Faculty
Core Clinical Faculty
Jaime L. Anderson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Research interests include the conceptualization, assessment, and diagnosis of personality disorders, with particular focus on the use of dimensional trait models in understanding personality psychopathology. Dr. Anderson is the director of the Assessment of Personality Psychopathology Lab.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2025 doctoral admissions: NO
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Associate Director of Clinical Training
Research interests include adversarial allegiance in expert witness opinions, agreement among forensic evaluators, field reliability and validity of procedures used in forensic assessment.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2025 doctoral admissions: YES
Kiana Cano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include borderline personality disorder etiology, personality disorder taxonomy, and the assessment of personality pathology in youth.
Learn more about Dr. Cano's lab.Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2025 doctoral admissions: YES
Mary Alice Conroy, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Director of the Psychological Services Center
Research interests include forensic clinical psychology, risk assessment, civil commitment evaluations.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2025 doctoral admissions: NO
Charlotte Esplin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Broad research interests include women's health psychology, with a specific focus on couples, sexuality, gender equity, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and eating disorder treatment.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2025 doctoral admissions: YES
Craig Henderson, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Director of Clinical Training
Research interests include family psychology, juvenile substance abuse treatment, college student alcohol use, exercise-based interventions, advanced data analytic methodology.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2025 doctoral admissions: YES
Ryan Marek, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Research centers around health psychology and assessment psychology, with a particular focus in presurgical psychological assessment and how psychopathology predicts various medical outcomes.
Learn more about Dr. Marek and his lab.Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2025 doctoral admissions: YES
Chelsea Ratcliff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Dr. Ratcliff is Director of the Integrative Health Lab.
Research interests include health psychology; behavioral-and-mindfulness-based interventions; and understanding the relations among stress, physical health, psychosocial adjustment, and quality of life.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2025 doctoral admissions: YES
Jared R. Ruchensky, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include personality disorders (particularly psychopathy), the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders, forensic psychology, and psychological assessment of constructs relevant to forensic/correctional settings.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2025 doctoral admissions: NO
Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) Wood, Ph.D., ABPP
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include forensic assessment, psychometrics (especially of forensic assessment instruments), and the identification, assessment, and treatment of individuals with intellectual disability in criminal legal settings.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2025 doctoral admissions: YES
Associated Faculty Research Mentors
Hillary Langley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology and Associate Chair
Research interests include developmental psychology and children’s mental health; children’s eyewitness testimony and the impact of stress and anxiety on children’s memory for traumatic experiences; the protective effects of prosocial behaviors and emotions (e.g., empathy, gratitude) on children’s psychological well-being; and, the implementation of parental training programs focused on teaching parents how to effectively talk with their children about past stressful or traumatic experiences as well as children’s past behavioral transgressions.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2025 doctoral admissions: NO
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Daniella Cash, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research interests include a focus on social and cognitive psychology as it pertains to the legal system. This includes eyewitness testimony, jury decision-making, deception detection, and factors involving the recognition and perception of criminal events (e.g., instances of child grooming or sexual assault).
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2025 doctoral admissions: NO
Jorge G. Varela, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Department Chair
Research interests include cultural and linguistic (Spanish) diversity issues in forensic psychology, particularly forensic assessment. I also maintain professional interests in law enforcement psychology as well as military psychology.
Accepting/Reviewing applications for Fall 2025 doctoral admissions: NO
Additional Associated Faculty
James Crosby, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology;
Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ramona Noland, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology