Alumni

Professor in the Department of Psychology at West Chester University
Ph.D. 1993

Dissertation:  Individual Differences in Reproductive Behaviors and Physiology in Rats

Research Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development
Ph.D. 1999

Dissertation: Children's understandings of everyday economic practices

Oral Historian at Narrative Portraits
Ph.D. 1994

Dissertation:  Bilingual Children in School: The Negotiation of Language Use in a First Grade Classroom

Instructor of Psychology at McHenry County College
Ph.D. 2003

Dissertation: What Women Want: The Role of the Social Environment on Romantic Partner Preferences

Assistant Professor of Psychology at The New School; Licensed clinical psychologist & Applied psychological anthropologist, in-sync
Ph.D. 2013

Dissertation:  Somatic Hope: Practice, Persuasion & the Body-Self in North American Yoga Therapy

McGill University, B.A. International Development Studies
Wayne State University, M.A. Medical Anthropology
Master's Thesis: Present Futures: Possibilities for Selfhood at Community Mental Health Centre in Detroit, Michigan

Interests: Medical anthropology, mental illness, recovery, forms of dependence, clinical ethnography

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

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

Research Associate, American Medical Association

Ph.D. 2021

Dissertation: “Making Ends Meet”: The Structuring Role of Financial Distress as Black and Latinx Emerging Adults Enter College