Psychology
Our people
Department Chair
- 329 Cartwright Center
- jnewton@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6889
Specialty areas:
School Psychology; Assessment; Early Childhood Assessment and Intervention; Child & Adolescent Psychopathology
Associate Department Chair
- 330C Cartwright Center
- erozek@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6899
Specialty areas:
Gerontology, Lifespan Development
Cognitive Psychology (Neuropsychology)
Psych Hour (Fridays, 12:05-1:00)
Academic Department Associate
- 327 Cartwright Center
- jfredrick@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8440
School Psychology Program Assistant
- Administrative Assistant II
- 327 Cartwright Center
- twirkus2@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5016
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
- Professor
- 257E Cartwright Center
- tblumentritt@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6883
Specialty areas:
Developmental & Educational Psychology
Psychometrics
Behavior Genetics
Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Associate Professor
- 257F Cartwright Center
- mcary@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6884
Specialty areas:
Cognitive Psychology (strategy selection, problem solving, memory aids)
- Professor
- 328D Cartwright Center
- gdeason@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8442
Specialty areas:
Social Psychology (political psychology, gender)
- Associate Professor
- 332E Cartwright Center
- rdixon@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6893
Specialty areas:
School Psychology, Response to Intervention (RtI), Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), Online Service Delivery
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Psychology Office Hours (349A GMH): LINK
- Assistant Professor
- 328A Cartwright Center
- bgercekswing@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5236
Specialty areas:
Social and Cross-cultural Psychology (friendship, self-construal, honor/dignity and self-esteem)
- Lecturer
- 257A Cartwright Center
- agoethel@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5239
- Associate Professor
- 257D Cartwright Center
- 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
- 332C Cartwright Center
- 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, teacher-student relationships)
- Professor
- 332D Cartwright Center
- 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
- 329 Cartwright Center
- jnewton@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6889
Specialty areas:
School Psychology; Assessment; Early Childhood Assessment and Intervention; Child & Adolescent Psychopathology
- Associate Professor
- 263 Cartwright Center
- aobrien@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6886
Specialty areas:
Visual and auditory perception, Research methods, Teaching methods, Memory
- Assistant Professor
- 330B Cartwright Center
- bqiao@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Bullying, Gratitude, Student-Teacher Relationship, Organizational Climate
- Professor
- 331A Cartwright Center
- 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
- 330C Cartwright Center
- erozek@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6899
Specialty areas:
Gerontology, Lifespan Development
Cognitive Psychology (Neuropsychology)
Psych Hour (Fridays, 12:05-1:00)
- Instructor
- 328B Cartwright Center
- jschweigert@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5018
- Associate Professor
- 330A Cartwright Center
- esrinivasan@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6882
Specialty areas:
Developmental psychology, gerontology (dementia, caregiving, intergenerational relationships, ageism), thanatology (aid-in-dying, disenfranchised grief, ambiguous loss, prolonged grief disorder, COVID-19, medical ethics, writing tools for grief), qualitative methods, applied research impacting community programming and policy development.
- Assistant Professor
- 332G Cartwright Center
- tthakkar@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5235
Specialty areas:
Cochlear Implants; Psychoacoustics; Binaural Hearing
- Associate Professor
- 330D Cartwright Center
- 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
- 331E Cartwright Center
- sveerasamy@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6887
Specialty areas:
Counseling Psychology (racial identity, religious identity, multicultural education)
- Associate Professor
- 332B Cartwright Center
- kzabel@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6896
Specialty areas:
Social Psychology
Social Cognition
Part-Time Faculty
- Lecturer
- 332A Cartwright Center
- cdangelo@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5017
- Lecturer
- 332F Cartwright Center
- cfehrenbacher@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5017
- Lecturer
- 327 Cartwright Center
- jreiland@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8440