UW-L Psychology - Faculty Profiles

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Blumentritt, Tracie Newton, Jocelyn*
Cary, Melanie Ngo, Dung*
Caya, Lisa O'Brien, Alex*
Cerbin, Bill Oyster, Carol
DeBoer, Betty Satory, Beth
Dixon, Robert Sullivan, Sara 
Johnson, Emily, Chair Tobin, Casey*
Martin-Stanley, Charles VanVoorhis, Bart
Morgan, Betsy Levonian Wilson, Carmen
  Emeritus Faculty

*Designates full-time instructors new to UW-L for 2007-2008.

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Administrative Assistants: Lois Stuhr (335 Main) and Teresa Znidarsich (341 Main).

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Tracie Blumentritt

Associate Professor- Ph.D. (University of Houston)

Areas of specialization:

  • Human Development
  • Educational Psychology

 

Courses taught:

  • Lifespan Development
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Educational Psychology

Research interests:

  • Social Cognition and Stereotype Processing
  • Personality Development and Measurement

Melanie Cary
Associate Professor - Ph.D. (Penn State University) Research interests:
  • working memory and problem solving

 

Areas of specialization:
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology

 

 Courses taught:
  • General Psychology
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychology of Language
  • History and Systems

 

 

Lisa Caya

Coordinator of the Child & Youth Care Emphasis

 
Lecturer - ABD (University of Texas at Austin)

 

  
Areas of specialization
  • Developmental Psychology

 
 
Courses taught
  • Lifespan Development
  • Child Development 
  • Adolescent Psychology

 

  
Research interests
  • Attachment Theory

 

Bill Cerbin

Note - Dr. Cerbin is on 100% administrative leave from the Psychology Department and his office

 is located in the Provost's office (145 GMH).

 

Professor - Ph.D. (University of Chicago)

 

 Areas of specialization
  • Language and Cognition
  • Learning and Instruction

 
Courses taught
  • Educational Psychology
  • General Psychology

 

 Research interests
  • Development of pedagogical expertise
  • College student learning
  • Thinking and development

 

Betty V. DeBoer

Assistant Professor - Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Research interests

  • Substance use in children
  • Parent tutoring

Areas of specialization
  • School Psychology
  • Developmental Disabilities
  • Psychiatric Epidemiology

 

 Courses taught

  • Personality Theories & Personality Assessment (Graduate level)

  • Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

  • Empathic Listening

  • Practicum Supervision (Graduate)

  • Behavior Assessment and Management (Graduate)

  • Early Childhood (Graduate)

 
Robert Dixon

Assistant Professor – Ph.D.

(University of Northern Colorado)

Program Director of the School Psychology Program

Research Interests

  • Response to Intervention (RtI) in the schools

  • Crisis management in the schools

  • Life satisfaction, hope, and optimism in children

 

Areas of Specialization

  • The Practice of School Psychology

  • Educational Psychology

  • Response to Intervention at Middle & High School Levels

Courses Taught

  • Supervised Practicum in School Psychology

  • Introduction to School Psychology

  • Academic & Behavior Interventions

  • Psychological Measurement

  • Consultation in the Schools
Emily Johnson

Note: Dr. Johnson is the chair of the Psychology Department and for 2007-2008, Dr. Johnson is the advising coordinator for the Psychology Department.

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

Areas of specialization 
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Parenting
  • Family Relationships
  • Infancy
  • Adolescence

 

 Courses taught 
  • Child Development
  • Adolescent Development
  • Advanced Developmental Psychology
  • Psychology of Language

 

 Research interests 
  • Parent-child relationships
  • Adolescence
  • Social cognition
 

Charles R. Martin-Stanley

           Note: Dr. Martin-Stanley is an Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Studies
 

 Professor- Ph.D.

(State University of New York at Stony Brook)

Office:  235 Morris Hall
Phone:  785-8116
email:  martin-s.char@uwlax.edu

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

Areas of specialization

  • Social Psychology
  • Cultural Competence
  • Gerontology
Courses Taught
  • Theories of Personality
 

 

Betsy Levonian Morgan

Currently serving as the midwestern regional Vice President of Psi Chi    PSI CHI  - Midwestern Region INFORMATION

 

Note:  For 2007-2008, Dr. Morgan is on 75% administrative leave in the Provost's office (145 GMH -608-785-8159) and will be teaching one course in Psychology per semester.

