Faculty Profiles (full-time faculty)

Click on a faculty member's name to view his or her profile (education, courses taught, research interests), or scroll through the entire faculty.

Basten, Bianca McKelley, Ryan Program Assistants:

Sheri Craig

Office: 335 Graff Main Hall
Phone: (608) 785-8440
Email: scraig@uwlax.edu

Teresa Znidarsich (School Psych)
Office: 347 Graff Main Hall
Phone: (608) 785-8441
Email: tznidarsich@uwlax.edu
Blumentritt, Tracie Morgan, Betsy (Department Chair)
Cary, Melanie Newton, Jocelyn
Caya, Lisa O'Brien, Alexander
Deason, Grace Oyster, Carol
DeBoer, Betty Sullivan, Sara
Dixon, Robert (School Psych Program Director) Tobin, Casey
Johnson, Emily  (on sabbatical S '13) Vaden, Russell
Kortenkamp, Katherine VanVoorhis, Bart
Marshik, Tesia Wang, Jennifer
Martin-Stanley, Charles  
  Emeritus Faculty

Faculty new to UW-L 2013-2014: Ellen Rozek, Erika Srinivasan, & V. Suthakaran


Forms for faculty:

Campus Absence Form (Complete at least one week in advance of proposed absence)

 

File the Campus Absence Form when any of the following apply:
    1)  some or all of the expense is to be paid with state funds;
    2)  a University vehicle is to be used for travel;
    3)  any of the reason for the absence is related to official business of the University.

 

Travel Funds Request

 

MES Request ($250 Allocation)

 

General (non-$250) MES Request

 

Teaching Assistant Registration Form PSY405 (faculty only)


Research Apprenticeship Registration Form PSY308 (faculty only)

 


Bianca Basten

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

Office:  349B Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6898
Email:  bbasten@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)(TX)

Office:  341J Graff Main Hall
Phone:
  (608) 785-6883
Email:
  tblumentritt@uwlax.edu

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(PA)

Office:  335C Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6884
Email:  mcary@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)

Senior Lecturer – M.S. (Auburn University)(AL)

Office:  331C Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6895
Email:  lcaya@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

Grace Deason

Personal webpage

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)(MN)Deason

Office:  335B Graff Main Hall
Phone: (608) 785-8440
Email:  gdeason@uwlax.edu

 Areas of specialization:

  • Social psychology
  • Political psychology

Research Interests:

  • Gender stereotyping and prejudice
  • Social and political attitudes and ideologies
  • Conceptions of the family
  • Work/life issues

Courses taught:

  • Social Psychology
  • Group Dynamics
  • Psychology of Women

Betty DeBoer

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

Betty BeBoer

Office:  341E Graff Main Hall
Phone: (608) 785-6891
Email:  bdeboer@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • School psychology
  • Developmental disabilities
  • Attachment issues
  • Behavior Management
  • Child and adolescent mental health

Research Interests:

  • Self concept in children with disabilities

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)(CO)

Office:  349A Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6893
Email:  rdixon@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 Advising CoordinatorEmily Johnson

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

Office:  341C Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6888
Email:  ejohnson@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)(WI)

Office:  341L Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-8445
Email:  kkortenkamp@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Experimental psychology
  • Cognitive psychology

Research interests:

  • Judgment & Decision making
  • Environmental studies

Courses taught:

  • Experimental psychology
  • Psychological Measurement
  • Environmental Psychology

Jon Marin

Lecturer – Ph.D. (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale)(IL)

Office:  331B Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-8440
Email:  jmarin@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Adult Clinical Psychology

Practice/Research interests:

  • anxiety and depression

  • resiliency, coping, and protective factors for psychopathology

Courses taught:

  • Abnormal
  • Personality Theory
  • Counseling Theories

Tesia Marshik

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. (University of Florida - Gainesville)childhood picture of tesia(FL)

Office:  341G Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-8625
Email:  tmarshik@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Educational Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology

Research interests:

  • Development of self-control and motivation

  • Teacher-student interaction

  • Intersubjective communication

Courses taught:

  • Educational Psychology
  • Lifespan Development

Charles R. Martin-Stanley

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

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

Office:  235 Morris Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-8116
Email:  cmartin-stanley@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)(TX)

Office:  331F Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6879
Email:  rmckelley@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 Morgan

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Betsy Levonian MorganProfessor – Ph.D. (University of California at Irvine)(CA)

Office:  335A Graff Main Hall  
Phone:  (608) 785-6885
Email:  bmorgan@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 regularly taught:

  • General Psychology
  • Group Dynamics
  • Honors
  • Psychology of Women

Jocelyn Horn Newton

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

Office:  341P Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6889
Email:  jnewton@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • School psychology
  • Intelligence testing

Research interests:

  • Assessing cognitive performance
  • Giftedness

Courses taught:

  • Educational Assessment

Alexander O'Brien

Personal webpageAlexander O Brien

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

Office:  341M Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6886
Email:  aobrien@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Perception
  • Learning & memory
  • Research methods

Research interests:

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

Courses taught:

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

Carol Oyster

(On 50% administrative leave as Chair of Ethnic & Racial Studies)

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

Office:  331G Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6882
Email:  coyster@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

Sara McFall Sulivan

Sara McFall Sullivan

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. (University of Louisville)(KY)

Office:  331G Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6897
Email:  ssullivan@uwlax.edu

Dr. Sullivan has retired from UW-L but will be teaching Life Span Development for the department.

 

 

Casey Tobin

Associate Professor – Ph.D. (University of Northern Colorado)(CO)

Office:  331D Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6890
Email:  ctobin@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

Russell Vaden

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. (The University of Memphis)(TN)Vaden

Office:  341K Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-8444
Email:  rvaden@uwlax.edu

 Areas of specialization:

  • Assessment and evaluation of behavioral and emotional difficulties
  • Assessment and evaluation of autism spectrum disorders
  • Assessment and evaluation of attention and executive functioning
  • Positive behavior intervention and support (PBIS)
  • Response to Intervention protocols (RtI)
  • Play therapy methods

Research interests:

  • Program evaluation in PBIS and RtI models
  • Parent child involvement and interaction
  • Teacher perceptions of intervention strategies

Courses taught:

  • School Psychology Role and Function
  • School Psychology Practicum
  • School Psychology Internship
  • Assessment of Personality and Emotional/Behavioral Disturbance
  • Psychological Measurement

Bart A. VanVoorhis

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

Office:  341D Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6892
Email:  bvanvoorhis@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
  • Introduction to Brain & Behavior

Jennifer Wang

Assistant Professor – Ph.D. (University of Washington)(WA)

Office:  341A Graff Main Hall
Phone:  (608) 785-6904
Email:  jwang@uwlax.edu

Areas of specialization:

  •  Multicultural and Diversity Psychology
  •  Social Psychology

Research interests:

  • Microaggressions
  • Racial Identity

Courses taught:

  • Cross Cultural Psychology
  • Culture and Mental Health
  • Social Psychology

Emeritus Faculty Psych faculty & staff ~ 1975

 

Robert Arthur

Lloyd Bogart

John Cleveland

Milton Dehn

Harry Gardiner

Clark Himmel

Chuck Moore

Jim Ryan

Louis Stamps

Sara Sullivan 

Edward Wood

  Back Row:  Harry Gardiner, Libby Nesselroad, John Cleveland, Jim Ryan, Mary Roose
Front Row:  Lloyd Bogart, Ed Wood, Kerry Nelson, Naomi Schmidt, Clark Himmel, Bob Arthur, Tom Harris, Judy Sapio, Linda Jorgensen Himmel

 


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