Faculty

Meet the Psychology Faculty

Tim Kasser, Chair
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1994
"My primary interest concerns people's values and goals, and how they relate to quality of life."

Heather Hoffmann
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., State University of New York-Binghamton, 1989
"I am interested in the origins of patterns of sexual attraction and sexual arousal, in other words what turns people on and why."

Frank T. McAndrew
Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Maine, 1981
"I am also interested in environmental psychology, which is the study of the relationship between people and their physical environments, both natural and human-made."

Gail M. Ferguson
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 2006
"I am interested in cultural similarities and differences in children and adolescents' sense of self and well-being."

Alexander Varakin
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2006
"I am interested in how visual processes contribute to cognition as a whole, how cognition as a whole impacts visual processes and how these interactions are shaped by, and influence, the way we think about and act in the world."

Kelly Shaw
Instructor in Psychology and Gender and Women's Studies
Ph.D. candidate, Purdue University

Cooperating faculty from other programs

Diana Beck
Professor of Educational Studies
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1997
"In the summer of 2001, I helped sponsor and run a two-month Summer Science Camp for 80 Navajo children and 10 reservation teachers at Atsa Biyaazh Community School in Shiprock, New Mexico."

Frederick Hord
Professor of Black Studies
Ph.D., Union Graduate School, 1987
"My most immediate projects are in the areas of Black Studies theory, African American literary criticism, Black psychology traditions, and the status of Blacks in Latin America."

James Mountjoy
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D., McGill University, 1994

Esther Penick
Assistant Professor of Biology
Ph.D. Wayne State University, 2000

Jennifer Templeton
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D., Concordia University, 1993
"The focus of my studies is on learning, memory, and foraging behavior, and involves experimental work in the field and lab."

Emeritus Faculty
Gary R. Francois
Szold Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology

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