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Professor - Ph.D. (University of California at Irvine) Courses taught
  • Group Dynamics
  • Honors
  • Psychology of Women
  • On occasion: General Psychology, Social Psychology, and Work & Family
Areas of specialization
  • Social Psychology
  • Gender Psychology
  • Attitude Psychology
Research interests
  • Career options for psych majors
  • Feminist attitudes
  • Attitude-behavior links
  • Work/Life policies

Jocelyn Horn Newton

Assistant Professor - Ph.D. (Ball State University - Muncie, Indiana)
  • Office:  349D Graff Main Hall  
  • Phone: 608-785-TBA
  • email:  TBA

Research interests

  • Assessing cognitive performance
  • Giftedness

Areas of specialization
  • School Psychology
  • Intelligence Testing

 

 Courses taught

Dung Ngo

Assistant Professor - Ph.D. (Saint Louis University)
  • Office:  331D Graff Main Hall 
  • Phone: 608-785-TBA
  • email:  TBA

Research interests

  • Vietnamese Mental Health Issues
  • Dementia & Gerontology

 

 
Areas of specialization
  • Cross Cultural Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology

Courses taught

  • Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Counseling Theory (Graduate)

Alex O'Brien

Lecturer - Ph.D. (Iowa State)
  • Office:  331F Graff Main Hall 
  • Phone: 608-785-TBA
  • email:  TBA

Research interests

  • Visual cognition

  • Cognitive neuroscience

  • Object and face recognition

  • Memory and perception

  Courses Taught
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Sensation & Perception

Carol Oyster

 Professor - Ph.D. (University of Delaware)  Areas of specialization
  • Social Psychology
  • Group Dynamics
  • Research Methodology and Analysis
  • Psychology of Women
 Courses taught
  • Social Psychology
  • Group Dynamics
  • Industrial Psychology
  • Human Sexuality
  • Psychology of Women
Research interests
  • Managerial power use
  • Racial prejudice and stereotyping
  • Women and firearms

Beth Satory

 Lecturer - Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  Areas of specialization
  • Educational Psychology
  • Motivation

 
 Courses taught
  • Educational Psychology
  • Adolescent Psychology
 Research interests
  • Self-directed learning
  • Individual variations

Sara McFall Sullivan

Assistant Professor - Ph.D. (University of Louisville)

Areas of specialization

  • Human Development
  • Gender-related Issues
Courses taught
  • General Psychology
  • Life Span Development
  • Adulthood and Aging
  • Psychology of Aging
  • Psychology of Women
  • Girls and Women in Sports
  • Gerontology
  • Environmental Psychology
 Research interests
  • Girls, women, and sports
  • Gerontology
  • Environmental psychology

Casey Tobin

Assistant Professor - Ph.D. (University of Northern Colorado) 
  • Office:  349B Graff Main Hall 
  • Phone: 608-785-TBA
  • email:  TBA

Research interests

  • Sexuality Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health

 

 
Areas of specialization
  • Counseling Psychology
  • Health Psychology

Courses taught

  • Abnormal Psychology
  • Counseling Theories

 Bart VanVoorhis
Associate Professor - Ph.D. (Iowa State University)
  • Office: 349B Graff Main Hall;
  • Psy 100 Office:  232 Graff Main Hall
  • Phone: 608-785-6892
  • email: vanvoorh.bart@uwlax.edu
Areas of specialization
  • Animal and Human Learning and Memory
  • Consciousness
  • Cognitive Psychology

 
Courses taught
  • General Psychology-Course Coordinator
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Learning and Memory
  • Physiological Psychology
  • Consciousness

 

 Research Interests
  • Semantic Priming
  • Perception Without Awareness

 

 Carmen Wilson VanVoorhis

Note: For the 2007-2008 academic year, Dr. Wilson will be on 50% administrative leave serving as the Chair of Faculty Senate.

Professor - Ph.D. (Iowa State University) Areas of specialization
  • Counseling Psychology
  • Gender-related Issues
  • Adolescent Issues (normal and abnormal development)

 

Courses taught
  • Psychological Measurement
  • Advanced Research Methods
  • Abnormal Psychology

 

 Research interests
  • Educational Assessment
  • Violence in straight and gay relationships
  • Adolescent risk behaviors
  • Attributions of rape

 

Emeritus Faculty

Robert Arthur Clark Himmel
 Lloyd Bogart Chuck Moore
John Cleveland Kerry Nelson
Milton Dehn Jim Ryan
Harry Gardiner Louis Stamps
  Edward Wood