Rites: Remaking Ancestors and Queerness in Zimbabwe
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
Associate 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 Amazon
Ph.D. 2011
Dissertation: Pragmatic Ethics, Sensible Care: Psychiatry and Schizophrenia in North India
Marianna Staroselsky
Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation: "I'm an actor, so you gotta go to therapy, right?" Theatre as Therapy for Contemporary American Identity Distress
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
Hilary Tackie
Race and Social Justice in Education Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers Graduate School of Education
Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation: DISRUPTION: Finding humanizing opportunities in the covid-19 impacted classroom
Margarita Tarragona
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
Associate 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
Elayne Vollman
Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Lake Forest
Ph.D. 2021
Research: early childhood education; socio-emotional development; cognitive development; early experience; stress/adversity; home environment; cross-cultural studies
Lauren S. Wakschlag
Professor and Vice Chair for Scientific & Faculty Development, 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 Professor, School of Social Work, Portland State University
Dissertation: Manufacturing Reality: Gender, Culture, and the Resolution of Everyday Moral Conflicts
Kimberly Walters
Associate 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 at Arizona State University
Ph.D. 2002
Dissertation: The Making of a Market Economy: The Institutional Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community
Talia Weiner
Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia
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
Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: Adolescent Adjustment and the Parent-Child Relationship
Jay Williams
Chief Diversity Officer, Adjunct Professor at Minneapolis Community and Technical College
Ph.D. 2013
Emily Wilson
Communications Analyst at the US Government Accountability Office
Ph.D. 2021
Dissertation: Friendly Welfare: Care after Austerity in Northern England
Maria Wong
Professor of Experimental Psychology at Idaho State University
Ph.D. 1992
Dissertation: Autonomy, Quality of Experience, and Academic Performance
Stanton Wortham
Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College
Ph.D. 1992
Dissertation: Participant Examples and Classroom Interaction
Shenghe (Lily) Ye
Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2021
RO 325B
Dissertation: Talking science to schools: Organizing the research-practice nexus in early 21st century American education