Alumni

Senior Research Associate, Public Policy Associates
Ph.D. 2018

Dissertation: Narratives of Personal Experience in Early Parent-Child Interactions: Developmental Trajectories and Relations to Higher-Order Thinking

Emeritus Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica, Taipei
Ph.D. 1994

Dissertation:  The Socialization of Shame in Young Chinese Children

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

Teaching Fellow, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago

Ph.D. 2024

Psychological anthropology, imagination, altered states of consciousness, dreaming, Latin America, Amazonia