Faculty
Joseph Mikels, PhD
Community Program Director; Associate Professor, Community Psychology
Emotion-cognition interactions; aging and adult life-span development; social and emotional development; cognitive development; judgement and decision making
Bernadette Sanchez, PhD
Professor, Community Psychology
Positive youth development; youth mentoring; race, ethnicity, and culture; academic achievement and education
Joseph Ferrari, PhD
Professor, Community Psychology
Chronic procrastination; impostor phenomena; self-handicapping and attribution; attitude change & persuasion; community-based service-learning & volunteerism; community building & sense of community; recovery from addiction; health psychology and program evaluation; behavior analysis in the community
Megan Greeson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Community Psychology
Violence against women; community response to sexual assault; victims' help-seeking; collaboration; program evaluation; alternate settings and systems changes
Leonard Jason, PhD
Director of Center for Community Research; Professor, Community Psychology
Public policy; community-based interventions; chronic illness; Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome case definitions and pediatric epidemiology; addictions; recovery homes; re-integrating ex-offenders into the community; violence prevention
Susan Dvorak McMahon, PhD
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, CSH; Professor, Community Psychology
Building competencies of urban,
at-risk youth through school-based interventions; understanding risk and
protective factors at multiple levels; enhancing our educational
systems; violence prevention; program evaluation
LaVome Robinson, PhD
Professor, Community Psychology
Minority mental
health; health promotion; adolescent risk and protective factors;
adolescent violence and depression prevention; school-based
interventions
Affiliate Faculty
Luciano Berardi, PhD
Director of the McNair Scholars program
Young adulthood; educational access and attainment; mentoring; ethnic minority youth; transitions.
Olya Glantsman, PhD
Cultural Diversity, Improving Academic
Environments for Students and Faculty, Community Psychology Values, Substance
Abuse Recovery; Teaching of Psychology.
Howard Rosing, PhD
Executive Director of the Steans Center for Community Based Service learning
Urban food access; migration; economic restructuring; community health.
Emeritus Faculty
Christopher B. Keys, PhD
Empowerment of people with disabilities; culture and attitudes; community research methods; health policy.