Faculty Profiles (full-time faculty)

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Basten, Bianca* Newton, Jocelyn
Blumentritt, Tracie Ngo, Dung
Cary, Melanie O'Brien, Alexander
Caya, Lisa Oyster, Carol
DeBoer, Betty Rindt, Jodie (SAA Program Director)
Dixon, Robert (School Psych Program Director) Sullivan, Sara
Johnson, Emily (Department Chair) Tobin, Casey
Kortenkamp, Katherine* VanVoorhis, Bart
Martin-Stanley, Charles Wilson, Carmen (on leave 2009-2010)
McKelley, Ryan  
Morgan, Betsy Levonian Emeritus Faculty

*Designates full-time instructors new to UW-L 2009-2010

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Program Assistants:

Lois Stuhr
Office: 335 Graff Main Hall
Phone: (608) 785-8440
Email: stuhr.lois@uwlax.edu		 Teresa Znidarsich (School Psych)
Office: 341 Graff Main Hall
Phone: (608) 785-8441
Email: znidarsi.tere@uwlax.edu

Bianca Basten*

picture of Dr. BastenAssistant Professor – Ph.D. (Washington University in St. Louis)

Office:  331E Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6898
Email:  basten.bian@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Experimental Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology

Research Interests:

  • Source memory
  • Eyewitness memory

Courses taught:

  • Experimental Psychology
  • Psychological Measurement

Tracie Blumentritt

Personal webpageTracie Blumentritt

Professor - Ph.D. (University of Houston)

Office:  349C Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6883
Email:  blumentr.trac@uwlax.ed

Areas of Specialization:

  • Human Development
  • School Psychology

Research Interests:

  • Social Cognition and Stereotype Processing
  • Personality Development and Measurement

Primary courses taught:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Educational Psychology

Melanie Cary 

Associate Professor – Ph.D. (Penn State University)Melanie Cary

Office:  335B Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6884
Email:  cary.mela@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Experimental Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology

Research Interests:

  • Working memory and Problem solving

Courses taught:

  • General Psychology
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychology of Language
  • History & System

Lisa Caya

Coordinator, Child and Youth Care Emphasis (CYC)

Lecturer – M.S. (Auburn University)
               ABD (University of Texas at Austin) 

Office:  331A Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6895
Email:  caya.lisa@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Developmental Psychology

Research interests:

  • Attachment Theory

Courses taught:

  • Lifespan Development
  • Infancy
  • Adolescent Psychology
  • Overview of Child Youth Care
  • Capstone in Child Youth Care

Betty DeBoer

Associate Professor – Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Betty BeBoer

Office:  341B Graff Main Hall
Phone: (608) 785-6891
Email:  deboer.bett@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • School psychology
  • Developmental disabilities
  • Attachment issues
  • Disabilities
  • Reading program evaluation

Research Interests:

  • Substance use in children
  • Parent tutoring
  • Self concept in children with cerebral palsy

Courses taught:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Empathic Listening
  • Personality Theories (undergraduate)
  • Personality Theories & Personality Assessment (Graduate)
  • Practicum Supervision (Graduate)
  • Behavior Assessment and Management (Graduate)
  • Early Childhood (Graduate)
  • Psychoeducational Collaboration and Consultation (Graduate)

Robert Dixon

Personal Webpage

Program Director, School Psychology ProgramRober Dixon

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. (University of Northern Colorado)

Office:  341A Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6893
Email:  dixon.robe@uwlax.edu 

Areas of specialization:

  • The Practice of School Psychology
  • Educational Psychology
  • Response to Intervention at Middle & High School Levels

Research Interests:

  • Response to Intervention (RtI) in the schools
  • Crisis management in the schools
  • Life satisfaction, hope, and optimism in children

Courses taught:

  • Supervised Practicum in School Psychology
  • Introduction to School Psychology
  • Academic & Behavior Interventions
  • Psychological Measurement
  • Consultation in the Schools

Emily Johnson

Psychology Department Chair
Psychology Department Advising CoordinatorEmily Johnson

Associate Professor – Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Office:  335A Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6888
Email:  johnson.emil@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Parenting
  • Family Relationships
  • Infancy
  • Adolescence

Research Interests:

  • Parent-child relationships
  • Adolescence

Courses taught:

  • School-aged Child
  • Adolescent Development
  • Orientation to the Psychology Major

Katherine Kortenkamp*

kortenkamp pictureAssistant Professor – Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Office:  335 Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-8445
Email:  kortenkam.kath@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Experimental psychology
  • Cognitive psychology

Research interests:

  • Judgment & Decision making
  • Environmental studies

Courses taught:

  • Experimental psychology
  • Psychological Measurement

Charles R. Martin-Stanley

Associate Dean, College of Liberal StudiesCharles R. Martin-Stanley

Professor – Ph.D. (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

Office:  235 Morris Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-8116
Email:  martin-s.char@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Social psychology
  • Cultural competence
  • Gerontology

Research interests:

  • Social inequality
  • Caregiving
  • Educational assessment
  • Kinship care
  • African American elderly

Courses taught:

  • Theories of Personality

Ryan McKelley

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin)

Office:  331E Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6879
Email:  mckelley.ryan@uwlax.edu 

