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Nadia Al-Dajani, Assistant Professor
nadia.aldajani@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Momentary risk and protective factors of suicidal thoughts
Lab: Risk Identification of Suicidal States to Inform Care (RISSC) Lab | View Research Profile
Konrad Bresin, Assistant Professor
konrad.bresin@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors, Addictions, Aggression, LGBTQ+ Health
Lab: Short-Term Intense Relief: Refining the Etiology of Dysregulation (STIRRED) Lab | View Research Profile
Sara Bufferd, Director of Graduate Studies in Clinical Psychological Science, Associate Professor
sara.bufferd@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Developmental psychopathology, Child psychology, Anxiety, Mood
Lab: Child Anxiety and Mood (CAM) Lab | View Research Profile
Cheri Levinson, Professor
cheri.levinson@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Personalized and digital treatments for eating disorders
Lab: Eating Anxiety Treatment (EAT) Lab | View Research Profile
Benjamin Mast, Professor
b.mast@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Clinical geropsychology, Depression and dementia, Neuropsychological assessment
Lab: Aging and Neuropsychology Lab | View Research Profile
Yara Mekawi, Assistant Professor
yara.mekawi@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Racism, Anti-racism, BIPOC mental health, Psychometrics
Lab: Challenging Ongoing Legacies of Racism (COLOR) Lab | View Research Profile
Tamara Newton, Vice Chair, Professor
tamara.newton@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Stress, Trauma, Emotion and health
Lab: Stress and Health Lab | View Research Profile
Clarissa Ong, Assistant Professor
clarissa.ong@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Process-based therapy, Acceptance and commitment therapy, OCD, Perfectionism
Lab: Process-Oriented Intervention Science (POIS) Lab | View Research Profile
Cara Cashon, Associate Dean for Graduate Education, Associate Professor
cara.cashon@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Infant cognition, Face processing, Cognitive development
Lab: Infant Cognition Lab | View Research Profile
Judith Danovitch, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor
j.danovitch@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Social cognitive development during early and middle childhood
Lab: Knowledge in Development (KID) Lab | View Research Profile
Daniel DeCaro, Associate Professor
daniel.decaro@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Motivation, Decision-making, Human governance
Lab: Constitutional and Cooperative Decision-Making Lab | View Research Profile
Marci DeCaro, Director of Graduate Studies in Psychological Science, Associate Professor
marci.decaro@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Cognitive processes supporting learning and education
Lab: Learning Sciences Lab | View Research Profile
Paul DeMarco, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Professor
paul.demarco@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Neural coding, Color perception, Visual neurophysiology
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Brendan Depue, Associate Professor
brendan.depue@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Neuroimaging of executive function
Lab: NeuroImaging Laboratory of Cognitive, Affective and Motoric Processes (NILCAMP) Lab | View Research Profile
Jasmine Ernst, Assistant Professor
j.ernst@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Executive function development, STEM learning, Quantitative methods
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Zijiang He, Professor
zijiang.he@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Visual perception and cognition
Lab: Visual Perception and Cognition Lab | View Research Profile
Maria Kondaurova, Associate Professor
maria.kondaurova@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Experimental phonetics/phonology, Hearing impairment, Linguistics
Lab: Language Acquisition Research and Exploration Lab | View Research Profile
Andrew Lynn, Assistant Professor
andrew.lynn.2@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Child development, Neuroscience, Attention, Math
Lab: Attention in NeuroDevelopment (AND) Lab | View Research Profile
Nicholaus Noles, Chair, Associate Professor
n.noles@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Child development, Social cognition, Person judgments, Concepts
Lab: Knowledge in Development (KID) Lab | View Research Profile
Ryan Coleman, Assistant Professor Term
ryan.coleman.1@louisville.edu
Research Areas: False memory, Language acquisition, Classroom learning
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Freya Edlin, Assistant Professor Term
freya.edlin@louisville.edu
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Lora Haynes, Departmental Director of Internships & Service Learning, Professor Term
lora.haynes@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Cognitive and social development
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Alison McLeish, Associate Professor Term
alison.mcleish@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Affective vulnerability in health and substance use
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Angela Pyle, Assistant Professor Term
angela.horn@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Learning strategies, Pedagogy & instructor training in higher education
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Christina Ralph-Nearman, Assistant Research Professor Term
christina.ralph-nearman@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Personalized digital therapeutics for eating disorders
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Edna Ross, Professor Term
edna.ross@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Pedagogical use of classroom technologies
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Irina Vanzhula, Assistant Professor Term
irina.vanzhula@louisville.edu
Research Areas: Eating disorder treatment
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Bernadette Walter, Director, Psychological Services Center, Professor Term
Christina Barragan, Executive Assistant (EAT Lab)
christina.barragan@louisville.edu
Tess Collins, Student Success Specialist
tess.collins@louisville.edu | 502-852-8810
Psychology undergraduate students can schedule a meeting with Tess here for academic guidance and career exploration (not academic advising).
