Community Psychology Faculty

Faculty

Bernadette Sanchez, PhD

Community Program Director; 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

Joseph Mikels, PhD

Associate Professor, Community Psychology

Emotion-cognition interactions; aging and adult life-span development; social and emotional development; cognitive development; judgement and decision making

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

Douglas Cellar, PhD

I-O Program Director; Associate Professor, Community Psychology

Behavioral assessment; impact of cognition and personality variables on motivation and performance; training; employee development

Affiliate Faculty

Luciano Berardi, PhD

Director of the McNair Scholars program

Young adulthood; educational access and attainment; mentoring; ethnic minority youth; transitions.

Fr. Patrick McDevitt, PhD

Faculty of the School of Education

Psychology and spirituality; social justice.

Howard Rosing, PhD

Executive Director of the Steans Center for Community Based Service learning

Urban food access; migration; economic restructuring; community health.

Mona M. Shattell, PhD

Mental health of vulnerable populations; Psychiatric environments; CBPR methods.

Emeritus Faculty

Christopher B. Keys, PhD

Empowerment of people with disabilities; culture and attitudes; community research methods; health policy.