Areas of specialization:

  • Counseling psychology
  • Health psychology
  • Psychological assessment

Research interests:

  • Behavioral health psychology
  • Stress, coping, and resilience
  • Men’s issues in seeking help
  • Nontraditional therapeutic interventions

Courses taught:

  • Health Psychology
  • Behavior Modification
  • Abnormal Psychology

Betsy Levonian Morgan

Personal webpage

Midwestern Region Psi Chi Vice President - MW Psi Chi Website Psi ChiBetsy Levonian Morgan

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Professor – Ph.D. (University of California at Irvine)

Office:  331F Graff Main Hall  (Psy 100 Office:  232 GMH)
Phone:  (608) 785-6885
Email:  morgan.bets@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Social psychology
  • Gender psychology

Research interests:

  • Career options for psych majors
  • Feminist attitudes
  • Attitude-behavior links
  • Work/life policies

Courses taught:

  • General Psychology
  • Group Dynamics
  • Honors
  • Psychology of Women
  • Social Psychology
  • Work & Family

Jocelyn Horn Newton

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. (Ball State University)Jocelyn Horn Newton

Office:  349D Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6889
Email:  newton.joce@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • School psychology
  • Intelligence testing

Research interests:

  • Assessing cognitive performance
  • Giftedness

Courses taught:

  • Educational Assessment

Dung Ngo

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. (St. Louis University)

Office:  349D Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-8444
Email:  ngo.dung@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Cross-cultural psychology
  • Clinical neuropsychology (Dementia)
  • Clinical psychology

Research interests:

  • Vietnamese mental health issues
  • Cross-cultural research
  • Dementia & gerontology

Courses taught:

  • Cross-cultural psychology
  • Cross-cultural human development
  • Culture and mental health
  • Clinical neuropsychology
  • Personality theories
  • Counseling theory (graduate)

Alexander O'Brien

Personal webpageAlexander O Brien

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. (Iowa State University)

Office:  349C Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6886
Email:  obrien.alex@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Vision
  • Learning & memory
  • Neuroscience
  • Research methods

Research interests:

  • Higher-level visual processes
  • Object and face recognition
  • Perception and memory

Courses taught:

  • General Psychology
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Sensation & Perception
  • Learning & Memory

Carol Oyster

(On 50% administrative leave 09-10 as director of Ethnic & Racial Studies)

Professor – Ph.D. (University of Delaware)Carol Oyster

Office:  341C Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6882
Email:  oyster.caro@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Social psychology
  • Group dynamics
  • Research methodology
  • Psychology of women

Research interests:

  • Managerial power use
  • Racial prejudice and stereotyping
  • Women and firearms

Courses taught:

  • Social Psychology
  • Group Dynamics
  • Psychological Measurement
  • Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology
  • Human Sexuality
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Jodie Rindt

Program Director, Student Affairs Administration Graduate Program

Senior Lecturer – Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Office:  136 Wittich Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6450
Email:  rindt.jodi@uwlax.edu

 

 

 

Sara McFall Sullivan

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. (University of Louisville)Sara McFall Sulivan

Office:  335C Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6897
Email:  sullivan.sara@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Human development
  • Gender-related issues

Research interests:

  • Girls, women, and sports
  • Gerontology
  • Women and aging
  • Aging among LGBT persons
  • Environmental psychology

Courses taught:

  • General Psychology
  • Lifespan Development
  • Adulthood and Aging
  • Psychology of Aging
  • Psychology of Women
  • LGBTIAQQ Studies
  • Girls and Women in Sports
  • Gerontology
  • Environmental Psychology

Casey Tobin

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. (University of Northern Colorado)

Office:  349B Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6890
Email:  tobin.case@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Counseling psychology
  • Sexuality

Research interests:

  • Sexuality studies
  • Child and adolescent mental health

Courses taught:

  • Abnormal psychology
  • Counseling theories
  • Human sexuality

Bart A. VanVoorhis

Associate Professor – Ph.D. (Iowa State University)Bart A. VanVoorhis

Office:  331C Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6892
Email:  vanvoorh.bart@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Animal and human learning and memory
  • Consciousness
  • Cognitive psychology

Research interests:

  • Synesthesia
  • Perception without awareness
  • Semantic priming

Courses taught:

  • Experimental Psychology
  • Learning & Memory
  • Physiological Psychology
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Consciousness
  • Brain Basics

Carmen Wilson VanVoorhis

(on full-time leave during the 2009-2010 academic year)photo of Carment Wilson VanVoorhis

Professor – Ph.D. (Iowa State University)

Office:  135 Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-8043
Email:  wilson.carm@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Counseling psychology
  • Gender-related issues
  • Adolescent issues (normal and abnormal development)

Research interests:

  • Educational assessment
  • Violence in relationships
  • Adolescent risk behaviors
  • Attributions of rape

Courses taught:

  • Psychological Measurement
  • Advanced Research Methods
  • Abnormal Psychology

Emeritus Faculty

Robert Arthur

Lloyd Bogart

Milton Dehn

Harry Gardiner

Clark Himmel

Chuck Moore

Jim Ryan

Louis Stamps

Edward Wood

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