Faculty

Core Faculty

• Richard Bargdill
  I research habitual experiences of boredom; meaningful events in people’s lives including: Peak and Plateau experiences, aesthetic chills, environmental activism, and self-actualization.
• Alicia Borre
  Individual, familial and contextual factors associated with resilience in children and youth. Parenting processes and positive development; stress, coping and wellbeing.
• Ellen Carpenter
  Scholarship of teaching and learning: alternative grading schemes, undergraduate teaching assistants, personality traits conducive to successful online learning; faculty mentoring; DEI pedagogy. 
• Wendy Kliewer
  Social development of school-age children; stress and coping by children and parents; health behaviors; effects of violence on children; coping with illness and community violence.
• Fantasy Lozada
  Social and emotional development among African American and Latine families; culturally affirming and responsive school environments family cultural and socialization processes; culture and race-related experiences as a context for lifespan development; and psychophysiological correlates of emotion.
• Terri Sullivan
  Impact of peer victimization and witnessed violence on children’s social and emotional development; emotional and social competencies in adolescent development; school-based violence prevention program development and evaluation.
• Chelsea Williams 
  Positive development and well-being, particularly among Latine, African American and Multiracial youth and families; young children’s ethnic-racial identity and cultural experiences; ethnic-racial identity across the lifespan; ethnic-racial socialization and the role of families; psychological, educational, and health outcomes/disparities.
• Marcia Winter
  Child development in contexts of both acute and chronic stress; susceptibility and adaptation at individual, dyadic, and family group levels; parenting and family processes; biopsychosocial processes of child emotional and physical health.

Affiliate Faculty

• Amy Adkins
• Fazil Aliev
• Peter Barr
• Rosalie Corona 
  Primary affiliation: Clinical psychology (child/adolescent concentration)
  Emotional and behavioral adjustment of minority adolescents, particularly Latino youth; developing and evaluating interventions that promote adolescent health and resilience.
• Tracey Gendron
  Primary affiliation: Gerontology
  Professional identity development and career commitment of Gerontologists, education through community engagement and service-learning, aging anxiety, ageism and gerontophobia, LGBT aging and staff knowledge and quality of care.
• Shawn Jones
  Primary Affiliation: Counseling Psychology
  Research to understand the interplay between race-related risk and protective factors that influence Black youth and family wellbeing.
• Sally Kuo
• Bryce McLeod
  Primary affiliation: Child-clinical psychology (child/adolescent concentration)
  Research designed to promote understanding of how psychotherapy reduces dysfunction and promotes mental health in youth.
• Michael Southam-Gerow, Chair of Psychology Department
  Primary affiliation: Child-clinical psychology (child/adolescent concentration)
  Treatment of childhood internalizing disorders, evaluation of treatment outcome in real-world settings, developmental psychopathology research related to emotion understanding and regulation.
• E. Ayn Welleford
  Primary affiliation: Gerontology
  Successful aging, caregiver burden, coping with distress, adult mother-daughter relationships, and geriatric education.

Emeritus Faculty

• Barbara Myers
  Children and families of incarcerated parents; parenting children with autism spectrum disorders, disabilities, or other risk conditions; early intervention for young children with disabilities.