Maggie Leahy, Graduate Student Coordinator
maggie.leahy@louisville.edu | 502-852-4364
Emerald Starr, Clinic Coordinator (Psychological Services Center)
emerald.starr@louisville.edu | 502-852-6782
Elizabeth Willis, Special Assistant to the Chair and Department Coordinator
Shawn Davis, Part-Time Lecturer
Kamryn Mattingly, Part-Time Lecturer
kamryn.mattingly@louisville.edu
George Martinez, Part-Time Lecturer
george.martinez.1@louisville.edu
Brooke Shriner, Part-Time Lecturer
Tanya Stockhammer, Part-Time Lecturer
tanya.stockhammer@louisville.edu
Ghazel Tellawi, Part-Time Lecturer
Tiarra Abell, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Michaela Ahrenholtz, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Shequanna Belizaire, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Mackenzie Bewley, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Lucy Block, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Juliet Bockhorst, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Kathryn Brook, Graduate Student (Psychological Science)
Mackenzie Brown, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Sara Buseman, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Alexis Cerrillos, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Loui Chang, Graduate Student (Psychological Science)
Angie Chou, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Lauren Chrzanowski, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Alex Cowand, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Claire Cusack, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Loie Faulkner, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
John Foley, Graduate Student (Psychological Science), Graduate Student Representative, GSC Representative
Lauren Hall, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science), Graduate Student Representative
Jonah Hickman, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Travis Hicks, Graduate Student (Psychological Science), Graduate Student Representative
Savannah Hooper, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Rowan Hunt, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Zoe Hynes, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Akira Isaac, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Amanda Jiang, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Avantika Kapadia, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Ani Keshishian, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Dilara Keşşafoğlu, Graduate Student (Psychological Science)
Kaelin Kinney, Graduate Student (Psychological Science)
Mei Ku, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Siraj Lyons, Graduate Student (Psychological Science), Graduate Student Representative
Rachael Moldow, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Julia Nicholas, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Khushboo Patel, Graduate Student (Psychological Science)
Noelle Peace, Graduate Student (Psychological Science)
Blake Peeples, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science), Graduate Student Representative
Ashley Phares, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Meg Powers, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Alyssa Rodriguez, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Luis Sandoval-Araujo, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Olivia Shaffer, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Natalie Spiva, Graduate Student (Psychological Science)
Jules Wackerle, Graduate Student (Psychological Science)
Maryam Ware, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Bianca Welikson, Graduate Student (Psychological Science)
Simone Williams, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Lizhu Yan, Graduate Student (Psychological Science)
Rakshitha Yelimineti, Graduate Student (Clinical Psychological Science)
Joseph Aponte
Ike Behar
John Birkimer
Stephen Edgell
Edward Essock
Sam Himmelfarb
Richard Lewine
Suzanne Meeks
Carolyn Mervis
Robert Meyer
Stanley Murrell
Irwin Nahinsky
John Pani
Heywood M Petry
John Robinson
Paul Salmon
Richard P. Smith
Barbara Stetson
Frederick Wightman
Janet Woodruff-Borden
Pavel Zahorik
Key Department Contacts
Chairperson
Nicholaus Noles
Phone number: 502-852-5955
Email address: n.noles@louisville.edu
Department Coordinator
Elizabeth Willis
Phone number: 502-852-0430
Email address: elizabeth.willis@louisville.edu
Psychology Student Success Specialist
Tess Collins
Phone number: 502-852-8810
Email address: tess.collins@louisville.edu
Schedule a meeting with Tess
Departmental Director of Internships & Service Learning
Lora Haynes
Phone number: 502-852-5949
Email address: lora.haynes@louisville.edu
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Judith Danovitch
Phone number: 502-852-4781
Email address: j.danovitch@louisville.edu
Director of Graduate Studies PhD program in Clinical Psychological Science
Sara Bufferd
Phone number: 502-852-9174
Email address: sara.bufferd@louisville.edu
Director of Graduate Studies: PhD program in Psychological Science
Marci DeCaro
Email address: marci.decaro@louisville.edu
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