People

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

language creation; gestures; 

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

Research Associate, University of Michigan
Ph.D. 2024

Dissertation: The Double Binds of Crisis and Recovery: Constituting Space, Place, and Subjecthood in Flint, Michigan

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 

Dissertation: Learning Animacy Through Embodying Others: Plant Diets in the Peruvian Amazon

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