Psychology
Our people
Department Chair
Associate Department Chair
Academic Department Associate
School Psychology Program Assistant
- Administrative Assistant II
- Graff Main Hall
- twirkus2@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5016
Neuroscience Director
- Assistant Professor
- Graff Main Hall
- tthakkar@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5235
Specialty areas:
Cochlear Implants; Psychoacoustics; Binaural Hearing
Full-Time Faculty
- Assistant Professor
- 349B Graff Main Hall
- bbasten@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6898
Specialty areas:
Cognitive Psychology (eyewitness memory; source memory)
Experimental design and statistics
- Associate Professor
- 335C Graff Main Hall
- mcary@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6884
Specialty areas:
Cognitive Psychology (strategy selection, problem solving, memory aids)
- Teaching Professor
- Graff Main Hall
- lcaya@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6895
- Professor
- 335B Graff Main Hall
- gdeason@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8442
Specialty areas:
Social Psychology (political psychology, gender)
- Assistant Professor
- 341L Graff Main Hall
- bgercekswing@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5236
Specialty areas:
Social and Cross-cultural Psychology (friendship, self-construal, honor/dignity and self-esteem)
- Assistant Professor
- 331E Graff Main Hall
- agoethel@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5239
- Assistant Professor - Psychology
- 341H Graff Main Hall
- aholte@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Research Methods
Social Psychology
- Associate Professor
- 331F UW La Crosse
- dhyson@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8444
Specialty areas:
Equity-Minded Teaching
School Psychology (especially Teacher-Student Relationships, Alternative Approaches to Working with Behaviorally Challenging Students, Systems-Level Data-Driven Decision Making)
- Professor
- 341P Graff Main Hall
- kkortenkamp@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8445
Specialty areas:
Psychology of Environmental Issues
Research Methods & Statistics
- Professor
- 341G Graff Main Hall
- tmarshik@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8625
Specialty areas:
Developmental and Educational Psychology (motivation, effective teaching and learning strategies, self-regulation, educational myths/misconceptions, information and science literacy, teacher-student relationships)
- Professor
- 341D Graff Main Hall
- rmckelley@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6879
Specialty areas:
Clinical/counseling psychology; men and masculinities; health psychology (stress, resilience; biofeedback; sleep); behavior modification; group counseling; psychopharmacology (i.e., drugs and behavior); workplace mental health
- Professor
- 335A Graff Main Hall
- jnewton@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6889
Specialty areas:
School Psychology; Assessment; Early Childhood Assessment and Intervention; Child & Adolescent Psychopathology
- Associate Professor
- 341C Graff Main Hall
- aobrien@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6886
Specialty areas:
Visual and auditory perception, Research methods, Teaching methods, Memory
- Assistant Professor
- 341F Graff Main Hall
- bqiao@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Bullying, Gratitude, Student-Teacher Relationship, Organizational Climate
- Professor
- 341N Graff Main Hall
- aquartiroli@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6897
Specialty areas:
Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology & Counseling
- professional training, development, and practice in sport psychologists,
- self-care and wellbeing in sport psychologists and other professionals,
- cultural competence, humility, and safety in psychology practitioners,
- identity in psychology practitioners,
- performance psychology in esports,
- organizational culture and wellbeing in sport and health organizations.
- Associate Professor
- 341E Graff Main Hall
- erozek@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6899
Specialty areas:
Gerontology, Lifespan Development
Cognitive Psychology (Neuropsychology)
Psych Hour (Fridays, 12:05-1:00)
- Assistant Professor
- 341M Graff Main Hall
- jschweigert@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5018
- Associate Professor
- Graff Main Hall
- esrinivasan@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6882
Specialty areas:
Developmental psychology thanatology (aid-in-dying, disenfranchised grief, ambiguous loss, prolonged grief disorder, COVID-19, medical ethics, writing tools for grief), gerontology (dementia, caregiving, intergenerational relationships, ageism), qualitative methods, applied research impacting community programming and policy development.
- Assistant Professor
- Graff Main Hall
- tthakkar@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5235
Specialty areas:
Cochlear Implants; Psychoacoustics; Binaural Hearing
- Associate Professor
- 341J Graff Main Hall
- ctobin@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6890
Specialty areas:
Clinical/Counseling Psychology; Child Abuse and Neglect; Sexuality (attitudes and experiences); Sexual Health; Sexual Abuse; Volunteer Experiences; Internship and Fieldwork Experiences
- Assistant Professor
- 331D Graff Main Hall
- sveerasamy@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6887
Specialty areas:
Counseling Psychology (racial identity, religious identity, multicultural education)
- Assistant Professor
- 331B Graff Main Hall
- jwu@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Applied Behavior Analysis and Gifted Education
- Associate Professor
- 341A Graff Main Hall
- kzabel@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6896
Specialty areas:
Social Psychology
Social Cognition
Part-Time Faculty
- Courtesy Scholar
- aferraboli@uwlax.edu
- Lecturer
- Graff Main Hall
- rkaiser@uwlax.edu
- Lecturer
- Graff Main Hall
- bmatheus@uwlax.edu
- Lecturer
- Graff Main Hall
- cmatson@uwlax.edu
- Lecturer
- Graff Main Hall
- jreiland@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8440
- Lecturer
- Graff Main Hall
- swhitemarsh@uwlax.edu